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Reducing gun suicides in New Hampshire
Although mass shootings like those at high schools in Santa Fe, Texas and Parkland, Florida have dominated the headlines, most gun-related deaths in the U.S. are actually suicides. In New Hampshire, an unlikely team of gun owners and…
Arming teachers a bad idea
In the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., President Donald Trump has proposed that teachers carry concealed weapons in order to defend against would-be school shooters. But an expert at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
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…
Same-sex marriage laws linked with fewer teen suicide attempts
Young Americans living in states where same-sex marriage was legalized were significantly less likely to attempt suicide than those living in states without such laws, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health…
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…
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,…
Church attendance may lower suicide risk in women
Women who attend religious services at least once a week may have a lower risk of suicide than those who never attend services, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
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…
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…