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Gun Violence Affects Suicide Risk Among Black People, Study Finds
Black adults exposed to various forms of gun violence may be at significant risk of suicidal ideation at some point during their lifetime, according to the results of a new study correlating gun...
View ArticleAn Emerging Group of Researchers Is Changing Our Understanding of Gun Violence
It was a warm summer day in 2021 when graduate student Nazsa Baker got a phone call from a family member that would change her trajectory in urban health. Her older cousin had been shot twice as he...
View ArticleTeachers Say They’re Struggling With the Reality of Guns In Schools
When a minor earthquake struck the East Coast last week, second-grade teacher Abbey Clements saw the fearful look in her students’ eyes, “searching for answers and safety in me.” It was a look she and...
View ArticleMost Veterans Own a Gun — and Many Keep It Loaded
More than half of military veterans with access to firearms store them unsafely, and nearly 40 percent store their guns loaded, according to a new study published this month. Led by researchers at...
View ArticleRichmond, Virginia, Is the Latest City to Try a Youth Curfew to Reduce Gun...
Featured Story Amid a surge in gun violence, city leaders in Richmond, Virginia, announced that they are enforcing an 11 p.m. curfew for minors, an initiative they’ve dubbed “Operation Safe Summer.”...
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Losing Her Daughter to Gunfire Left Her Inconsolable. A Trauma Recovery...
This March, Alexis Jackson worked tirelessly to make sure all the details of her oldest daughter’s Sweet 16 were perfect: a heart-shaped cake in Abe’bre’anna’s favorite color, purple; a glittering...
View ArticleIn a Decade, Firearm Deaths Among Young Black People in Rural America Have...
For decades, the narrative of gun violence and homicide has been framed as an urban plight disproportionately affecting Black communities in densely populated Northeastern and Midwestern cities. But a...
View ArticleCould a Holistic Approach to Gun Violence Reporting Help Victims?
In the fall of 2022, when I first started working at The Trace, I had the opportunity to attend the Association of Health Care Journalists’ summit on reporting on violence as a public health issue....
View Article‘This Is Our Lane’: Health Experts to Lead First-Of-Its-Kind Anti-Violence...
Brady United, a national gun violence prevention group, announced today the launch of its first national advisory council, whose goal is to address gun violence through a public health lens by placing...
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Gun Violence Prevention Services Can’t Reach Everyone. Telehealth Could Help.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chuka Emezue watched as a few men in the domestic violence intervention program he directed struggled to stay awake or were distracted in remote video calls....
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Arkansas’s Many Shooting Victims Share a Single Trauma Center. This...
When Nakita Lovelady matriculated to the graduate program at the University of Arkansas, her evenings were spent studying by the dim light in her Little Rock apartment, where she scribbled down notes,...
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In 2019, Congress Finally Funded Gun Violence Research. Here’s How It’s...
In the mid-2010s, as a series of mass shootings set new records for lethality and turned the public’s attention toward America’s gun violence epidemic, the same question was raised again and again:...
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When Pregnancy Makes You a Target
Adrienne Rodriguez held her head high as she walked to the front of the courtroom. On her right, her friends and relatives filled the three wooden pews in the back of the room. To her left, the rows...
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Can a Health Care Approach Abate the Maternal Homicide Crisis?
Nearly 15 years ago, as 20-year-old Emily Likins-Ehlers was navigating their entry into adulthood, they became pregnant by an abusive partner. It thrust Likins-Ehlers, whose pronouns are they/them,...
View Article‘A Direct Attack on Science:’ Trump’s Return Is Rattling Gun Violence...
In November 2024, as he awaited the fallout from the presidential election results, Dr. Garen Wintemute gathered a group of his colleagues at UC Davis to plan how they would download the thousands of...
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What If Medical Experts Tracked the Lethality of Bullets Like Smallpox,...
The 5.56 NATO bullet has been used in some of the country’s most horrific public mass shootings — including the ones so deadly that we refer to them by shorthand. Sandy Hook. Parkland. Aurora. Uvalde....
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Teens Are More Likely to Arm Themselves in Cluttered, Violence-Plagued...
Residents’ perception of disorder in their neighborhoods — litter, abandoned buildings, public drug use, robust police presence — may be leading more young people to carry a gun, according to a new...
View ArticleHow Disrupting the Department of Education Could Hurt Shooting Survivors
Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing his administration’s education secretary to “take all necessary steps” to effectively dissolve the Department of Education. To...
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Maternal Homicide Is Very Common — Particularly in These States
When epidemiologist Maeve Wallace first began publishing national data on pregnancy-associated homicide and suicide nine years ago, she knew that more granular numbers would be essential to...
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