Justin Heinze, PhD

Dr. Heinze is the director of the School Safety Section and co-director of the Research and Scholarship Core at the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Dr. Heinze is an educational psychologist with a concentration in measurement, evaluation, and statistics. Dr. Heinze’s research investigates how schools influence disparities in violence and other risk outcomes from an ecological perspective that includes individual, interpersonal, and contextual influences on development. He is particularly interested in structural features of school context and policy that perpetuate inequity in violence and firearm outcomes, but also how these institutions can serve as a setting for intervention. He is the Director of the National Center for School Safety, the faculty lead for Public Health IDEAS for Preventing Firearm Injury, and principal investigator of the Healthy Minds Study.