Silvia Villarreal, MPP

Silvia Villarreal is the director of research translation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Gun Violence Solutions. She aims to bridge the gap between research and policy by translating research into evidence-based reports. Villareal is also the managing director for the Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy where she coordinates a group of experts to craft gun violence policy solutions from a public health perspective. She has led development of several reports on firearm policy, including “Racial Equity Impact Assessment Framework for Gun Violence Prevention” and “Alcohol Misuse and Gun Violence: An Evidence Based Approach for State Policy.”