Informed by over a decade of battling infectious diseases in Africa and honed by years of careful implementation in North America, Dr. Gary Slutkin is now treating the serious public health problem of urban violence in the US and internationally. Through a unique approach that treats violence as an infectious disease, his CeaseFire model is eradicating the norm of violence in the most dangerous of urban areas. CeaseFire finds hot spots of gun violence and trains former perpetrators to disrupt armed conflicts and educate the community about the consequences of violent behavior. Gary is now working on spreading internationally; as of the middle of 2009, CeaseFire is moving close to launching in Brazil, Mexico and Jamaica.