Deborah Azrael is an American

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the det ...

researcher. She is a research associate in the

Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first ...

's Department of Health Policy and Management, and the associate director of the

Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher l ...

. She is also the research director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and a major figure involved in the firearm-related research conducted there.

Education

Azrael received her B.A. from

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...

in 1983, her M.S. from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1994, and her Ph.D. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

in 2001.

Research

Azrael is known for studying

gun violence Gun-related violence is violence committed with the use of a firearm. Gun-related violence may or may not be considered criminal. Criminal violence includes homicide (except when and where ruled justifiable), assault with a deadly weapon, a ...

and

gun ownership Gun ownership is the status of owning a gun, either legal or illegal. In 2018, Small Arms Survey reported that there are over one billion small arms distributed globally, of which 857 million (about 85 percent) are in civilian hands.mass shooting There is a lack of consensus on how to define a mass shooting. Most terms define a minimum of three or four victims of gun violence (not including the shooter or in an inner city) in a short period of time, although an Australian study from 200 ...

s in the United States, and found that the rate of these shootings tripled from 2011 to 2014.

Personal life

Azrael is the daughter of political scientist Jeremy R. Azrael, who died in 2009 and was known for his expertise on the Russian economy. She is married to Tom Stoddard.

References

External links

Faculty page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Azrael, Deborah Living people Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty Radcliffe College alumni Gun violence researchers Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni Year of birth missing (living people)