Dr. Avanti Adhia is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (HIPRC) at the University of Washington. Her background is in social epidemiology, social determinants of health, intimate partner violence (IPV), and adolescent health. The overall goal of her research is to prevent IPV by understanding the causes and consequences of IPV in addition to the role of policies and interventions in preventing and reducing violence. She is currently funded by a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award from NIH to study the effectiveness of state laws about school-based IPV prevention and response in reducing the prevalence of adolescent IPV. Avanti earned her BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University and her ScD in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.