Stephen Hargarten received his MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1975 and his MPH from Johns Hopkins in 1984. He is Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Dean for Global Health and the past, founding Director of the Comprehensive Injury Center, (CIC), at the Medical College of Wisconsin.  Dr. Hargarten’s research interests reflect an intersection of injury and violence prevention and health policy to address the burden of this complex biopsychosocial disease. His work in linking data systems for understanding violent deaths informed the development of CDC’s National Violent Death Reporting System.  He is currently a member of a CIC team that is actively translating the Cardiff Model into communities, (linking assault data from EDs, EMS, and police records).  He has recently led investigations into the ballistics of bullets that are linked to civilian deaths and injuries.  Dr. Hargarten has published over 100 peer reviewed manuscripts.  He has lectured regionally, nationally, and internationally on gun violence, global health, and injury prevention and control.

Dr. Hargarten was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars and was elected to the Institute of Medicine, (now the National Academy of Medicine, NAM) of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), in 2011.  He was the founding President of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR) and has served on the Violence and Injury Prevention Mentoring Committee for the World Health Organization. Dr. Hargarten currently serves on the national boards of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and the Association for Safe International Road Travel.  Dr. Hargarten also currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board of NASEM.  He also serves on the Community Preventive Services Task Force of the CDC.