Kerri Raissian, MPA, PhD

I am a Senior Research Associate at the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and a member of YSPH’s Firearm Injury Prevention Team. My research focuses on understanding policies and strategies to reduce violence and injury. As a child and family policy scholar, my work emphasizes understanding how policies may reduce family violence and increase family well-being. I am also keenly interested in understanding how to reduce firearm related injury and death – both in an outside of the family.

A hallmark of my work is its interdisciplinary nature. I draw on principles from program evaluation, economic demography, and applied microeconomics. I also employ a team approach to my work and enjoy working with colleagues across disciplines and sectors. I am currently working with prosecutor’s office around the country to evaluate prosecutor led initiatives - with the hopes of learning how to make domestic violence prosecution more effective and efficient for victims, defendants, and communities.

I am also a Sr. Fellow at the Niskanen Center and a Criminal Justice Research Fellow at Arnold Ventures. In both roles, I look for ways to continually improve our criminal justice system through the use of rigorous evidence.