Gun Violence as a Public Health Problem: What We Know, and Where We Are Going

Please join us April 23, 2025 for a lecture by Dr. Megan L. Ranney, Dean of the Yale School of Public Health and C.-E. A. Winslow Professor of Public Health and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Ranney's topic is "Gun violence as a public health problem: What we know, and where we are going."

Dr. Megan L. Ranney is an emergency physician, researcher, and national advocate for innovative approaches to public health. Her research focuses on developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions to prevent violence and related behavioral health problems, and on COVID-related risk reduction. She has held multiple national leadership roles, including as co-founder of GetUsPPE during the COVID-19 pandemic and Senior Strategic Advisor to AFFIRM at the Aspen Institute, focused on ending gun violence through a non-partisan public health approach. She was previously the Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine, Deputy Dean of the School of Public Health, and Founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health at Brown University. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, a Fellow of the Aspen Health Innovators’ Fellowship, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

She earned her bachelor's degree in history of science, graduating summa cum laude, from Harvard University; her medical doctorate, graduating Alpha Omega Alpha, from Columbia University; and her master’s degree in public health from Brown University. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine and a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research at Brown University.