Stephen Teret ’69 (b. 1946)
Stephen Teret earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1969 and went on to become a major figure in public health law, particularly in the fields of gun violence prevention and injury control. He joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he founded the Center for Gun Policy and Research as well as the Center for Law & the Public’s Health, both nationally recognized institutions in the study of injury prevention and public health policy. Teret’s work focuses on the intersection of law, regulation, and public health, and his scholarship has helped shape national approaches to firearm regulation, product safety, and injury prevention.
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