Lisa

Geller

, MPH

Lisa Geller, MPH, is a Senior Practice Associate in the department of Health Policy and Management and the Director of Implementation for the Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Geller is a nationally recognized expert on Extreme Risk Protection Order laws and co-leads the Johns Hopkins National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center, funded by the Department of Justice.

She received her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016 and her MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2019. Her work focuses on research, advocacy, and implementation of evidence-based gun violence prevention policies, including ERPOs and domestic violence protection orders. 

As the Co-Lead of the National ERPO Resource Center she is a training and technical assistance provider for jurisdictions with ERPO laws. In this role, she provides support to law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, clinicians, community organizations, and others involved in the ERPO process. To date, Lisa has trained thousands of implementers in nearly every state where ERPO is law as well as in Washington, D.C., and she responds daily to technical assistance questions from the field. Her work was recognized in 2023 by Johns Hopkins through the Staff Excellence in U.S. Public Health Practice Award.

Additionally, Lisa is also a mayoral appointee on the District of Columbia's Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board.

Lisa’s primary focus is practice, but she also has an interest in research questions that she has identified through her policy implementation work. Among other work, she was the lead author on an important paper looking at the intersection of domestic violence and mass shootings that was recognized as the best paper published in 2021 in Injury Epidemiology. She also is the lead author for an article that was just published in the journal Inquiry: Applying an Implementation Science Framework to Extreme Risk Protection Orders. Additionally, she has authored and co-authored key practice reports including, among many others, ERPO model policy guides and ERPO implementation guides in Indiana, Minnesota, and Illinois (forthcoming).

As an HPM faculty member, Lisa will continue her expanding work within the Center for Gun Violence Solutions (CGVS) as well as the Johns Hopkins National ERPO Resource Center.