Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Faculty

Daniel Webster
Associate Professor
Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research

Academic Degrees
ScD, MPH

Departmental Affiliation
Health Policy and Management
Health and Public Policy

Departmental Address
624 N. Broadway, Rm 593
Baltimore, MD 21205

Email: dwebster@jhsph.edu

Phone: 410-955-0440
Fax: 410-614-9055

Collexis expertise and publication web link

Research and Professional Experience

Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH is Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research and Associate Director of the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has been a core faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy since 1992.

Dr. Webster has published articles on firearm policy, youth gun acquisition and carrying, the prevention of gun violence, intimate partner violence, and adolescent violence prevention. He has studied the effects of a variety of violence prevention interventions including state firearm policies, community programs to change social norms concerning violence, public education and advocacy campaigns, and school-based curricula. Dr. Webster teaches "Understanding and Preventing Violence" and co-teaches health policy evaluation and research methods. He also directs the Injury Control Certificate Program at Johns Hopkins.

Keywords

violence, violence prevention, firearm injuries, gun policy, evaluation, domestic violence, youth violence

Honors and Awards

Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health – Alpha Chapter, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Faculty induction, 2005.

Educator of the Year, Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence, 2004.

Delta Omega Honorary Society - Alpha Chapter Certificate of Merit, 1989.

William Haddon Memorial Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1988-1989.

Selected Publications

Hu G, Webster DW, Baker SP. Hidden homicide trends in the U.S., 1999-2004. J of Urban Health, in press.

Bulzacchelli MT, Vernick JS, Sorock GS, Webster DW, Lees PS. Circumstances of Fatal Lockout/Tagout- Related Injuries in Manufacturing. Amer J of Industrial Medicine, in press.

Vernick JS, Hodge J , Webster DW. The ethics of restrictive licensing for handguns:

Comparing the United States and Canadian approaches to handgun regulation. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2007;35:668-678.

Campbell JC, Webster DW, Glass N. The Danger Assessment: Validation of a Lethality Risk Assessment Instrument for Intimate Partner Femicide. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, in press.

Bulzacchelli MT, Vernick JS, Webster DW, Lees PS. Effects of OSHA’s Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) Standard on Rates of Machinery- Related Fatal Occupational Injury. Injury Prevention 2007;13:334-338.

Vernick JS, Webster DW. Policies to prevent firearms trafficking. Injury Prevention 2007;13:78-79.

Outwater A, Campbell JC, Webster DW, Mgaya E. Homicide death in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review 1970-2004. African Safety Promotion 2008;5:31-44.

Vernick JS, Webster DW, Bulzacchelli MT. Regulating firearms dealers in the United States: an analysis of state law and opportunities for improvement. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2006;34:765.

Vernick JS, Teret SP, Smith GA, Webster DW. Counseling About Firearms: Proposed Legislation is a Threat to Physicians and Their Patients. Pediatrics 2006; 118:2168-72.

Manganello J, Webster DW, Campbell JC. Intimate partner violence and health provider training and screening in the news. Journal of Women’s Health 2006; 43:21-40.

Koziol-McLain J, Webster DW, MacFarlane J, Block CR, Glass N, Campbell JC. Risk factors for femicide-suicide in abusive relationships: results from a multi-site case control study. Violence & Victims 2006;21:3-21.

Vernick JS, Johnson SB, Webster DW. Firearm suicide in Maryland: characteristics of older versus younger suicide victims. Maryland Medicine, 2005; 6(3):24-27.

Lewin NL, Vernick JS, Beilenson PL, Mair JS, Lindamood LM, Teret SP, Webster DW. Using local public health powers as a tool for gun violence prevention: the Baltimore youth ammunition initiative. American Journal of Public Health 2005; 95:762-765.

Webster DW, Vernick JS, Zeoli AM, Manganello JA. Effects of youth-focused firearm laws on youth suicides. JAMA 2004;292:594-601.

Vernick JS, O’Brien M, Hepburn LM, Johnson SB, Webster DW, Hargarten SW. Unintentional and undetermined firearm deaths: A preventable death analysis of three safety devices. Injury Prevention 2003;9:307-311.

Vernick JS, Pierce MW, Webster DW, Johnson SB, Frattaroli S. Technologies to detect concealed weapons: Fourth Amendment limits on a new public health and law enforcement tool. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 2003;31:567-579.

Campbell JC, Webster DW, Koziol-McLain J, et al. Risk factors for femicide within physically abusive intimate relationships: Results from a multi-site case control study. American Journal of Public Health, 2003;93:1089-1097.

Roche KM, Webster DW, Alexander CS, Ensminger ME. Neighborhood variations in the salience of parental support to boys’ fighting. Adolescent and Family Health, 2003;3:55-63.

Webster DW, Vernick JS, Hepburn LM. Effects of Maryland's law banning Saturday night special handguns on homicides. American Journal of Epidemiology, 2002;155:406-412.

Webster DW, Freed LH, Frattaroli S, Wilson MH. How delinquent youth acquire guns: Initial versus most recent gun acquisitions. Journal of Urban Health 2002;79:60-69.

Frattaroli S, Webster DW, Teret SP. Unintentional gun injuries, firearm design, and prevention: A perspective on urban health. Journal of Urban Health, 2002;79:49-59.

Webster DW, Vernick JS, Hepburn LM. The relationship between licensing, registration and other state gun sales laws and the source state of crime guns. Injury Prevention 2001;7:184-189.

Sachs CJ, Kosiol-McLain J, Glass N, Webster DW, Campbell JC. A population-based survey assessing support for mandatory domestic violence reporting by healthcare personnel. Women and Health 2002;35:121-133.

Sharps PW, Campbell JC, Campbell D, Gary F, Webster DW. The role of alcohol use in intimate partner femicide. American Journal on Addictions, 2001;10:122-135.

Freed LH, Webster DW, Longwell JJ, Carrese J, Wilson MH. Deterrents to gun acquisition and carrying among incarcerated adolescent males. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 2001;155:335-341.

Webster DW, Starnes M. Reexamining the association between child access prevention gun laws and unintentional firearm deaths among children, Pediatrics, 2000;106:1466-1469.

Vernick JS, Webster DW, Hepburn LM. Maryland's law banning Saturday night specials: Effects on handgun sales and crime guns. Injury Prevention 1999; 5:259-263.

Howard KA, Webster DW, Vernick JS. Beliefs about the risks of firearms in the home: Analysis of a national survey (U.S.A.). Injury Prevention 1999;5:284-289.

Teret SP, Webster DW. Reducing gun deaths in the United States: Personalized guns would help and would be achievable. British Medical Journal 1999:318:1160-1161.

Teret SP, Webster DW, Vernick JS, Smith TW, Leff D, Wintemute GJ, Cook PJ, Hawkins D, Kellermann AL, Sorenson SB, DeFrancesco S. Public support for innovative gun policies: The results of two national surveys. New England Journal of Medicine 1998;339:813-818.

Webster DW, Vernick JS, Ludwig J. No proof that right-to-carry laws reduce violence, American Journal of Public Health, 1998;88:982-983.

Webster DW, Vernick JS, Ludwig J, Lester KJ. Flawed gun policy research could endanger public safety. American Journal of Public Health 1997;87:918-921.

Vernick JS, Teret SP, Webster DW. Regulating firearm advertising promising home protection: The legal basis for a public health intervention. JAMA 1997;277:1391-1397.

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