Dr. Bell's research program intersects the fields of GIScience, social epidemiology, and injury epidemiology. His current research focuses on functional outcomes and quality of life after major trauma, exploring frameworks for classifying outcomes of trauma care and the design and application of GIS-based tools for health services studies relevant to injury. He is also interested in working with health care systems towards routinely collecting outcome data on injury survivors, with particular interest in developing best practices for the transition from hospital to recovery.