Jason Goldstick, PhD
Research Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Research Assistant Professor, Health Behavior and Health Equity
[email protected]

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Jason Goldstick, PhD
Research Associate Professor
  • About
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  • Recent Publications
  • About

    Jason Goldstick’s past research broadly focused on social epidemiology in a variety of settings, including infectious disease, childhood problem behaviors, substance use, and violence. Inherent to these types of problems is a necessity to devise methods for complex data structures such as longitudinal and spatially dependent data, which is what brought him to this line of research during his Ph.D. training in statistics. After graduate school, Dr. Goldstick spent two years as a research fellow in the University of Michigan School of Public Health, in the Epidemiology Department, working on infectious disease modeling. Dr. Goldstick's current work at the Injury Center involves a variety of injury-related research projects, most related to substance use and/or violence. A recurring theme in his research is the analysis of how contextual information (e.g. spatially/temporally proximate conditions) modulates individual-level outcomes; both in terms of direct effects and how they modify dependencies between variables. Dr. Goldstick is the PI of an R03 funded to study age-specific risk factors for, and comorbidities of (e.g. violence, sexual risk behaviors), substance use.

    Administrative Contacts

    Terry Ebenhoeh
    [email protected]

    Lisa Orrison
    [email protected]

    Center Memberships
    • Center Member
      Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
    • Center Member
      University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center
    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      Firearm violence and associated factors among young adults presenting to emergency departments in three cities: Baseline results from Project SPARK.
      Goldstick JE, Carter PM, Whiteside L, Delgado MK, Stallworth P, Sullivan K, Childs M, Taga S, Cunningham RM. Prev Med, 2024 Sep 2; 189: 108124 DOI:10.1016/j.ypmed.2024.108124
      PMID: 39232991
    • Chapter
      The public health approach for firearm violence and injury prevention.
      Furnari MB, Hsieh HF, Goldstick JE, Sokol R, Lee DB, Heinze JE, Zimmerman MA. 2024 Nov 22; Handbook of Gun Violence, 13 - 28.
    • Journal Article
      State-to-State Variation in Rates and Causes of Child and Adolescent Mortality in the US.
      Weigend Vargas E, Stallworth P, Carter PM, Goldstick JE. JAMA Pediatr, 2024 Nov 1; 178 (11): 1223 - 1227. DOI:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2024.2894
      PMID: 39226041
    • Journal Article
      Adolescent Firearm Suicides in the United States: Exploring Racial and Ethnic Differences, 2004 to 2020
      Weigend Vargas E, Ewell Foster C, Mintz S, Hartman HA, Seewald L, Sokol R, Ehrlich PF, Carter PM, Goldstick JE. Youth and Society, 2024 Nov 1; 56 (8): 1542 - 1557. DOI:10.1177/0044118X241277202
    • Journal Article
      Adolescent Firearm Suicides in the United States: Exploring Racial and Ethnic Differences, 2004 to 2020
      Weigend Vargas E, Ewell Foster C, Mintz S, Hartman HA, Seewald L, Sokol R, Ehrlich PF, Carter PM, Goldstick JE. Youth and Society, 2024 Nov 1; 56 (8): 1542 - 1557. DOI:10.1177/0044118X241277202
    • Journal Article
      Firearm-related threats before migrating to the USA from Latin America and the Caribbean.
      Weigend Vargas E, Goldstick J, Vargas L. Inj Prev, 2024 Oct 23; DOI:10.1136/ip-2024-045369
      PMID: 39442946
    • Journal Article
      Firearm Injury Risk Prediction Among Children Transported By 9-1-1 Emergency Medical Services: A Machine Learning Analysis (in-press)
      Newgard C, Babcock S, Malveau S, Lin A, Goldstick J, Carter P, Cook J, Song X, Wei R, Salvi A, Fallat M, Kuppermann N, Jenkins P, Fein J, Mann NC. Pediatric Emergency Care, 2024 Oct 17;
    • Journal Article
      Firearm related threats before migrating to the United States (in-press)
      Weigend Vargas E, Goldstick J, Vargas L. Injury Prevention, 2024 Oct 8;
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    Health Lab
    Refining tools that spot risk of violence in young adults in urban ERs may save lives
    Half of young adult patients treated in emergency departments in three urban hospitals across the country reported experiencing violence either as a victim or aggressor, including firearm violence, in the six months prior to seeking treatment, according to a University of Michigan study.