Rate My Professor Maryann Mason

Maryann Mason is Professor of Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She serves as Associate Director of the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics and leads violence and injury research efforts. Her work centers on community-engaged research addressing violence prevention, injury control, opioid misuse and overdose prevention, public health, and related disparities. Mason holds a PhD in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago and maintains affiliations with the Institute for Policy Research, the Institute for Public Health and Medicine, the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, the Robert J. Havey MD Institute for Global Health, the Potocsnak Longevity Institute, and the Stanley Manne Children’s Research Institute.

Mason has authored multiple high-profile manuscripts on opioid overdose trends, including studies examining fatalities before, during, and after COVID-19 stay-at-home orders in Cook County, Illinois, as well as disparities in overdose death rates among adults aged 55 and older by sex, race, and ethnicity. Additional research addresses youth homicide trends, geographic patterns of homicide and suicide, suicide risk factors by age, and associations between state spending and youth homicides in Chicago. Her contributions appear in journals such as MMWR, JAMA, JAMA Network Open, and BMJ Open. Mason is recognized as a faculty expert in epidemiology, public health, and sociology with a focus on addiction, substance use, domestic violence, violent crime prevention, and community conditions influencing health and well-being.