Jennifer Necci Dineen is an associate professor in residence at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy. She is a survey methodologist with an interest in understanding the role of stakeholders in policy and intervention uptake. Her research focuses on education policy (school mental health and career and technical education) and gun violence prevention.

Dineen is co-director of the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy’s Gun Violence Prevention Research Interest Group and the associate director of ARMS (Advancing Research, Methods, and Scholarship in Gun Violence Prevention). She earned her doctoral degree in political science at the University of Connecticut.