Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau
Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau is a Professor in the Department of Mental Health, and Director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For more than 35 years she has focused on child sexual abuse prevention, practice, and policy. Dr. Letourneau’s work has attracted approximately $35 million in grants and gifts and resulted in more than 120 scientific papers and chapters and the edited volume What Works with Sex Offenders: Contemporary Perspectives in Theory, Assessment, Treatment and Prevention. She has advised the European Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the World Bank, and other government, corporate, and NGO entities focused on the prevention of child sexual abuse and exploitation. Her research on sex offender registration policies has been cited in several U.S. state supreme court cases, by state legislatures, and by the American Law Institute. Her work has appeared in numerous media, including Bloomberg Bews, National Public Radio, Rolling Stones Magazine, TEDMED, and TIME. Dr. Letourneau is the 2022 recipient of the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse (ATSA) Lifetime Achievement Award.
