Lisa Geller

Senior Advisor for Implementation, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

~ RGVRC Affiliate Scholar ~

Lisa Geller, MPH, is the senior advisor for implementation at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions and the co-lead of the Johns Hopkins National ERPO Resource Center (ERC). Geller’s work focuses on research, advocacy, and implementation of evidence-based gun violence prevention policies, including extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) and domestic violence protective orders. As the co-lead of the ERC, Geller provides training and technical assistance to law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, clinicians, community organizations, and others involved in the ERPO process. Geller is also a mayoral appointee on the District of Columbia’s Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board. Geller graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in political science. She earned a master of public health (MPH) in health policy and injury and violence prevention from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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A Critical Opportunity for Extreme Risk Protection Order Implementation

June 22, 2023

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act included the first federal funding for the implementation of extreme risk protection orders. Continue Reading...


Reducing Domestic Violence with Gun Violence Prevention Policies

October 25, 2022

Guest contributor Lisa Geller outlines five evidence-based policies that, if equitably and efficiently implemented, can prevent domestic violence. Continue Reading...