Gun Violence and Public Health

Mar 7, 2019
Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Aug 27, 2021
The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- the nation's top public health agency -- is speaking out forcefully about gun violence in America, calling it a "serious public health threat."

Jun 28, 2022
At a House Oversight Committee hearing earlier this month, Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD) spoke about gun violence.

Apr 19, 2021
Dr. Fauci declared gun violence a public health issue in the wake of dozens of mass shootings in recent weeks.

The following is a list of books, including fiction and nonfiction, that are appropriate for young adults and teenagers that deal with being intimately affected by gun violence.

Oct 22, 2019
"That young man taught me that most of what I thought I knew about gun violence, was actually a myth," says emergency physician and AFFIRM Chief Research Officer Dr. Megan Ranney. In this inspiring talk, she shares what she has learned about what gun violence really is, why public health can work to solve it, her mission to create change.... and 3 steps we all can take to make a difference.

In the latest episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, and Roger A. Mitchell Jr., MD, chair of the Department of Pathology at Howard University College of Medicine, have a compelling and informative discussion on gun violence as a public health crisis and how the academic medicine community can come together to address prevention.

Nov 4, 2016
David Hemenway, Ph.D., Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, discusses the firearms, police, and public health at an NIJ Research for the Real World Seminar.

Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely