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Media Mention: How a new rule on the gun show ‘loophole’ would impact West MI
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, and Explosives (ATF) finalized a new rule, which mandates people who sell guns online, by mail, or at flea markets and firearm shows […]
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 Violence Exported Abroad on April 9. Dr. Weigend Vargas discussed his research around firearm imports and exports and their impact on not only the U.S., but […]
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 improve coordinated community response to opioid overdoses, University of Michigan researchers are placing near-real time data in the hands of public health and safety officers. […]
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 disaster. Hawaii DOE officials have repeatedly stressed that publishing school safety plans, which detail campuses’ responses to active shooters, fires and other crises, […]
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 and the Associate Chair for Research and Research Faculty Development in the Department of Psychiatry. She also is the Senior Associate Director of the Injury Prevention Center (IPC), […]
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, healthier and safer.” But Keep America Beautiful officials say the impact of the cleanup goes far beyond simply making communities look nicer. They point to […]
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 federal money goes to studying gun violence or preventing it. Dr. Rebecca Cunningham spoke with Kaiser Health News about the role research plays […]
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 Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention at the University of Michigan, presented her NINR-supported work on “Mental Distress as a Mediator between Racism Experience and Firearm Behavior among Asian […]
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 Center for School Safety at the University of Michigan. The toolkit is designed to help schools in their efforts to implement evidence-based methods to assess and respond […]
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