U-M livestream: Reducing the Risk: Firearms and Mental Health DATE: Noon-1 p.m. Thursday, May 16, 2024 EVENT: “Reducing the Risk: Firearms and Mental Health” Experts from the University of Michigan...
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Media Mention: Real-Time Opioid Overdose Data Improves Safety Response from Community
Opioid overdose deaths have grown ten-fold in Michigan since 2000, and the opioid epidemic continues to be a major public health crisis impacting thousands of Michiganders and their loved ones. To...
Media Mention: Gun violence prevention experts talk Newaygo County Shooting
A five-year-old boy was shot and killed in Garfield Township, MI in early April. Dr. Patrick Carter spoke with FOX 17 about the importance of evidence-based strategies for firearm violence prevention.
Media Mention: How Much Should People Know About A School’s Safety Plan? Officials Are Reluctant To Reveal Too Much
Students were not on campus when fires destroyed the King Kamehameha III school in Lahaina, but parents and teachers expressed concern about how the DOE would have handled student safety in the...
U-M Announces New Department Professorship
The Department of Psychiatry nominated and the Regents have approved Maureen Walton, PhD, MPH as the inaugural Toby Brzoznowski Research Professor effective March 1, 2024. Dr. Walton is Professor...
Media Mention: Keep America Beautiful Kicks off the 2024 Great American Cleanup
As featured in Yahoo! Finance, the Annual Spring-Cleaning Event Takes Place in Communities Across America “We’re calling on all Americans to join us to help make our nation cleaner, greener,...
Media Mention: Why Even Public Health Experts Have Limited Insight Into Stopping Gun Violence in America
Gun violence is among America’s most deadly and costly public health crises. But unlike other big killers — diseases like cancer and HIV or dangers like automobile crashes and cigarettes — sparse...
Media Mention: Dr. Hsieh and Firearm Injury Prevention Among Asian Americans
In November, NINR participated in the 2023 National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms, held in Chicago. Dr. Hsing-Fang Hsieh, research assistant professor in the...
School threat assessment toolkit now available to schools for violence prevention
University of Michigan, University of Virginia partner on effort to keep schools safe A new toolkit designed to support U.S. schools’ violence prevention efforts has been published by the National...
University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention Research Day
April 12, 2024 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Hybrid event (in-person and virtual registration required) Register here Join us for the 2024 University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention...
University of Michigan Wolverine Caucus
March 13, 2024 12:00 p.m. EST GCSI Ties Bar | 120 N Washington Ave., Lansing, MI 48933 Register here Last March, members of the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention were in Lansing to discuss...
Bioethics Grand Rounds: Toward a Firearms Justice Framework: Lessons from Reproductive Justice in the Effort to Mitigate the Health Impact of Gun Violence
March 13, 2024 12:00 p.m. EST BSRB Kahn Auditorium | 109 Zina Pitcher Pl, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Register here Join us, along with Michigan Medicine’s Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences of...