Jeffrey Swanson, PhD

Duke University
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine
Box 3071 Med Ctr
Durham, NC
USA 27701

Biographical Sketch: Jeffrey Swanson is Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. He is a medical sociologist with expertise in psychiatric epidemiology and mental health law and policy studies. Swanson is a member of the Methods Core of the Public Health Law Research Program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. His research interests include violence and severe mental illness, the impact of involuntary outpatient commitment law, and psychiatric advance directives.

Papers:
3372.0 Do firearms restrictions prevent suicide and violence in people with mental illness? new research evidence from New York 4319.0 Mental illness, violence, and gun law reform: Bringing phlr evidence to crisis-driven policy