Danielle Poole, ScD, MPH

Dr. Danielle (Dani) Poole is the Director of Research at the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab and a Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Research Fellow at the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is a population health scientist notable for her contributions to the evidence base for violence prevention and mitigation. Dr. Poole’s international work includes leveraging remote sensing to conduct humanitarian needs assessments and to quantify patterns of war, including attacks on healthcare. Domestically, Dr. Poole leads research identifying and mitigating risk factors for firearm injuries with a focus on children in Connecticut and Tennessee.

To address these lines of inquiry, Dr. Poole applies methodological approaches spanning the epidemiological, geospatial, and biostatistical sciences. Findings from her work have been featured at numerous conferences, including meetings of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as peer-reviewed and popular media publications.

Dr. Poole completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Neukom Institute for Computational Science of Dartmouth College. She earned a ScD from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, an MPH from Brown University, and a BA from Seattle University.