Jonathan D. Rupp, PhD
Emory University
Biography
Dr. Jonathan Rupp is the Vice Chair for Innovation and Discovery, and a Professor in Emory University School of Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine. He holds a secondary appointment as a Professor in the Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, and an Adjunct Research Professor appointment at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute in the UofM College of Engineering. Dr. Rupp’s role at IPRCE involves providing administrative, scientific, and financial oversight of the Center, including its daily functioning, progress towards the center’s mission and specific aims, management of IPRCE faculty leading each Core, and funding Center initiatives and pilot grants. Dr. Rupp provides vision and guidance for the Center’s Outreach, Research, and Training activities and our Task Forces. He represents the Center in communications with external partners and stakeholders. He also chairs the Steering Committee and the Task Force Leaders Committee.
Dr. Rupp has been extramurally funded for over 20 years. His past research has supported the development of new federal regulations, test procedures, and test devices to improve safety for occupants in motor vehicle crashes and in military vehicle exposed to under-body blast. He has collected and analyzed data on crashes and crash injury to identify risk and protective factors, developing tools for assessing the ability of vehicles to mitigate the potential for injury crashes, and statistical modeling to estimate the benefits of injury prevention technologies. His current work includes studies aimed at developing new methods for investigating pedestrian injury crashes, assessing how to most effectively counsel patients on firearm injury prevention in the ED, and characterizing factors influencing micro mobility device injuries.
He also is a member of the Georgia Crash Outcomes Data Evaluation System (CODES) Board of Directors, the Georgia Violent Death Reporting System’s Advisory Committee, the Rollins—Spark (Program on Substance Use Disorders) Advisory Board, the Georgia State University Center for Alcohol and Violence Research External Advisory Board, and the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center External Advisory Board.
Dr. Rupp has been extramurally funded for over 20 years. His past research has supported the development of new federal regulations, test procedures, and test devices to improve safety for occupants in motor vehicle crashes and in military vehicle exposed to under-body blast. He has collected and analyzed data on crashes and crash injury to identify risk and protective factors, developing tools for assessing the ability of vehicles to mitigate the potential for injury crashes, and statistical modeling to estimate the benefits of injury prevention technologies. His current work includes studies aimed at developing new methods for investigating pedestrian injury crashes, assessing how to most effectively counsel patients on firearm injury prevention in the ED, and characterizing factors influencing micro mobility device injuries.
He also is a member of the Georgia Crash Outcomes Data Evaluation System (CODES) Board of Directors, the Georgia Violent Death Reporting System’s Advisory Committee, the Rollins—Spark (Program on Substance Use Disorders) Advisory Board, the Georgia State University Center for Alcohol and Violence Research External Advisory Board, and the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center External Advisory Board.
