Tia Palermo
Bio:
Tia Palermo is assistant professor in the Graduate Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University (SUNY). She holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research on gender-based violence has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and has been covered by the media, including The New York Times, CNN, NPR, and BBC News.
In January 2011, The Economist published the number of women raped in six conflicts, including an estimate of 500,000 women raped in the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Many readers may have taken these statistics at face value. In fact, however, estimates of rape in Rwanda range from 250,000 to 500,000 and are based on the number of reported pregnancies from rape, which underestimates prevalence.
