Two University of Michigan faculty members, along with more than 40 experts, have co-authored a report on the challenges of firearm violence in the U.S. The report is based on the convening of the JAMA Summit on Firearm Violence, which convened 60 thought leaders from a wide array of disciplines in Spring 2024 to chart an innovations roadmap that will lead to substantial reductions in firearm harms by 2040. The two U-M faculty members are Institute co-director Dr. Marc Zimmerman and director of the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, Dr. John Ayanian.
Since the start of the 21st century, more than 800 000 firearm deaths and more than 2 million firearm injuries have occurred in the US. All categories of firearm violence—homicide, suicide, unintentional—result in reverberating harms to individuals, families, communities, and society. The collective responsibility of society is to safeguard the health and safety of its members, including from firearm harms. View the full report.
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