Elizabeth Coppola knew she wanted to make a difference for military service members, veterans and their families when she saw friends deploy as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom after high school and later return to civilian life. Now a health scientist with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and an associate research scientist in the Yale School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Coppola has continued the work she began during her graduate education in the Purdue University Department of Human Development and Family Science, to better understand rates and patterns of intimate partner violence in relation to military status using data from the Department of Defense-funded Millennium Cohort Family Study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,9],"tags":[263,1161,2274,1063,1012,2277,240,1949,180,2276,163,2275],"class_list":["post-44530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-human-development-and-family-studies","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-department-of-human-development-and-family-science","tag-elizabeth-coppola","tag-intimate-partner-violence","tag-military-family-research-institute","tag-millennium-cohort-family-study","tag-purdue-university","tag-sharon-christ","tag-shelley-macdermid-wadsworth","tag-u-s-department-of-veterans-affairs","tag-veterans","tag-yale-school-of-medicine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n