Firearms, Intimate Partner Violence, and Suicide

Julie Kafka: Intimate Partner Violence and Subsequent Violent Deaths

Julie M Kafka, Ph.D, MPH is a postdoctoral scholar with the Firearm Injury and Policy Research Program at the University of Washington. Her research is dedicated to the prevention and interruption of intimate partner violence, with a focus on policy implementation and the role of firearms in violence escalation. The goal of her work is to conduct applied research that can help support victim-survivors while also addressing abusive behaviors by the people who perpetrate harm. Dr. Kafka will be transitioning to work as an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado’s Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative in the fall.

Evan Goldstein: Characterizing Female Firearm Suicide Circumstances: Leveraging Text, Natural Language Processing, and Large Language Models

Evan V. Goldstein, Ph.D, MPP, is an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the University of Utah’s Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine. A health policy researcher and population health scientist, much of Dr. Goldstein’s research focuses on the effects of public policy and socioeconomic factors on suicide death—especially suicide deaths involving firearms—in communities that are underserved and underrepresented in our society and science.

Tami P. Sullivan: Intimate Partner Violence and Firearm Threats

Tami P. Sullivan, Ph.D, is Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine and in the Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health. Dr. Sullivan's program of research is centered on individual- and system-level factors that affect the wellbeing of victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), with specific attention to daily processes and micro-longitudinal designs. At the individual level, Dr. Sullivan's work advances understanding of the relationships among IPV and its highly prevalent negative outcomes such as mental health and substance use problems, to inform the development of preventive interventions that promote safety and resilience.