Lori Ann Post PhD

Lori Ann Post, PhD is the Buehler Professor for Aging in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medical Social Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine. She is the inaugural Director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy & Economics. Dr. Post is an injury control scientist whose work is focused on policy and injury prevention. As a Demographer and Epidemiologist, Dr. Post is expert in surveillance systems and policy to action research. She works on topics such as opioid overdose deaths, mass shootings, and other violence prevention projects.

Dr. Post is working on a variety of injury control studies related to the opioid crisis, including patterns, hotspots, and spatial heterogeneity of opioid overdose deaths; economic drivers of the opioid crisis in terms of supply and demand. She has a second line of research testing policies that curb mass shootings by identifying histories and precipitating events of mass shooters to identify missed intervention opportunities to prevent mass shootings. Finally, she is using her surveillance skills to track the COVID-19 pandemic in 217 countries daily.