Gun Violence in America.
SPH THIS WEEK | SPECIAL EDITION
May 29, 2022
VIEWPOINT
We know how to fix the problem of gun violence, so why haven’t we acted on it? In a new BU Today viewpoint, Dean Sandro Galea pushes for action "again and again, in defiance of the numbness we may be tempted to feel."
POLICY
In the wake of the latest mass shooting at a US school, SPH community members Michael Ulrich, Jonathan Jay, Julia Raifman, George Annas, Rachel Martin, Craig Andrade, Ziming Xuan, and Carol Dolan discuss critical policies and strategies that are urgently needed to prevent more senseless deaths.
RESEARCHChildhood firearm violence exposure increased for almost all non-White racial groups during the pandemic, according to a recent study led by Rachel Martin and Jonathan Jay. |
RESEARCHLed by Jonathan Jay, the study found that Black and Hispanic men who were unemployed were more likely to experience firearm injuries, highlighting the disproportionate consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for marginalized populations. |
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATIONAt the May 2020 SPH symposium "Guns: A Global Epidemic," gun safety experts from the US to Australia discussed gun violence as a global health issue that requires multidimensional solutions. |
PUBLIC HEALTH CONVERSATIONRepresentatives of public health schools, institutions, and advocacy groups convened at SPH in November 2016 to build consensus on gun violence as a public health threat. |
SCHOOL NEWS
A March 2019 summit for regional student activists featured advocacy workshops, speeches by Attorney General Maura Healey and US Representative Ayanna Pressley, and a mural project led by the father of slain Parkland student Joaquin Oliver.
PUBLIC HEALTH POSTMedia coverage of incidents of gun violence often focuses on characteristics of individual perpetrators. Contextual factors, including gun access and violent crime at the population level, receive far less attention. |
FACULTY PROFILESince joining SPH in 2010, Ziming Xuan has led local, national, and international studies to examine interventions and methodologies that reduce harms associated with these issues. |
PUBLIC HEALTH POST
States passed right-to-carry laws under the expectation that they would decrease crimes. Evidence now contradicts the basic premise of right-to-carry laws.
In the Media.
BOSTON HERALD
Quotes Davidson Hamer, professor of global health, and Matthew Fox, professor of epidemiology and global health.
NPR
Quotes Jonathan Levy, chair and professor of environmental health.
CONSUMER HEALTHDAY
Quotes PhD student Paige Brochu and mentions research by Brochu; Kevin Lane, assistant professor of environmental health; Patrick Kinney, Beverly A. Brown Professor of Urban Health; and Marcia Pescador Jimenez, assistant professor of epidemiology.
NPR
Interview with Madeleine Scammell, associate professor of environmental health.
STAT
Opinion by Cecille Joan Avila, senior policy analyst in the Department of Health Law, Policy & Management.
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