Faculty Profile
Justin E. Heinze, PhD
- Associate Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education
- 3818 SPH I
- 1415 Washington Heights
- Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029
Dr. Heinze research investigates how schools influence disparities in violence and
other risk outcomes from an ecological perspective that includes individual, interpersonal,
and contextual influences on development. He is particularly interested in structural
features of school context and policy that perpetuate inequity in violence and firearm
outcomes, but also how these institutions can serve as a setting for intervention.
Dr. Heinze is currently an associate professor in the Department of Health Behavior
and Health Education in the School of Public Health and holds an appointment with
the Combined Program in Education and Psychology. He completed his PhD in education
psychology from the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2011. He is the Director of
the National Center for School Safety, the faculty lead for Public Health IDEAS for
Preventing Firearm Injury, and principal investigator of the Healthy Minds Study.
- HBHED700: Advanced Quantitative Methods in Health Behavior
- HBHED710: Injury Prevention and Evaluating Interventions
- Predoctoral Fellowship, Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2009-2011
- PhD, Educational Psychology, University of Illinois-Chicago, 2011
- M.A., Higher Education and Administration, University of Michigan, 2004
- B.A., Personality and Developmental Psychology, University of Michigan, 2003