Susan B. Sorenson is a professor of social policy, and of health and societies, at the University of Pennsylvania.

She is also a senior fellow in public health, director of the PhD program in social welfare, and director of the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center there.

[1] She is known for studying gun violence from a public health and political perspective, and she has argued for increasing the availability of data to researchers regarding this subject.

Subsequently, she was a post-doctoral scholar in psychiatric epidemiology at the UCLA School of Public Health.

She received the Bridge of Courage Award from Women Organized Against Rape in 2014.