Jeffrey W. Swanson

Jeffrey W. Swanson is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, researching policies to reduce firearm violence and improve outcomes for severe mental illness. His work informs evidence-based mental health laws and violence prevention strategies.

Research focuses on:

• Extreme Risk Protection Order laws
• Involuntary outpatient commitment
• Firearm access restriction policies
• Mental illness-violence relationship

Recent studies evaluate suicide prevention effects of risk-based firearm removal laws, outcomes of assisted outpatient treatment, and implementation of extreme risk protection orders. His empirical work influences state/federal policy discussions on mental health and violence prevention.