~ RGVRC Affiliate Scholar ~

Vivek Ashok, MD, MSHP, is a general pediatrician at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, dual-trained in internal medicine and pediatrics. His research focuses on developing and evaluating community- and healthcare–partnered strategies to prevent firearm carriage and injury, advancing accurate and equitable policymaker narratives around firearm injury on social media, evaluating and improving the implementation of policies related to firearm access, and translating evidence into advocacy through broad, cross-sector coalitions.