Postdoctoral Fellowships
Our program is dedicated to addressing the leading cause of pediatric mortality by providing post-doctoral research training on the prevention of firearm injuries among children and teens.
T32 Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens (FACTS): Multidisciplinary Research Training Program
The Institute was awarded a National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)-funded T32 Training Grant in 2022. This grant addresses the critical need to build a continuous pipeline of research scientists focused on addressing the leading cause of pediatric mortality by establishing the nation’s first post-doctoral program providing research training on the prevention of firearm injuries among children and teens.
The overarching goal of this program is to build a diverse cadre of research scholars with two-year multidisciplinary training in the science of pediatric firearm injury prevention that will allow them to develop academic careers as independent research scientists making significant contributions to our understanding of this public health disease, as well as to developing and rigorously testing evidence-based prevention strategies. Learn more about the program.
Applications for postdoctoral fellowship positions beginning in 2025 are now open. Click here to learn more and apply
Fellows acquire core skills in research methods through a combination of formal training and applied research experiences, supported by highly engaged mentors and a cohort of fellows with the aim of developing academic careers as independent researchers.
The training program engages MD and PhD scholars to progress towards research independence through three interrelated training activities:
training acquired through formal coursework, research seminars, workshops, and distinguished faculty lectures;
applied research experiences conducted under the guidance of highly qualified and engaged mentoring faculty; and
the preparation of a formal research project and/or grant proposal.
Postdoctoral fellows come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and are particularly interested in research addressing inequalities, disparities, and inequities related to firearm injury.
Our Approach
Given the early state of the field, the program utilizes a collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and multi-method approach that emphasizes:
- the need to establish foundational knowledge and methodological skills in pediatric firearm injury prevention science;
- the analysis of empirical data and a focus on theory building; and
- the use of multi-disciplinary approaches to advance stronger team science methods in the field.
Our program capitalizes on the breadth and depth of the research laboratories, clinical settings, academic programs, experienced faculty, and linkages to multiple research networks and centers at the University of Michigan to provide an unparalleled training environment for this training.
Fellows also receive training in the responsible conduct of research and methods to ensure scientific rigor and reproducibility in their work. They are supported by a team of mentoring faculty and a cohort of fellows.
Mentoring Faculty
Multi-disciplinary faculty from across U-M’s campus are potential mentors for postdoctoral fellows in the research training program.
Cleo Caldwell, PhD
Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health
Mentorship focus areas: racial health disparities and community violence interventions
Patrick Carter, MD
Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Mentorship focus areas: community violence, intimate partner violence, suicide, unintentional injury
Amy Cohn, PhD
Professor, Health Management and Policy
Mentorship focus areas: engineering solutions for complex public health problems
Peter Ehrlich, PhD
Professor, Surgery
Mentorship focus areas: firearm injury data, hospital-based firearm injury recovery
Jason Goldstick, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Mentorship focus areas: analysis of longitudinal and spatially dependent data
Justin Heinze, PhD
Associate Professor, Health Behavior and Health Education
Mentorship focus areas: school violence prevention, school shootings
Todd Herrenkohl, PhD
Professor, School of Social Work
Mentorship focus areas: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Hsing-Fang Hsieh, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
Mentorship focus areas: community violence, school/mass shooting
Luke Hyde, PhD
Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Mentorship focus areas: adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), epigenetic, mental health, firearm violence outcomes
Mark Ilgen, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry
Mentorship focus areas: adolescent firearm suicide risk
Amy Kilbourne, PhD, MPH
Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Mentorship focus areas: implementation science
Cheryl King, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Mentorship focus areas: adolescent suicide prevention
Daniel Lee, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Institute of Firearm Injury Prevention
Mentorship focus areas: community violence, racial health disparities
Julie Lumeng, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Mentorship focus areas: translation research, child/adolescent development
Sean Esteban McCabe, PhD, MSW
Professor, Nursing
Mentorship focus areas: large-scale national data analysis, adolescent substance use and firearm risk behaviors
Alison Miller, PhD
Professor, HBHE, School of Public Health
Mentorship focus areas: child and adolescent development, influence of stress, poverty, and parenting on health and mental health outcomes
Inbal (Billie) Nahum-Shani, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Institute for Social Research
Mentorship focus areas: m-health methods, adaptive trial designs
Lisa Prosser, PhD, MS
Research Professor, Pediatrics
Mentorship focus areas: health services research methods, cost-benefit analyses
Ken Resnicow, PhD
Irwin Rosenstock Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public
Mentorship focus areas: motivational interviewing, behavioral intervention development, health disparities, m-health interventions
Deborah Rivas-Drake, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Mentorship focus areas: racial/ethnic identity formation, health disparities, socio-emotional learning, social network analyses, school violence prevention
Joseph Ryan, PhD
Professor, School of Social Work
Mentorship focus areas: adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), firearm-related juvenile justice outcomes, analysis of state administrative datasets
Rebeccah Sokol, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
Mentorship focus areas: community violence
Sarah Stoddard, PhD, RN
Professor, Health Management and Policy, Nursing
Mentorship focus areas: adverse childhood events (ACEs), youth violence, community violence interventions
Maureen Walton, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Mentorship focus areas: community violence
Lisa Wexler, PhD, MSW
Professor, School of Social Work
Mentorship focus areas: youth suicide prevention, rural Alaskan Native populations, community-based participatory research
Doug Wiebe, PhD
Professor, Epidemiology, Emergency Medicine, School of Public Health
Mentorship focus areas: community violence
Susan Woolford, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Mentorship focus areas: technology-enhanced behavioral intervention development, health disparities, translation and implementation of interventions
April Zeoli, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
Mentorship focus areas: Intimate Partner Violence
