Do guns make us safer? Science suggests no
Conflicting statistics about guns—such as how many people in the U.S. use guns for self-defense each year, and whether or not the crime rate is tied to how many people own guns—was the subject of a recent podcast…
Gun violence is a public health issue
As the gun control debate reignited following the mass shooting at a nightclub in Florida, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public expert David Hemenway spoke to several news outlets about the state of firearms research. He said that…
Gun research faces roadblocks
There are tons of records about guns—who sells them, who buys them, and, if they were used in crimes, when and where—but those records don’t necessarily make it into any database available to researchers. Although evidence suggests that…
A better surveillance system for tracking police homicides
For immediate release: March 17, 2016 Boston, MA – Official counts of homicides by police seriously undercount incidents, according to a study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, but a relatively new national data system, currently…
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…
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…