The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Division of Injury Prevention, Data Analytics Branch needs scientific expertise with state of the art administrative data linking projects to identify new opportunities to use existing administrative and other (e.g., survey) data in combination with econometric methods to directly estimate the long-term cost of violence. This work will require expertise in criminology. The selected researcher has academic training and expertise in criminology, which will be relevant to identify and classify relevant data sources related to the topics of crime and victimization within a large data landscape. The University of Michigan can provide CDC with unique expertise in criminology applied to state of the art to administrative data linking to describe long-term outcomes among people affected by crime and violence, as well as improve the knowledge and skillset of CDC colleagues in this focus area. The University of Michigan employee will support CDC staff in conducting a rigorous review of opportunities to use existing administrative data related to crime and violence and new data linking projects to examine the long-erm outcomes of violence. CDC staff will gain critical training and mentorship in these topics by working with the University of Michigan employee. This position at CDC provides the University of Michigan employee with new experience and knowledge related to the US public health approach to violence prevention. Skills that will be acquired include an improved understanding of public health practice at the CDC, the CDC’s approach to classifying violence-related injuries and calculating the long-term population economic burden of such injuries, as well as possible future research collaborations.