Eunice Rendon is an expert in violence and crime prevention, bioethics and in innovation on youth-based strategies for social development. She is the general director of Interministerial Coordination at the Ministry of Home Affairs in Mexico, where she coordinates policies, programs and actions related to crime and violence prevention. Prior, she was general director of International Affairs and as general director of special projects in the Ministry of Health. At the National Center for Crime Prevention, she held the position of high level liaison officer for the federal strategies in Ciudad Juárez and Acapulco. Rendon earned a Ph.D. in political sociology and public policy from the Institut d´Études Politiques de Paris and a master's degree in medical and psychosocial ethics from the WHO-PAHO Interdisciplinary Center of Bioethics Studies of the U.S. Health National Institute.
This talk is part of a series of speeches and discussions from the Conference on Violence and Policing in Latin American and U.S. Cities. The conference was hosted and organized by the Program on Poverty and Governance at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Presentation: http://stanford.io/1rRDJ81. For more information on the Program on Poverty and Governance, please visit http://povgov.stanford.edu and follow #PovGov on Twitter.