Tens of thousands of firearm dealers across the country will now be required to run background checks on buyers. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,...
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2024 Capitol Hill Policy Briefing – U.S. Gun Violence Exported Abroad
Eugenio Weigend Vargas, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, participated in a panel for the 2024 Capitol Hill Policy Briefing - U.S. Gun...
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...
Media Mention: MI residents must now lock up guns when a minor is in the house
Michigan residents are now required by law to safely store their guns while a minor is in the house. There’s a range of devices Michigan residents can get to safely store their firearm, and many...
Media Mention: Active shooter defense is becoming big business in Texas. Experts ask if it’s paying off
As the rate of gun deaths grows in Texas, the pro-business state has turned to solutions that have transformed what it’s like to walk into schools and remade business priorities for executives who...