Julie Kafka
Doctoral Student
Department of Health Behavior
About
Julie M Kafka, PhD, MPH conducts applied violence prevention research, with particular focus on intimate partner violence, firearm violence, and suicide. She uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to explore and evaluate policy and systems-level solutions to prevent violence before it starts, to support survivors of violence, and to intervene with perpetrators and/or high-risk populations.
Research Activities
- Intimate partner violence
- Suicide
- Social determinants of health
- Mixed methods research
- Supervised machine learning
Education
- MPH, Health Behavior, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2018
