Stop the suppression of gun research
The U.S. has more gun deaths per capita than any of the world’s two dozen highest-income countries. Yet the government, at the behest of the gun lobby, limits the collection of data on gun-related deaths, prevents researchers from…
Federal funding needed for gun violence research
David Hemenway, professor of health policy at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, discussed the need for federal funding for gun violence research in the May…
Stories from Aleppo: Medical workers under siege
March 23, 2017 – The stories told by health workers from Syria were heartbreaking. They spoke of making desperate attempts to save people injured in a chemical attack on a hospital… of struggling to save people’s eyesight after…
Guns and background checks
In this week’s episode: Public health and President Trump, plus a survey that's shedding new light on gun ownership in America.
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…
Gun owner groups, health professionals team up to prevent suicides
January 3, 2017 – At first blush, it may seem unusual that gun shop owners, firearm instructors, and gun rights stakeholders have been joining forces with health professionals to prevent gun-related suicides. But there’s a fledgling movement among…
‘Hot-spotting,’ how gun violence spreads, and living in America on $2 a day
1,000 experts converge to examine how to improve the health of society’s most vulnerable November 2, 2016 – In Camden, New Jersey—one of the poorest cities in the U.S.—a unique coalition of health care providers and community representatives…
Rate of serious injuries caused by police, security guards may be rising
The rate of serious injuries caused by police and/or security guards appears to have risen nearly 50% between 2001 and 2014, according to a new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health study of emergency room visits at…
Among youth born with HIV, those recently exposed to violence may have poorer clinical outcomes
Exposure to community violence may put the health of youth born with HIV infection at risk, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers. They found that children and youth with…
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…