American Humane Association Appoints Dr. Len Dalgleish as Senior Fellow in Its Child Protection Research Center

DENVER--(Business Wire)--
The American Humane Association today announced that Dr. Len Dalgleish of the
University of Stirling in Scotland has been named a senior fellow in the
American Humane Child Protection Research Center. Dalgleish is professor of
decision making in the university`s Department of Nursing and Midwifery, and he
heads the HealthQWest decision making research program.

The 131-year-old American Humane Association is the only national organization
dedicated to protecting both children and animals. Senior fellows in the
organization`s Children`s Division are scholars and practitioners who have
dedicated their careers to improving the status of children and have made
important and foundational contributions related to American Humane initiatives
in the field of child protection. They are a key resource for American Humane
and make direct contributions to the organization`s work.

The American Humane Child Protection Research Center, under the direction of
John Fluke, Ph.D., focuses on fundamental issues in public child protective
services and develops policies and practices to address them. A primary area of
attention is improving the assessment and decision-making process within the
system, with the goal of making better decisions that, in turn, lead to
substantially improved outcomes for children in care.

Dalgleish received his bachelor`s degree in mathematics and statistics and then
an honors degree and a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Queensland in
Australia. In 1981, he moved to the Department of Social Work at the University
of Queensland where his interest in applied decision making flourished around
the assessment of risk and decision making in child protection cases. In 1988,
he moved to the School of Psychology at the university, where he further
developed his model for judgment and decision making across a wide variety of
applied settings. In 2005, he was appointed to the chair in decision making in
the Department of Nursing and Midwifery at Stirling University and as program
head at HealthQWest, which is a research effort focused on decision making in
health care.

He has been a keynote speaker at numerous international conferences, where he
has shared his research on decision making and its applications to child
protection, nursing philosophy, climate forecasting and legal judging. He has
presented at more than 40 Australian and international conferences and has
published three books and more than 30 scholarly papers. He has served on the
editorial boards of The Australian Psychologist and Child Abuse Review and is
currently on the editorial board of Medical Decision Making.

Dalgleish joins Dr. Patricia Schene of Littleton, Colo., as a senior fellow in
the American Humane Child Protection Research Center, and Michael Doolan, who is
a fellow in American Humane`s National Center on Family Group Decision Making.
Schene, appointed in 2007, has worked for more than 30 years in the field of
child and family services as a state administrator, private agency director,
researcher and professor. Doolan, appointed in 2006, provides expertise to
child-welfare and youth justice authorities in U.S. and Canadian communities,
and formerly was adjunct senior fellow at the School of Social Work and Human
Services at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. For more
information about American Humane`s Children`s Division, visit
www.americanhumane.org/children.

About American Humane

Founded in 1877, the American Humane Association is the only national
organization dedicated to protecting both children and animals. Through a
network of child and animal protection agencies and individuals, American Humane
develops policies, legislation, curricula and training programs to protect
children and animals from abuse, neglect and exploitation. The nonprofit
organization, headquartered in Denver, raises awareness about The Link® between
violence to people and violence to animals, as well as the benefits derived from
the human-animal bond. American Humane`s regional office in Los Angeles is the
exclusive authority behind the "No Animals Were Harmed"® end-credit disclaimer
on film and TV productions, and American Humane`s office in Washington, D.C., is
an advocate for child and animal protection at the federal and state levels. The
American Humane® Certified farm animal program is the nation`s original
independent certification and labeling program for humanely raised food
(www.thehumanetouch.org). American Humane meets the strong, comprehensive
standards of the Better Business Bureau`s Wise Giving Alliance, has been awarded
the Independent Charities of America`s "Best in America" Seal of Approval and
has met the stringent standards for financial efficiency and accountability
required by the American Institute of Philanthropy to qualify as a Top-Rated
Charity. Visit www.americanhumane.org to learn more.

American Humane Association
Randy Blauvelt, 303-925-9442
randyb@americanhumane.org

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