Allie Bond to Join the Rutgers School of Public Health and New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center

Allie Bond, Ph.D., will join the Rutgers School of Public Health’s Department of Urban-Global Public Health as an assistant professor in September 2025. She will also be a member of the school’s New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center.

Bond's research focuses on the intersection of firearms and suicide prevention. Specifically, she seeks to determine who utilizes a firearm in a suicide death and ways to increase the effectiveness of secure firearm storage messaging.

“Dr. Bond is a rising star in the field of suicide prevention and everyone at the GVRC is thrilled to see what she will accomplish in this new role,” said Michael Anestis, executive director of the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center. “Her work saves lives, and our team is far stronger with her on board.”

In addition, she is dedicated to communicating research beyond the walls of academia to ensure research has an impact on communities that need it.

“The department is excited to have Dr. Bond join the School of Public Health,” said Leslie M. Kantor, professor and chair of the Department of Urban-Global Public Health.  “Her contributions to reducing gun injuries and deaths are a critically important and understudied area of public health with the potential for great impact. We look forward to collaborating with Dr. Bond in her new role.”

Bond received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Rutgers University-New Brunswick and completed her pre-doctoral internship at New York Presbyterian/Weill-Cornell Medical Center.

“I’m dedicated to promoting the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center's and Rutgers School of Public Health's missions of reducing firearm injury and death, promoting well-being, and communicating science to communities directly impacted by suicide and firearm injury,” said Bond.