Lori Toscano Featured on the Public Health Insight Podcast

Lori Toscano, the JPRC’s Director of Justice Technical Assistance, was featured in a two-part series on the Public Health Insight (PHI) Podcast. PHI is a public health organization committed to modernizing evidence-informed public health communication, education, and knowledge translation. The PHI Podcast is a weekly podcast ranked in the top 5% of all podcasts globally.

Part 1: Lori Toscano, Director of Justice Technical Assistance at WestEd, discusses career development in criminal justice and violence prevention, the importance of data, community involvement, and how her passion for community violence intervention (CVI) informs her work. Listen to A Meticulous Career In Criminal Justice & Violence Prevention.

Part 2: Gun violence is now a leading cause of death in many demographics, but how do you intervene when many of the underlying causes don’t have anything to do with guns in the first place? Lori Toscano, Director of Justice Technical Assistance at WestEd, discusses using data analytics and machine learning to identify and address risk and protective factors for community violence. The conversation covers the Violence Prevention Navigation Framework (VPNF), WestEd’s new framework that leverages 70 community-level indicators to guide deeper root cause analysis and to prioritize interventions. Listen to Deconstructing Community Violence With Big Data & Machine Learning.