David I. Swedler, PhD, MPH, is a Research Scientist working on epidemiology and statistics focused mainly on injury, overdose, and violence morbidity and mortality. He received his PhD in Health Policy and Management at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and his MPH in General Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Dr. Swedler completed a postdoc in the Harvard-Liberty Program in Occupation Safety and Health and was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Swedler has been with PIRE since February 2017.
Selected Projects
Economic/Financial Cost of Gun Violence
Optimizing Tobacco Dependence Treatment in the Emergency Department
Update Cost of Motor Vehicle Crash Components
Selected Publications
Swedler, D. I., Miller, T. R., Ali, B., Waeher, G., & Bernstein, S. L. (2019). National medical expenditures by smoking status in American adults: An application of Manning’s two-stage model to nationally representative data. BMJ Open, 9(7), e026592. PMCID: PMC6661572. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026592
Swedler, D. I., Pollack, K. M., & Agnew, J. (2015). Safety climate and the distracted driving experiences of truck drivers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 58(7), 746-755. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.22473
Swedler, D. I., Simmons, M. M., Dominici, F., & Hemenway, D. (2015). Firearm prevalence and homicides of law enforcement officers in the United States. American Journal of Public Health, 105(10), 2042-2048. PMCID: PMC4566543. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2015.302749
Swedler, D. I., Verma, S. K., Huang, Y.-H., Lombardi, D. A., Chang, W.-R., Brennan, M., & Courtney, T. K. (2015). A structural equation modelling approach examining the pathways between safety climate, behaviour performance and workplace slipping. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 72(7), 476-481. PMCID: PMC4484367. https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2014-102496
Swedler, D. I., Bowman, S. M., & Baker, S. P. (2012). Gender and age differences among teen drivers in fatal crashes. Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine, 56, 97-106. PMCID: PMC3503410.
