Harvard Chan School experts shed light on link between guns and suicides, gun injuries
The relationship between firearms and suicide, as well as firearms injury data, were among the topics of studies from experts at Harvard Chan School that appeared in the December 2022 issue of the journal Preventive Medicine.
More women are becoming gun owners
During 2020, amid the pandemic, civil unrest over social justice issues, and a contested election, more people bought guns—and most were women, according to recent news reports.
Counseling parents on safe storage of guns and medications may help prevent youth suicide
Reducing a suicidal person’s access to the most lethal methods, particularly firearms, can play an important role in preventing deaths.
Report: Rising Utah suicide rates propelled by guns
Suicides outnumber homicides in Utah eight to one and the state’s suicide rate has been rising for a decade—with the increase driven by guns, according to a new report from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Half…
At gun violence press conference, students, mothers call for action
On February 20, in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood, U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dean Michelle Williams joined local students and community members whose lives have been affected by gun violence for…
Three million Americans may carry loaded handgun daily
An estimated three million Americans carry a loaded firearm daily, and an estimated nine million do so on a monthly basis, according to new study.
Guns and public health
In the wake of a mass shooting on October 1 in Las Vegas that left at least 59 people dead, we speak with an expert about the public health approach to gun control.
Even as more gun buyers undergo background checks, millions still don’t
The percentage of people in the U.S. purchasing firearms without a background check appears to be significantly lower than the most recent estimate more than two decades ago, according to new research from Harvard T.H. Chan School of…
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…
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…