April Zeoli, PhD, MPH, University of Michigan, United States of America
April Zeoli is Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy and Policy Core Director with the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention at the University of Michigan. Much of her research has focused on the implementation and impacts of laws allowing or mandating firearm removal when protective orders for domestic violence and extreme risk are issued. Dr. Zeoli is also interested in extreme risk protection orders (or "red flag laws") impact on firearm violence, including suicide. The goals of her research are to provide evidence on whether and how firearm safety policies reduce firearm violence and to improve the implementation of these laws through science.
Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States of America
Daniel Webster is Professor of American Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he is Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Dr. Webster has published widely on the impacts of gun policies on homicides, suicides, and gun trafficking and led studies of community violence intervention programs and intimate partner violence. He is the lead editor and contributor to Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) and a member of both the National Academy of Medicine and the Council on Criminal Justice’s Working Group on Violent Crime.
Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, PhD, MPH, University of California, Davis, United States of America
Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz is Assistant Professor in Residence at the University of California, Davis and faculty member with UC Davis’s Violence Prevention Research Program. Dr. Kravitz-Wirtz's research focuses on the social and policy determinants, consequences, and prevention of community violence and related health outcomes over the life course and across generations. She is particularly focused on structurally-rooted chronic stressors in neighborhood context and their impacts on violence. Her applied work incorporates efforts to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of hospital-based violence intervention programs.
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