Patrick M. Carter, a faculty member in the Medical School and the School of Public Health and co-director of U-M’s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention and its Injury Prevention Center, has been...
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Media Mention: Big Rise Seen in Gun Deaths, Overdoses Among U.S. Kids
America's kids are safer now than a decade ago when it comes to many types of injury, with two glaring exceptions: drugs and guns. That's the crux of a new study that looked at injury trends among...
Media Mention: Anonymous Tips Now Accepted by Bibb County School District
Anonymous reporting systems have existed for decades, but the number of schools using them increased dramatically after the 2018 massacre at Parkland High School in Florida during which 17 staff and...
Media Mention: Tragic accidental deaths may be prevented if weapons are locked
In the 6 News Hope over Violence series of stories, the focus has been on gun safety and how effective and important gun locks are as a way to limit gun violence. Dr. Cindy Ewell Foster spoke with 6...
Media Mention: How The Supreme Court’s Next Gun Ruling Could Impact Mass Shootings
Next month, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in United States v. Zackey Rahimi — a landmark case that will decide whether it’s constitutional to strip gun rights from people under...
Study shows significant disparities in firearm injury, death among Hispanic populations
The rate of firearm homicide among Hispanic populations was more than two times higher than that of White non-Hispanics in 2021, the largest disparity in more than a decade, according to new...
Projects share $2.1M to aid firearm-injury prevention research
Five research teams at the University of Michigan recently received grants totaling $2.1 million to launch new projects designed to address the root causes of, and potential solutions for, important...
Media Mention: Study: Investing in community space leads to reduced crime in Indianapolis
A study, led by the University of Michigan School of Public Health in partnership with the nonprofit Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, shows that transforming a vacant space into a gathering space for...
Media Mention: UNC is a public, open campus. What do experts recommend to keep students, staff safe?
Three times in the less than one month since classes began for the fall semester, two public universities in North Carolina have been the sites of gun-related incidents. Dr. Marc Zimmerman speaks...
Media Mention: Extreme Risk Protection Order Cases in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment
Emmy Betz, MD, MPH, director of the University of Colorado Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative and professor of emergency medicine in the CU School of Medicine, led a study that examined Extreme...
Media Mention: Mental health problems, political extremism found in many who bought firearms during COVID pandemic
People who bought firearms during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic have much higher rates of recent suicidal thoughts, self-harm behaviors and intimate partner violence, compared with other...
Unlocked and loaded: How most gun-owning households with teens store firearms
More than a third of U.S. households with teens own firearms and more than two-thirds of these gun owners store at least one firearm unlocked and/or loaded, according to a new University of Michigan...