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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 […]
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 […]
Mueller-Williams AC, Coughlin LN, Goldstick JE Abstract: Firearm violence poses a significant and increasing threat to well-being in the US. Per-capita firearm mortality rates increased by nearly 40% from 2014 to 2021, with especially large growth in the last 2 years of official data (2020-2021).1 Black and American Indian or Alaska Native US residents have seen the largest […]
Hans, Z., Cooper, C. E., & Zeoli, A. M. Abstract Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a pervasive and complex issue with significant social and public health implications. The nexus of firearms and intimate partner violence (IPV) is an especially dangerous one. However, little is known about how firearm involvement can influence the risk of […]
Weigend Vargas, E., Hans, Z., Wiebe, D. J., & Goldstick, J. E. Abstract Background:Firearm manufacturing and imports grew in the US during the mid-2000s. We hypothesise those increases corresponded to increased international firearms trafficking and in turn were associated with increases in firearm homicides abroad. Methods:We used the Global Burden of Disease database to quantify […]
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 […]
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 […]
April 12, 2024 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Hybrid event (in-person and virtual registration required) Register here Join us for the 2024 University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention Research Day on April 12. This hybrid event will highlight the Institute’s accomplishments over the past three years, as well as key research and programs that we […]
March 13, 2024 12:00 p.m. EST GCSI Ties Bar | 120 N Washington Ave., Lansing, MI 48933 Register here Last March, members of the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention were in Lansing to discuss research on firearms always as part of the discussion following multiple tragedies of firearm violence that struck our state. Since that time, multiple bills have passed the Michigan legislature and have […]