Ron Prinz, director of the Parenting Family Research Center at the University of South Carolina, will speak about preventing child maltreatment April 20.

Titled “Embedding Child-Maltreatment Prevention in a Population Approach to Parenting and Family Support,” it will be the Patricia F. Waller Lecture.

It will be held at 3:30 p.m. at the Stone Center Auditorium. A reception will follow.

The lecture will focus on the prevention of child maltreatment and injuries.

The Waller lecture is held every year in memory of Patricia Waller, a professor who founded the University’s Injury Prevention Research Center and was a pioneer in injury control.

She worked for almost 20 years as a researcher at the University’s Highway Safety Research Center, where she developed graduated licensing, a concept that was adopted nationwide.