Residents 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleWhat 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...
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