Alice Ellyson, MS, PhD

Dr. Ellyson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine at the University of Washington (UW), Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health, School of Public Health at UW, affiliate faculty in the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology at UW, the Director of Policy in the Center for Firearm Injury Prevention at UW, and a principal investigator in the Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. Dr. Ellyson’s research focuses on how policies, incentives, and infrastructure shape individual and family well-being, providing rigorous empirical evidence to inform policies and decisions. She has a grant funded program of research focusing on the role of policies in the areas of health, crime, the economy, and others and their implementation on interpersonal violence, especially intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and child maltreatment. Her interdisciplinary research has been funded by various federal and non-profit organizations, and her work has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals including economics journals (e.g., Contemporary Economic Policy, Health Economics), health/medicine journals (e.g., the Journal of Rural Health, Preventive Medicine, JAMA Network Open), and violence-specific journals (e.g., Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Injury Prevention).