Christopher Morrison

Christopher Morrison is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and seeks to understand how social and physical environmental conditions affect population health, particularly injuries, alcohol use, and alcohol-related harms. His ongoing work examines the impacts of ridesharing services on motor vehicle crashes, built environments on firearm violence, and retail alcohol availability on alcohol consumption. Dr. Morrison was previously a faculty member at Columbia University, where he taught Spatial Epidemiology, directed the Geospatial and Applied Prevention Science laboratory, and served as Training Coordinator for the Substance Abuse Epidemiology Training Program. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Penn Injury Science Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a doctoral visiting scholar at the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Berkeley, California. He holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology from Monash University, Australia.