Carmel Salhi, ScD is an associate professor at Northeastern University’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences, a faculty scholar at the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, and a social epidemiologist who utilizes qualitative methods to investigate, prevent, and mitigate the effects of violence on children and youth.

His work focuses on two broad areas of violence prevention: 1) refugees’ exposure to violence, from their country of origin to their country of resettlement, and the effect it has on their mental health and well-being; and 2) access to household firearms among US youth, especially in relation to suicide risk. In both domains, Dr. Salhi’s approach to understanding violence and its consequences is informed by the idea that violence is a complex, socially determined phenomenon in which the physical environment plays a critical—and often neglected—role. Dr. Salhi’s work leverages his interdisciplinary training in epidemiology, anthropology, neuroscience, mathematics, biology, and history.