http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:53:21 GMT Connecting you with the University of Missouri’s innovative research and creative activity http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/109 Citing an analogy used by those in public health fields, Tina Bloom explains that health providers wait on the banks of the river to rescue people who have fallen in and are drowning. But Bloom wants to help more and help earlier. “At some point, you start to think about what’s happening upriver,” she says. As an assistant professor in the Sinclair School of Nursing, her research focuses on safety planning for women in abusive relationships; specifically, she is designing and testing a website that might help women find ways to lessen their danger. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://www.syndicatemizzou.org/articles/show/109 (Jessica Huang)