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Changing the Narrative on Firearms Violence: A Community Collaborative Intervention
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Dr. Michael Long is a Co-Investigator for the George Washington University Changing the Narrative on Firearms Violence project and a member of the Policy, Implementation and Economics Workgroup for the CFVP Network.
Dr. Long is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Prevention and Community Health. He conducts research at the intersection of epidemiology and quantitative policy analysis with the goal of identifying cost-effective and politically feasible policy solutions to promote community health. Since 2016, he has been conducting research and providing policy advice to support the expansion of school behavioral health services in Washington, DC, which gained support as a preventive response to firearm death in the district. As a Co-Investigator on the George Washington University project team (PI: Edberg), Dr. Long will provide expertise on economic evaluation of the team’s firearm injury prevention intervention. Prior to joining the faculty at GW in 2015, Dr. Long was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health focused on obesity epidemiology and cost-effectiveness analysis at the Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research Center. He earned his Doctor of Science degree in 2013 from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Social and Behavioral Sciences and a Master of Public Health degree from the Yale School of Public Health. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics from Princeton University.
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