~ RGVRC Affiliate Scholar ~

Lauren A. Magee, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Indianapolis. Magee’s interdisciplinary research intersects the fields of public health and criminal justice. It focuses on how social determinants of health, poverty, and neighborhood dynamics influence firearm violence and other health outcomes among adolescents and young adults. Her research takes a mixed-methods approach by leveraging police and healthcare data linked at the individual level and qualitative interviews with firearm injury survivors to identify intervention opportunities. Recently, her work has examined the health and health outcomes among people exposed to firearm injury, particularly siblings and children of survivors. She received her PhD in criminal justice from Michigan State University in 2018. She completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Division of Children’s Health Services Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine in 2020.