Rebecca Rebbe is an assistant professor at the UNC School of Social Work. Rebecca’s research examines the measurement of and community responses to child maltreatment. Her research is informed by 7 years of post-MSW practice working with families involved with child welfare systems, in both the public and private sectors. Rebecca specializes in using population-based linked administrative datasets and data science techniques to better understand child maltreatment. She is the principal investigator of the NICHD-funded research project “The impact of COVID-19 on child maltreatment-related medical encounters and system responses using linked administrative data” (1R21HD105907-01).

Rebecca is currently funded by a K01 award from the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control to study the relationship between social safety net accessibility and violence against children, which includes training in causal inference methods (K01-CE003548-01).

Her work has been published in academic journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Child Maltreatment.