~ RGVRC Affiliate Scholar ~

Stephen Hargarten received his MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin (1975) and his MPH from Johns Hopkins (1984). He is professor of emergency medicine, founding dean of global health, and the founding director of the Comprehensive Injury Center (CIC) at the Medical College of Wisconsin.  Dr. Hargarten’s research interests reflect an intersection of injury and violence prevention and health policy to address the burden of this complex biopsychosocial disease. His work in linking data systems for understanding violent deaths helped to inform the development of CDC’s National Violent Death Reporting System.  He leads ballistics investigations with bullets linked to civilian deaths and injuries.  He has been recently been awarded a National Endowment of Humanities grant (with colleagues at Wesleyan University) to study gun safety patents (from 1750–2010).  He has been actively engaged in implementing the Cardiff Model in the Western Hemisphere.

Dr. Hargarten was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars and was elected to the Institute of Medicine, (now the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)) of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), in 2011.  He was the founding president of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR).  He currently serves on the Community Preventive Services Task Force of the CDC as vice-chair.