As tablets and laptops have become common classroom tools, schools continue to wrestle with another device: the cell phone. Cell phones play a critical role in youth social and societal engagement...
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Emergency room intervention pairs smartphone, telehealth counseling to reduce risky firearm behavior
Among U.S. teens and young adults, firearm violence accounts for about 65,000 emergency department visits annually, and 60% of all firearm deaths in this age group are the result of interpersonal...
Now available: Pathways to Potential Evaluation Report
This report summarizes the findings of a study funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the effects of Pathways to Potential (P2P), a Michigan Department of Health and Human...
Community Violence Intervention Dashboard Goes Live
The Michigan State Police (MSP) Grants and Community Services Division (GCSD) and the University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention (IFIP) have launched an online resource designed...
Yasamin Kusunoki, PhD, MPH
Yasamin Kusunoki, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing and a Research Associate Professor and Director of the Training Program at the Population Studies Center within the...
Katie Edwards, PhD
Katie M. Edwards, PhD, is Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work and Director of the Interpersonal Violence Research Laboratory. Her community-engaged research focuses on...
Brian Hicks, PhD
Dr. Hicks' research has focused on examining the interplay among genetic, environmental, and developmental influences on the emergence, persistence, and desistence of substance use disorders,...
A.J. Million, PhD
A.J. is the Director of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. In 2017, he...
Briana Mezuk, PhD
Briana Mezuk is a Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, co-Director of the Data & Design Core of the Eisenberg Family Depression Center, and a faculty...
Peter Grau, PhD
Dr. Peter Grau is an Assistant Professor in the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychiatry, staff psychologist at the Ann Arbor VA, and research investigator at the VA Center for Clinical...
Brian Stork, MD, FACS
Dr. Stork is a community urologist in Muskegon, Michigan, and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Michigan. He practices general urology with a special...
Media Mention: Rethinking the campus mental health “crisis”: 3 things journalists should know
Headlines warn of a college mental health crisis. We hear statistics about high rates of depression and anxiety and the picture seems clear: Gen Z faces unprecedented challenges to their mental...