Faculty Profile
Rebeccah Sokol, PhD, MSPH
- Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
- Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
- Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
Rebeccah Sokol, PhD, is a behavioral scientist who studies youth trauma exposure. Her overarching research agenda seeks to ease the burden of adversity experienced in childhood and adolescence, with a central focus on reducing youth violence exposure and involvement. Sokol uses a developmental lens, public health framework, quasi-experimental methods and data science techniques to inform strategies that prevent youth trauma. A common thread of Sokol's research involves describing risk and identifying etiological factors for youth firearm violence exposure in different populations, with the ultimate goal of improving firearm injury and violence prevention interventions and policies.
- PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2019
- MSPH, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2016
- BS, Central Michigan University, 2014
- social determinants of health
- youth
- violence prevention
- firearm injury
Email: rlsokol@umich.edu
Office: 734-936-4894
Address: 2734 SSWB
1080 S University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Areas of Expertise: Child Health, Firearm Injury Prevention