Helene Berman, RN, PhD, is a Distinguished University Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University. Her program of research, funded by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and Status of Women Canada, has focused on the subtle and explicit forms of violence in the lives of girls and young women. In recent years, she has extended that work to include boys and young men and led a CIHR Team Grant, Promoting Health through Collaborative Engagement with Youth: Overcoming, Resisting and Preventing Structural Violence (www.voicesagainstviolence.ca). She presents her work nationally and internationally, publishes widely, and is a Past President of the Nursing Network on Violence against Women International. She is a co-editor of the anthology, Faces of Violence in the Lives of Girls (Althouse Press, 2014) and is the recipient of the Nursing Network on Violence against Women International 2015 Excellence in Research Award. With a lengthy history of community-based research, Dr. Berman played a lead role in the establishment of the Centre for Research on Health Equity and Social Inclusion and currently serves as the Centre's founding Academic Director.