An Arizona State University criminology and criminal justice professor who is a nationally recognized expert on gun violence is the new president of the Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms.
Professor Jesenia Pizarro recently returned from the national organization’s third annual conference, held Dec. 9-11 in Seattle, where she began her two-year term as its president following service in 2023-2024 as the society’s inaugural secretary.
More than 800 researchers, mostly academics, attended the 2024 conference to hear more than 400 presentations from experts at over 250 institutions. More than two dozen research disciplines were represented in the presentations, including medicine, public health, anthropology, business, economics, criminology/criminal justice, sociology, social work and engineering.
The society organized the conference with support from the University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, the Columbia Scientific Union for the Reduction of Gun Violence (SURGE) and ASU’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Here is a complete list of the conference’s sponsors.