Daniel Webster (academic)

Daniel W. Webster (born 1960) is an American health policy researcher and the distinguished research scholar of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions (formerly known as the Center for Gun Policy and Research) at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also the deputy director for research at the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, and the first Bloomberg Professor of American Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2016, he became the director of the Johns Hopkins-Baltimore Collaborative for Violence Reduction, a joint crime-fighting effort between Johns Hopkins and the Baltimore Police Department.