Integrating Data from Health and Criminal Legal Systems to Inform Public Health and Safety Interventions

Integrating Data from Health and Criminal Legal Systems to Inform Public Health and Safety Interventions

January 28, 2022

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Virtual Event, Open to Penn affiliates

Join Ali Rowhani-Rahbar as he discusses the utility of integrating data from the health and criminal legal systems to study firearm-related harm and its contribution to informing public health and public safety programs and policies.

Co-sponsored with the Penn Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, MD, PhD, MPH

University of Washington

 

Ali Rowhani-Rahbar is the Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Washington. The goal of his research is to inform equitable and population-level programs and policies that reduce the occurrence and lethality of inter-personal violence and self-directed harm. His epidemiologic studies have spanned across multiple forms of violence with a specific focus on firearm-related harm. Dr. Rowhani-Rahbar received a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Washington, an MD from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, and his Master’s of Public Health in Epidemiology from Yale University.