Susan Sorenson

Susan B. Sorenson
EducationIowa State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Cincinnati
Awards2014 Bridge of Courage Award from Women Organized Against Rape
Scientific career
FieldsPublic health, social policy
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Thesis Loss and childhood depression  (1985)

Susan B. Sorenson is a professor of social policy, and of health and societies, at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a senior fellow in public health, director of the PhD program in social welfare, and director of the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center there.[1] She is known for studying gun violence from a public health and political perspective, and she has argued for increasing the availability of data to researchers regarding this subject.[2][3][4]

Education

Sorenson received her B.S. in sociology and psychology from Iowa State University, her M.S. in psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Cincinnati. Subsequently, she was a post-doctoral scholar in psychiatric epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health.[1]

Awards and honors

Sorenson was appointed a fellow of the American Psychological Association's Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues in 2007. She received the Bridge of Courage Award from Women Organized Against Rape in 2014.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Susan B. Sorenson". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  2. ^ Glenza, Jessica (27 October 2015). "How many guns are in America? A web of state secrecy means no one knows". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  3. ^ Kelly, Nora (14 December 2015). "Are Mass Shootings Contagious?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  4. ^ Hancock, Jay (20 December 2012). "The Gun Lobby's Favorite Part Of The Health Law". NPR. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  5. ^ "Susan Sorenson CV" (PDF). 27 July 2016.