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Cassandra Crifasi, PhD

Cassandra Crifasi
  • Assistant Professor

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Contact Information

624 N. Broadway
Hampton House 593
Baltimore, Maryland 21205

443-287-8040

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Education

PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2014
MPH, Drexel University School of Public Health, 2010
BS, Central Washington University, 2006

Overview

Dr. Crifasi is an injury epidemiologist focused on policies, procedures, and practices that improve safety and prevent injury. Her research interests include occupational injury epidemiology, violence prevention, firearm policies, and evaluation of policy changes on public safety.

Honors and Awards

NIH Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program Award, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, 2017 – 2019

The Jess Kraus Award in 2016 – Injury Epidemiology, 2017

Phi Beta Kappa - Alpha Chapter of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, 2015

The Alison Snow Jones Prize, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2014

Susan P. Baker Scholarship in Injury Prevention, Johns Hopking Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2013

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Pre-Doctoral Fellowship - Occupational Injury Epidemiology and Prevention, 2013 and 2010

National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Pre-Doctoral Training Fellowship - Interdisciplinary Research Training on Violence in the Family, 2012 and 2011

Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health, Beta Omega Chapter, Drexel University, 2010

  • Occupational injury prevention and control
  • violence epidemiology and prevention
  • health policy
  • firearm policies

Selected publications

  • Crifasi CK, Merrill-Francis M, McCourt A, Vernick JS, Wintemute GJ, Webster DW. Association between Firearm Laws and Homicide in Large, Urban U.S. Counties. Journal of Urban Health
  • Crifasi, C.K., Merrill-Francis, M., Webster, D.W., Wintemute, G.J., Vernick, J.S. 2018. Law Matters: Enforcement of Comprehensive Background Check Laws in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Injury Prevention
  • Crifasi CK, Doucette ML, McGinty EE, Webster DW, Barry CL. 2018. Storage Practices of U.S. Gun Owners, 2016. American Journal of Public Health, 108(4), 532-537.
  • Crifasi CK, Buggs S, Choksy S, Webster DW. 2017. The Initial Impact of Maryland’s Firearm Safety Act of 2013 on the Supply of Crime Guns in Baltimore. The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 3(5), 128-140.
  • Crifasi CK, Pollack KM, Webster DW. 2016. Assaults of Law Enforcement Officers in the Line-of-Duty: Situational Contexts and Predictors of Lethality. Injury Epidemiology, 3 (29).

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