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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)
• Martin, Rowhani-Rahbar, and Lanfear Receive 2020 UW Awards of Excellence in Teaching (5/2/2020)
• 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)
• UW Public Policy Doctoral Student Nicole Kovski and CSDE Affiliates Hill, Mooney and Rowhani-Rahbar Co-author Study on Child Maltreatment (2/1/2021)
• Rowhani-Rahbar and Co-Authors Explore Barriers to Randomized Trials Among Patients with Firearm Injuries in Recent Study (11/19/2021)
• 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)
• Rowhani-Rabhar, Hill, and Co-authors Publish Review Article on Income Support Policies and Firearm Violence (7/22/2022)
• Mooney, Hill, Rowhani-Rabhar, and Co-Authors Continue Exploring the Connection Between EITC and Firearm Violence in New Publication (9/2/2022)

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Ali Rowhani-Rahbar is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and the Bartley Dobb Professor for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Washington. He is the Co-Director of the Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program, Leader of the Violence Prevention Section, and Director of the Research Core at the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center. The overarching goal of his research is to inform programs, practices, and policies that prevent the occurrence, reduce the lethality, and stop the recurrence 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 injury and crime. He has served on the board of directors of the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research and the editorial board of Injury Prevention.