Suicides at gun ranges have prompted rules changes
Commenting in the wake of a double suicide at a Massachusetts gun range, Cathy Barber, a researcher with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Injury Control Research Center, told the Boston Globe that such events are traumatizing…
Women and guns: It’s complicated
Whether they favor gun ownership or gun control, women’s voices are often drowned out of the national conversation around firearms in the United States, according to a new report by Marie Claire in collaboration with the Harvard Injury…
U.S. firearm death rate ten times higher than other high-income countries
When compared with people living in 22 other high-income nations, Americans are ten times more likely to be killed by a gun, according to a new study by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and…
Gun violence addressed in reddit ‘AMA’
There’s been a heightened focus on gun violence in the U.S. On January 5, 2016, President Barack Obama announced new executive actions to reduce the number of mass shootings, suicides, and killings. On January 7, he held a…
David Hemenway will discuss gun violence in reddit ‘AMA’
Q & A will precede President Obama’s town hall on reducing gun violence On January 5, 2016 President Barack Obama announced a series of executive actions intended to reduce the number of mass shootings, suicides, and killings that…
Call for police killings, police deaths to be reported as notifiable weekly public health data
For immediate release: December 8, 2015 Boston, MA – Although no reliable official data currently exist on the number of law enforcement-related deaths each year in the U.S., counting these deaths can and should be done because the…
Exploring the increase in public mass shootings
Even though there’s a running debate as to what exactly constitutes a “mass shooting,” Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s David Hemenway says that the more “public” kind of shootings—like the one on December 2, 2015 in…
Living with guns rather than dying with guns
Even with widespread access to guns in the U.S., there are still many things that can be done to reduce gun violence, such as adding common-sense safety mechanisms to guns or—even more simply—urging gun owners to lock up…
How to cut gun deaths
Reducing the number of guns or reducing access to guns would lead to fewer gun deaths. Another way to cut gun violence would be to treat it as a public health issue and establish stricter gun regulations. So…
States with tighter gun laws have fewer armed youth on the streets
When states have strict gun laws, teens are less likely to carry guns on the streets, according to a new study by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston University researchers. The authors also found youth…