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CSDE Committees: Executive Committee Member

CSDE Research Areas:

• Environments and Populations
• Health of People and Populations

In the News:

• Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Addresses Gun Violence and Policy in Editorial (10/31/2017)
• Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Addresses Gun Violence Research and Funding in New Editorial (3/30/2020)
• Ali Rowhani-Rahbar and Heather Hill Awarded U01 to Investigate EITC and Violence Prevention (10/8/2018)
• Ali Rowhani-Rahbar appointed Bartely Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence (4/9/2018)
• Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Discusses Planning for Gun Violence (11/21/2017)
• Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Examines Loaded Handgun Carrying Behaviors in the US (10/24/2017)
• Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Finds that Many Older Adults Keep Guns Unlocked and Loaded (4/23/2019)
• Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Publishes New Study on Handgun Carrying Behaviors Among Rural Youth (1/31/2020)
• Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Publishes Study of Firearm Training (7/18/2017)
• Anjum Hajat and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Examine Changes in Firearm Behavior Among Gunshot Wound Patients (9/26/2019)
• CDC Awards First Round of Firearms Research to CSDE Affiliate Rowhani-Rahbar and CSDE Alum Kravitz-Wirtz (10/3/2020)
• CSDE Affiliates Awarded UW Population Health Initiative Pilot Research Grants (3/25/2018)
• CSDE Research Scientist Leibbrand and CSDE Affiliate Rowhani-Rahbar Co-author Study on Gun Violence and Depression (2/1/2021)
• Hill & Rowhani-Rahbar Publish Invited Commentary in JAMA Network Open (2/18/2022)
• Hill, Mooney, Rowhani-Rahbar, and Collaborators Study Effects of Child Tax Credits on Maltreatment in New Publication (6/13/2022)
• Martin, Rowhani-Rahbar, and Lanfear Receive 2020 UW Awards of Excellence in Teaching (5/2/2020)
• Mooney, Hill, Rowhani-Rabhar, and Co-Authors Continue Exploring the Connection Between EITC and Firearm Violence in New Publication (9/2/2022)
• Panel on Youth Violence (4/9/2018)
• Population Health Initiative COVID-19 Grants Catalyzed UW Research Community (3/23/2021)
• Rebecca Rebbe, Joe Mienko, and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar Publish Papers on Prenatal Substance Exposure and Child Protection (2/15/2019)
• Rowhani-Rabhar, Hill, and Co-authors Publish Review Article on Income Support Policies and Firearm Violence (7/22/2022)
• Rowhani-Rahbar and Co-Authors Explore Barriers to Randomized Trials Among Patients with Firearm Injuries in Recent Study (11/19/2021)
• Rowhani-Rahbar Receives Funding to Support Further Research on Reducing the Impact of Firearm-related Harm on People’s Lives (5/14/2023)
• UW Public Policy Doctoral Student Nicole Kovski and CSDE Affiliates Hill, Mooney and Rowhani-Rahbar Co-author Study on Child Maltreatment (2/1/2021)

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Ali Rowhani-Rahbar is the Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence, Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine, Adjunct Professor in the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, and Interim Director of the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, at the University of Washington. He evaluates community-based interventions, social programs, and public policies for their impact on multiple forms of violence with a particular emphasis on preventing firearm-related harm. His research on violence prevention has been funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Department of Justice, Arnold Ventures, National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research, Fund for a Safer Future, State of Washington, and City of Seattle. His more than 200 peer-reviewed publications have informed practice and policy locally and nationally. He received his MD from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in Iran, MPH from Yale University, and PhD from the University of Washington. He completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University and research fellowship at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.