Moore Center Staff

Elizabeth J. Letourneau, PhD, is the director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and a professor in the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. For more than 30 years she has conducted research involving the evaluation of clinical practice and legal policy related to adult and adolescent sexual offending. Specifically, she has developed and/or evaluated assessment tools for juvenile and adult sexual interest in children and sexual recidivism risk.

Dr. Letourneau has contributed substantively to the literature on treatment of sexual offenders, including leading the largest randomized controlled trial evaluating an intervention for youth who have sexually offended. She has served as primary investigator on six studies evaluating adult and adolescent sex crime policies, findings of which have been presented internationally (e.g., to INTERPOL), nationally to U.S. Department of Justice Agencies (e.g., U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement), cited in federal and state court cases including three state supreme court cases and provided as testimony to state and federal policy makers. She has served as president for the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuse, the largest international member organization that focuses on the prevention of sexual abuse and sound policy and practice with people who have offended or at risk to do so.

As the inaugural director of the Moore Center, a research and policy center focused on the prevention of sexual abuse, she has turned her focus to the primary prevention of child sexual abuse. She currently heads three research studies that focus on developing primary prevention interventions targeting at-risk populations for child sexual abuse.

Our Team

	Amanda Ruzicka, MA Deputy Director
	Luciana Assini-Meytin, PhD Deputy Director
	Rebecca Fix, PhD Assistant Professor
	Scott Hubbard Senior Research Associate
	Ericka Muempfer, MA Research Associate
	Aengus Ó Dochartaigh Outreach Director
	Abigail R. DeSilva, MSW Senior Research Program Coordinator
	Christina Knepper, LCSW-C Research Assistant/ Interventionist
	Joanna Schofield Associate Director of Development
	Yi Sun, MPH, MS Research Data Manager

Postdoctoral Fellows 

• Ian McPhail, PhD
• Evelyn Thorne, PhD
• Allyn Walker, PhD