Professor Heidi Stöckl is a Professor of Public Health Evaluation at the medical faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany. She has more than 20 years of experience in researching the epidemiology of intimate partner violence, violence-related mortality and human trafficking, including studies on the prevalence and health effects of intimate partner violence among the general population, pregnant and older women, the global prevalence of intimate partner homicide and perpetrators of child homicide, trafficking for sexual exploitation and forced marriage in Uzbekistan and China. Heidi’s research mainly consists of large scale survey data analysis and evidence synthesis, and her primary research has included a cohort study of adult women in Tanzania, a randomized control trial in South Africa, cross-sectional surveys of young men in Tanzania, penal file analyses, and qualitative and methodological work in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Europe. Heidi conducted the first prevalence study on intimate partner violence during pregnancy in Germany and is currently embarked on a birth cohort study on the short and long-term impacts of violence during pregnancy in Bangladesh.