Research Highlights
My research is highly interdisciplinary and involves a wonderful team of faculty, students, and school/community partners all of whom make this work possible. Among my various projects, I am currently co-leading work funded by both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health. Select research findings from a sample of recent publications are highlighted below. Please also see my scholarship page for a more detailed list of publications.
A systematic review providing evidence that youth gun violence exposure should be classified as an "Adverse Childhood Experience."
Rajan S, Branas CC, Myers D, & Agrawal N. (2019). Youth exposure to violence involving a gun: Evidence for adverse childhood experience classification. Journal of Behavioral Medicine (Special Issue), 42(4), 646-657.
Among a national sample of Asian American and Pacific Islander high school students, there is a significant relationship between exposure to violence at school and suicidality. We discuss what schools can do to help address this.
Rajan S, Arora P, Cheng B, Khoo O, & Verdeli H. (2021). Suicidality and exposure to school-based violence among a nationally representative sample of Asian American and Pacific Islander adolescents. In press at School Psychology Review (Special Issue: School Violence and School Safety).
There is no evidence that arming teachers is effective at deterring gun violence in schools. We discuss the implications of this for school safety.
Rajan S & Branas CC. (2018). Arming schoolteachers: What do we know? Where do we go from here? American Journal of Public Health, 108(7), 860-862.