Dr. Bernadette Hohl is senior research investigator with the Penn Injury Science Center (PISC) at the University of Pennsylvania. She works collaboratively in the Philadelphia Department of Public Health’s Injury Prevention Program to plan, manage, and implement gun violence prevention research and evaluation activities for the city. She has over 20 years of violence prevention practice and research experience, including delivering community health education programs, managing large scale state and federal programmatic and research grants, and supervising teams of site coordinators providing services to at-risk youth and families. Her research focuses on place-based violence prevention approaches that center the lived experience. She employs mixed methods, community-engaged approaches, and epidemiological study designs to study risk and protective factors for violence and test interventions to improve health and safety for communities that experience high rates of violence and structural disadvantage. Hohl secured state funding to establish the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center and has been supported by public and private extramural funding agencies including the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Her work has been presented at national and international scientific meetings and appears in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals.