Justin Heinze, PhD

Justin Heinze is currently an associate professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity in the School of Public Health and holds appointments with the Combined Program in Education and Psychology and Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention. His research investigates how schools influence disparities in violence and other risk outcomes from an ecological perspective that includes individual, interpersonal, and contextual influences on development. He is particularly interested in structural features of school context and policy that perpetuate inequity in violence and firearm outcomes, but also how these institutions can serve as a setting for intervention.