Lindsay Stark is an associate professor at Washington University's Brown School, St. Louis. She is an internationally recognized expert on the protection and wellbeing of women and children in situations of extreme adversity, and has over a decade of experience leading applied research in Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East. Lindsay's particular area of expertise is measuring sensitive social phenomena and evaluating related interventions that seek to reduce violence, abuse and exploitation of women and children. Prior to joining the Brown School, she was an associate professor at Columbia University where she served as director of research for the Program on Forced Migration and Health and director of the CPC Learning Network. Currently, Lindsay is leading a mixed methods study (The Study of Adolescent Lives after Migration to America (SALaMA)) to assess the mental health and psychosocial well-being of adolescents resettled to the U.S. from Arab-majority countries. SALaMA also aims to identify sources of daily stress and identify sources of resilience in order to strengthen supports for this population. Additionally, she is leading a series of analyses of the Centers for Disease Control's national Violence Against Children studies to support an upcoming Lancet Series on the relationship between gender norms and health. Furthermore, Lindsay is supporting the development of an inter-agency measure to evaluate self-reliance of refugee households as they emerge from dependency on international humanitarian aid. She obtained her Dr.PH. from Columbia University, USA.