Position Title
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz is a population health sociologist specializing in mixed-methods research on the social determinants of health and health equity. She is particularly interested in understanding and addressing the socioeconomic and policy forces and systems of power and privilege that create and concentrate inequitable community conditions of high risk factors associated with violence/illness and low protective factors associated with safety/well-being.
Kravitz-Wirtz’s core areas of study include: neighborhood-health effects and effect modification over the life course; causes, consequences, and prevention of structural and community violence exposure, especially among youth and young adults; firearm ownership-related motivations, behaviors, and injury prevention policies; and hospital- and community-based violence intervention strategies.