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The National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence

In 2005, the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence was one of eight Comprehensive Centers chosen as a National Academic Center of Excellence on Youth Violence by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Currently, the CDC funds ten Academic centers of excellence. Contact information for each center’s Principal Investigator (PI) follows.  Additional information regarding Academic Centers of Excellence can be obtained from the CDC by clicking here.

Columbia University
Bruce Link, PhD
Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health
722 W. 168^th St. Suite 1609
New York, NY 10032
Telephone: 212.305.4547
Email: bgl1@columbia.edu

Harvard University
David Hemmenway, PhD
Harvard School of Medicine
Health Policy and Management
677 Huntington Avenue, Kresge 309
Boston, MA 02115
Telephone: 617.432.4493
Email: hemmenway@hsph.harvard.edu

Johns Hopkins University
Philip Leaf, PhD
Bloomberg School of Public Health
624 North Broadway St.
Baltimore, MD 21205
Telephone: 410.955.3962
Email: pleaf@jhsph.edu

University of California, Berkeley
Franklin Zimmering, JD
Center on Culture, Immigration and Violence Prevention
383 Boalt Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Telephone: 510.642.0854
Email: Zimering@law.berkeley.edu

Universityof California, Riverside
Nancy Guerra, PhD
Presley Center for Crime and Justice
110 College Building South
Riverside, CA 92521
Telephone: 951.827.4604
Email: Nancy.guerra@ucr.edu

University of Hawaii, Manoa
Earl Hishinuma, PhD
John A Burns School of Medicine
1356 Lusitana St. 4^th Floor
Honolulu, HI 96813
Telephone: 808.586.5906
Email: hishinumae@dop.hawaii.edu

University of Illinois, Chicago
Deborah Gorman Smith, PhD
Institute of Juvenile Research
Department of Psychiatry
1747 W. Roosevelt Rd.
Chicago, IL 60608
Telephone: 312.413.1888
Email: debgs@uic.edu

Virginia Commonwealth University
Albert Farrell, PhD
Department of Psychology
Box 842018
Richmond, VA 23284
Telephone: 804.828.8793
Email: afarrell@mail1.vcu.edu

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Joel Fein, MD, MPH
Joseph Stokes, Jr. Research Institute
3615 Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4318
Telephone: 215.590.1944
Email: fein@email.chop.edu

Meharry Medical College
Paul D. Juarez, PhD
1005 Dr. D.B. Todd, Jr. Blvd
Nashville, TN 37208
Telephone: 615.327.5506
Email: pjuarez@mmc.edu