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Fewer guns in U.S. could mean far fewer suicides

Limiting access to guns could cut the rising suicide rate in the U.S. by over a third, according to recent analysis in the Washington Post. In 2014, nearly 43,000 Americans killed themselves, and half did so with guns,…

Police killings, police deaths a public health issue

Black men, compared to white men, were from five to 19 times at greater risk of a law enforcement-related death over the past 50 years, according to study led by Nancy Krieger, professor of social epidemiology at Harvard…

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…

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…