Dr. April M. Zeoli is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. She earned her PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she studied health and public policy, specializing in violence prevention. Dr. Zeoli conducts interdisciplinary research, with a goal of bringing together the fields of public health and criminology and criminal justice. Her main field of investigation is the prevention of intimate partner violence and homicide through the use of policy and law. Specifically, she is interested in the role of firearms in intimate partner violence and homicide, as well as the civil and criminal justice systems responses to intimate partner violence. Recently, she evaluated the association of state-level intimate partner violence-related legal restrictions on firearm purchase and possession with intimate partner homicide rates, finding that some of these laws may reduce intimate partner homicide rates. She is currently studying the implementation of firearm relinquishment procedures for those intimate partner violence offenders who can no longer legally possess them. She is also studying the criminal histories of those who go on to commit intimate partner homicide to identify potential intervention points.

Dr. Zeoli is on the editorial board of the scholarly journal Injury Prevention, and serves as the research expert for the National Domestic Violence and Firearms Resource Center.