Patricia (Trish) Jewett is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She earned her PhD in Population Health Sciences from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A naturalized US citizen, she spent the first two thirds of her life in Germany, and that background often shapes her views, research, and the approach she takes. While most of her doctoral and postdoctoral research was related to cancer survivorship, she started pivoting toward firearm injury and violence-related topics in 2020, and this work is now fully her focus. Her violence-related work has centered around suicide prevention in various populations, including research on suicidal ideation and behaviors among ethno-racially marginalized youth as well as research on voluntary out-of-home firearm storage to reduce suicide among rural populations; social determinants of health; and research on the work of community-violence interrupters. Since she became an assistant professor in fall 2024, she has been working on building a research agenda to create rural firearm safety alliances and overcome partisan polarization around firearm- and violence-related topics.