Nichole Michaels

Assistant Professor (Courtesy)
Health Behavior and Health Promotion

Email: michaels.136@osu.edu
Phone: 614-355-5870

Biography

Dr. Nichole Michaels’ research interests center on preventing morbidity and mortality from drug overdoses, child maltreatment and other violent means. She is particularly interested in how these issues intersect and how the criminal justice system can promote and hinder positive outcomes for individuals and families. As a mixed methods researcher, Dr. Michaels strives to center the voices of the communities she studies and put a story behind the quantitative data that frames her lab’s mission.

Dr. Michaels earned her BA in English literature and theatre arts from East Carolina University and MPH and PhD in public health from The Ohio State University. She has worked in the field of injury prevention for more than 20 years, first as a health educator and policy expert and later as a researcher. Her primary faculty appointment is in the Department of Pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and she is a principal investigator in the Center for Injury Research and Policy at the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

Education

PhD: Health Behavior and Health Promotion, The Ohio State University, 2016
MPH: Health Behavior and Health Promotion, The Ohio State University, 2005
BA: English Literature and Theatre Arts, East Carolina University, 2000

Research interests

Overdose harm reduction, child maltreatment, firearm injuries, violence prevention, mixed-methods research, intersection of substance use, child maltreatment and the criminal justice system.