He is also the deputy director for research at the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, and the first Bloomberg Professor of American Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
[4] Webster received his MPH from the University of Michigan in 1985 and his ScD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1990.
[2] His ScD thesis was entitled, Determinants of pediatricians' firearm injury prevention counseling practices.
[5] Webster is known for his research into gun violence and laws, and he has published numerous articles on these and related subjects.
[8][9] A previous study by Webster et al. had found that the repeal of Missouri's PTP law was associated with increased annual murders of 0.93 per 100,000 people, or about 55 to 63 per year.