Why a Smörgåsbord of Interventions Won't Solve Violence: An Applied Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction in Scotland

Deputy head of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit (SVRU). The SVRU utilises a public health methodology to reducing violence and is a member of the World Health Organization's Violence Prevention Alliance. Will holds responsibility for research and analysis and has served with the unit since its foundation in 2005. He has been involved in many of the unit's key projects including the development of the homicide/deaths database, gangs programme, Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV), injury surveillance, Mentors in Violence Prevention, as well as providing much of the research in support of the violence reduction strategy for Scotland. Will specialises in behavioural and geographic analysis of violence and has received a number of awards from the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) and the National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA) for his work. Will is a visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.