Maria T. Bulzacchelli, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
                       
                                   

Telephone: (413) 545-7428
Email: bulzacchelli@schoolph.umass.edu
Campus Address: 310 Arnold House

Maria Bulzacchelli is an Assistant Professor of Public Health. Her research interests center on the study of primary prevention policies, especially in the area of injury prevention. Her most recent research has focused on the evaluation of the effectiveness of injury prevention policies and programs, specifically pertaining to occupational safety, firearms, and childhood injuries. Dr. Bulzacchelli holds an A.B. from Bowdoin College and a Ph.D. in Health and Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Recent Publications

Bulzacchelli MT, Vernick JS, Webster DW, Lees PSJ. Effects of OSHA’s Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout) Standard on Rates of Machinery-Related Fatal Occupational Injury. Injury Prevention, in press.

Vernick JS, Webster DW, Bulzacchelli MT, Samia Mair J. Regulation of firearm dealers in the United States: An analysis of state law and opportunities for improvement. Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2006, 34:765-775.

Michaud CM, McKenna MT, Begg S, Tomijima N, Majmudar M, Bulzacchelli MT, Ebrahim S, Ezzati M, Salomon J, Kreiser J, Hogan M, and Murray CJL. The burden of disease and injury in the United States – 1996. Population Health Metrics 2006, 4:11.

Murray CJL, Kulkarni SC, Michaud C, Tomijima N, Bulzacchelli MT, Iandiorio TJ, Ezzati M. Eight Americas: Investigating mortality disparities across races, counties, and race-counties in the United States. PLoS Medicine 2006, 3:1513-1524.

Webster DW, Vernick JS, Bulzacchelli MT. Effects of a gun dealer’s change in sales practices on the supply of guns to criminals. Journal of Urban Health 2006, 83:778-787.

Webster DW, Bulzacchelli MT, Zeoli AM, Vernick JS. Effects of undercover police stings of gun dealers on the supply of new guns to criminals. Injury Prevention 2006, 12:225-230.