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Media Mention: Solutions to U.S. Gun Violence Hinge on Election
In 2020, the last time the presidency was on the ballot, firearm injuries became the leading cause of death among children. This June, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared firearm violence a public health crisis, pointing to 48,204 deaths from firearms in 2022. Dr. Pat Carter speaks with Think Global Health about firearm injury prevention research and its critical […]
Media Mention: In 2019, Congress Finally Funded Gun Violence Research. Here’s How It’s Changed the Field
In the mid-2010s, as a series of mass shootings set new records for lethality and turned the public’s attention toward America’s gun violence epidemic, the same question was raised again and again: Why won’t the federal government fund gun violence research? Twice as much federal money was being spent on hernias and ulcers, which aren’t usually fatal, as on gun […]
Conversations between clinicians and their patients about firearms could save lives
Health care providers who counsel their patients about firearm safety and prevention could prevent future injury or death, including suicides, violent injuries and unintentional injuries resulting from firearms, according to a University of Michigan report. In an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at U-M’s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention make the case […]
65 million Americans now own firearms for protection, suggests survey
Some 65 million Americans now own firearms for protection—around 80% of the country’s estimated 81 million gun owners—suggest the results of a nationally representative survey carried out in 2023, and published online in the journal Injury Prevention. This perceived need is changing the profile of gun owners, the findings indicate, with increasing numbers of women and […]
Media Mention: State budget supports U-M’s education, economic development efforts
The Michigan Legislature passed a 2024-25 general fund and education omnibus budget June 27, allocating a modest increase for the University of Michigan Ann Arbor campus’ operations and significant investments in the university’s economic development and innovation efforts, as well as firearm injury prevention and safety. The spending plan now goes to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer […]
Surgeon general declares firearm violence a public health crisis: U-M experts available
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has declared firearm violence a public health crisis, saying it’s time to deploy approaches similar to lifesaving anti-smoking and traffic safety campaigns to decrease deaths and injuries caused by guns. Researchers at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, School of Public Health and Michigan Medicine have endorsed this […]
Injury Prevention Science and Firearm Injury in Pediatric Health
In an accompanying editorial published in JAMA, Drs. Patrick Carter, Laura Seewald and Marc Zimmerman note the findings from a recent study highlight the critical and urgent need for the U.S. to address firearm injury using established public health principles and science that parallel those that have been applied to other leading causes of death, […]
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: 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 times they are free. Dr. Patrick Carter spoke with WSJM about some of the options.
Media Mention: As guns rise to leading cause of death among US children, research funding to help prevent and protect victims lags
More children die from guns than anything else in the United States, but relatively little funding is available to study how to prevent these tragedies. From 2008 to 2017, about $12 million in federal research awards were granted to study pediatric firearm mortality each year – about $600 per life lost, according to a study published in Health Affairs. […]
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