Stephen P. Teret is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. As the second independent, degree-granting institution for research in epi ...

, where he is also Associate Dean for Education and Faculty Development. He is also the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Law and the Public’s Health.

Education

Teret received his J.D. from the

Brooklyn Law School Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is a private law school in New York City. Founded in 1901, it has approximately 1,100 students. Brooklyn Law School's faculty includes 60 full-time faculty, 15 emeriti faculty, and a number of adjunct faculty. Brookly ...

in 1969 and his M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1979.

Career

Before enrolling in Johns Hopkins, Teret worked as a personal injury lawyer in upstate New York. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty after receiving his M.P.H. from there in 1979. One of his former students at Johns Hopkins was

Garen Wintemute Garen J. Wintemute is an emergency medicine physician at UC Davis Medical Center, in the US state of California, where he is the director of the Violence Prevention Research Program. He conducts research in the fields of injury epidemiology and the ...

. In 1995, Teret was the founding director of Johns Hopkins'

Center for Gun Policy and Research The Center for Gun Policy and Research is a research center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health dedicated to researching ways to reduce gun violence in the United States. The center's current director is Daniel Webster, and its ...

, and served as director from then until 2001.

Research

Teret has been 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, and ...

and gun policy from a

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 ...

perspective since 1979. He is particularly well-known for his work on smart guns, which he became interested after a baby whose family he knew was killed by another child with a gun.

References

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