John D FlukeJohn D Fluke, PhD, is Associate Director for Systems Research and Evaluation at the Kempe Center with appointments as Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA, and the Department of Epidemology at the Colorado School of Public Health. His research focuses on child protection decision making and child maltreatment epidemiology. He is known internationally for his research involving child welfare administrative data analysis, workload and costing, and performance and outcome measurement for children and family services. For the US government as well as local governments, foundations, and international entities he has been PI or key staff for numerous projects. He participates in ongoing international efforts to improve the global capacity to understand the epidemiology of child maltreatment. He is the author or co-author of many peer reviewed publications, as well as numerous edited books, book chapters and reports.