Erin Holsinger

Erin Holsinger, Lecturer Stanford Health Policy

Erin Holsinger, MD, MS

  • Lecturer, Health Policy
  • Administrative Director of the MS, PhD Programs, Health Policy
  • Health Services & Policy Research Scholarly Concentration Director

Biography

Erin Holsinger is a Lecturer in the Department of Health Policy and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. In Health Policy, she is a co-director of the Health Services and Policy Research Scholarly Concentration in the School of Medicine and the Administrative Director of the Health Policy MS and PhD programs. In Pediatrics, she is an attending physician at the Gardner Packard Children’s Health Clinic. She is a member of Stanford’s LongSHOT (Longitudinal Study of Handgun Ownership and Transfer) team and performs research about the impact of gun ownership on the risk of death for the gun owner and those who live with them. 

Dr. Holsinger received her MD from Baylor College of Medicine and a MS in Health Policy from Stanford. She did her Pediatrics residency at Baylor and an Academic General Pediatrics fellowship at Stanford.

In The News

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Californians Living with Handgun Owners Twice as Likely to Die by Homicide

In the largest cohort study of its kind, research led by SHP's David Studdert and Yifan Zhang shows that people living with handgun owners are significantly more likely to die by homicide compared with neighbors in gun-free homes.
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Owning Handgun Associated With Dramatically Higher Risk of Suicide

Men who own handguns are eight times more likely to die of suicide by handgun than men who don’t have one — and women who own handguns are 35 times more likely than women who don’t, according to startling new research led by SHP's David Studdert.
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