What Can New York City’s Crime Prevention Efforts Teach Us About Gun Violence?
There is a core tenet to the Cure Violence method: Gun violence behaves like a contagious disease, and its spread can be controlled using public health strategies. Officially started in 2000, Cure...
View ArticleSnaps, Likes, and Shares Are Teaching Teens About the Dangers of Guns
In 2022, when the violence prevention organization Project Unloaded launched its first social media-focused campaign, its leaders had one goal: to challenge the notion among young people that guns...
View ArticleTaking Weight-Loss Drugs Could Help Reduce Violent Impulses
About a year ago, Rutgers University researcher Daniel Semenza was listening to a podcast about an expansive study of GLP-1 medications when a question occurred to him. The 2025 study, published in...
View ArticleMore Than 4 Million Americans Have Lost Access to SNAP Benefits. Experts...
As Dr. Sharven Taghavi sat before Cincinnati’s Public Safety Committee to testify on the connection between gun violence and food insecurity, he knew he had to be clear. It was 2024, two years after...
View Article‘Gun Violence Is the Last Manifestation of Every Other Social Ill’
Gun violence prevention leaders have been talking about it for years: Social conditions contribute to the prevalence of gun violence. “Gun violence is the last manifestation of every other social ill,...
View ArticleThey Studied Nearly 14,000 People to See How Eviction Rates Are Linked to Gun...
Late last month, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed a measure that will protect renters from eviction and tenant exploitation — a move that the city’s housing advocates have supported for years —...
View ArticleJust 1 in 5 Gunshot Patients Are Accessing the Intervention Programs Designed...
A first-of-its-kind research study found that nearly two-thirds of firearm injury patients are treated in hospitals with violence intervention programs, but only about 20 percent of those patients...
View ArticleThese Theater Kids Are Shifting the Narrative on Gun Violence
On an October evening last year, Ian Hodges sat in a seat in the front row of an auditorium. He was preparing himself to watch a play that he had spent months writing. Hodges, a 17-year-old junior in...
View ArticleTrying to Make Sense of the Louisiana and Virginia Murder-Suicides
When Jacquelyn Campbell first heard that Virginia’s former lieutenant governor had fatally shot his wife before shooting himself, she was devastated. For nearly five decades, Campbell has studied...
View ArticleResidents on Chicago’s South Side Got a Trauma Center Reopened. New Research...
Every year on New Year’s Eve, Juan Rendon thinks about his best friend Junior Estudillo, who was shot and killed on Chicago’s West Side in 2012, when Estudillo was 19 years old. In the 14 years since,...
View ArticleShe Was Drawn to Gun Violence Research. Then She Discovered the Truth About...
By her first semester of graduate school, in 2018, Jordan Costa was conscientious about suicide awareness. She was pursuing a doctorate in criminology at Rutgers University and had come to understand...
View ArticleGhost Guns Are Linked to an Increase in Suicide Rates
People who attempt suicide, nine out of 10 times, will survive — if they don’t use a gun. But suicide attempts with a firearm are almost always fatal: nine in 10 attempts end in death. For years,...
View ArticleGun Violence Researchers Braced for Trump’s Attacks. A Year Later, They’re...
The defining quality of being a gun violence researcher — other than measuring harm — may be constantly fighting for public health funding. This has been true for decades. But, one year into the...
View ArticleYoung People Are Watching the Minneapolis Shootings on Repeat — and It’s...
Last month, a video of Renee Good being fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis rattled the entire country. Then, a few weeks later, bystanders captured the shooting death of Alex Pretti at the...
View ArticleWith ‘Safeguarding,’ Gun Owners Take Firearms Out of Their Own Hands
Violence prevention groups and researchers have spent years working on initiatives to get firearms out of the hands of people who may pose a danger to themselves or others. Their most prominent...
View ArticleThe Year in Gun Violence Solutions
Whenever I pick up the phone and call anyone working in gun violence prevention or gun violence research, the conversation usually starts with a “How are you doing?” followed by the inevitable...
View ArticleWhat Researchers Learned About American Gun Violence in 2025
This year has been a turbulent one for academia as a whole — and gun violence research was no exception. Since President Donald Trump returned to office, the nation’s leading health agencies have...
View ArticlePSAs Helped People Stop Smoking. Could They Do the Same to Prevent Gun Deaths...
Public health messaging has brought awareness to a number of national issues, from cigarette smoking to people not wearing their seatbelts. A recent public service announcement is aiming to do the...
View ArticleGovernment Shutdown Leaves Some Shooting Survivors in Limbo
Health care funding has emerged as the key sticking point in congressional negotiations to end the government shutdown, now in its third week. Democrats have refused to support any plan that does not...
View ArticleSupport of the NRA Is Linked to Support of Political Violence, New Research...
Last month, a gunman opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, killing two people and wounding another, before he fatally shot himself. Law enforcement is still...
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