Dr. Stephanie Bradley

Dr. Bradley cultivates partnerships focused on community safety across Metro departments and with community-based organizations. This work aims to identify all the community safety efforts across Nashville, identify strengths and existing capacity that can be further advanced, as well as gaps and ways to address them. Recognizing that community safety means something unique to each person and community, she approaches this work with a comprehensive and inclusive view.

Stephanie is a public health and prevention systems leader with more than a decade of experience advancing cross-sector strategies related to youth well-being, behavioral health, violence prevention, and community safety. Her work has focused on helping public agencies and community partners align around data-informed, evidence-based approaches that strengthen coordination, improve implementation, and address upstream drivers of harm.

Her work has included partnerships with organizations such as the CDC, NACCHO, state agencies, and local communities to strengthen collaborative responses to complex public safety and public health challenges. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from The Pennsylvania State University with training rooted in prevention science, lifespan development, and public health approaches to systems change.

In her free time, she enjoys working with her hands restoring vintage lamps, tinkering on Jeeps, gardening, and DIY projects.