Faculty Profile
April M. Zeoli, PhD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy
- Policy Core Director, Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
Dr. Zeoli is interested in the impact of state-level firearm safety laws on interpersonal
firearm violence and the implement Epidemiologylic health, criminology, and criminal
justice-is focused on firearm policies that restrict high-risk individuals from purchase
and possession of guns and those that facilitate the implementation of firearm restriction
policies. Much of Dr. Zeoli's research has focused on domestic violence-related firearm
restrictions, such as laws that require or allow firearm restrictions on domestic
violence restraining orders, and whether these laws are associated with reductions
in intimate partner homicide.
She is also interested in how local courts and law enforcement implement the restrictions
to ensure that an individual who is newly prohibited from having a firearm does not
have a firearm. Dr. Zeoli is also interested in extreme risk protection orders (or
"red flag laws"), their impact on firearm violence, including suicide, and the implementation
and enforcement of these orders. The goals of her research are to provide evidence
on whether and how firearm safety policies reduce firearm violence and to improve
the implementation of these laws through science.
- PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2008
- MPH, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 2000
- BA, University of Michigan, 1998
Firearms, intimate partner violence, homicide, firearm laws, and extreme risk protection orders.
Research Projects:
Zeoli's six-state study on extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) is the largest study
of its kind and explores the risk profiles of respondents to the orders, factors that
are associated with ERPOs being granted, the use of ERPOs in cases of threats of mass
shootings, and whether ERPOs are associated with reductions in firearm suicide.
Zeoli is collaborating on a case-control study of the risk factors for intimate partner homicide, including factors related to gun access and use, in six states.
Zeoli is leading a study on the implementation and outcomes of domestic violence restraining order firearm restrictions for restraining order petitioners who have experienced gun-involved intimate partner violence. This study is being conducted in three states to compare results across differing state laws.
Zeoli is collaborating on a project to analyze whether permit-to-purchase firearm licensing laws are associated with reductions in intimate partner homicide in states that have these laws. Permit-to-purchase laws require an individual who wants to purchase a gun to obtain a license through local governmental authorities.
Zeoli AM, Paruk J, Branas CC, Carter PM, Cunningham R, Heinze J, Webster DW. Use of extreme risk protection orders to reduce gun violence in Oregon. Criminology and Public Policy. 2021; 20(2): 243-261. DOI: 10.1111/1745-9133.12544.
Zeoli AM, Paruk JK. Potential to prevent mass shootings through domestic violence firearm restrictions. Criminology and Public Policy. 2020; 19: 129-145. DOI: 10.1111/1745-9133.12475
Zeoli AM, Goldstick J, Mauri A, Wallin M, Goyal M, Cunningham R. The association of firearm laws with firearm outcomes among children and adolescents: A scoping review. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 2019; 42(4): 741-762. DOI: 10.1007/s10865-019-00063-y
Zeoli AM, Frattaroli S, Roskam K, Herrera A. Removing firearms from those prohibited from possession by domestic violence restraining orders: A survey and analysis of state laws. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse. 2019; 20(1): 114-125. DOI: 10.1177/1524838017692384.
Zeoli AM, McCourt A, Buggs S, Frattaroli S, Lilley D, Webster DW. Analysis of the strength of legal firearms restrictions for perpetrators of domestic violence and their associations with intimate partner homicide. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2018; 187(11): 2365-2371. DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwy174
View full list of publications at: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QHzNAqcAAAAJandhl=enandoi=ao
Email: azeoli@umich.edu
Address:
M3164 SPHII
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
For media inquiries: sph.media@umich.edu
Areas of Expertise: Firearm Injury Prevention, Health Policy