The 2024 National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm Related Harms will highlight the current state of science and research on firearm injury prevention across the lifespan. Organized...
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Podcast: How Greening Initiatives Can Help Promote Peace
In the latest episode of the XCEPT Breaking Cycles of Violence miniseries, Dr Omar Mohammed and Dr Marc Zimmerman, interviewed by Dr Nafees Hamid (King’s College London), discuss how greening and...
Exposure to violence predicts callous-unemotional traits and aggression in adolescence in the context of persistent ethnic-political conflict and violence
Docherty, M., Decrop, R., McManamon, B., Boxer, P., Dubow, E. F., & Huesmann, L. R. (2023). Exposure to violence predicts callous-unemotional traits and aggression in adolescence in the context...
Residential Racial Segregation and Youth Firearm Aggression: Neighborhood Disadvantage and Exposure to Violence as Mediators
Lee, D. B., Stallworth, P., Cunningham, R. M., Walton, M. A., Neblett, E. W., & Carter, P. M. (2024). Residential Racial Segregation and Youth Firearm Aggression: Neighborhood Disadvantage and...
Media Mention: Teachers worry about getting hurt on the job when they intervene in student fights
Dr. Justin Heinze speaks with NPR about school violence and how teachers are impacted. Listen to the conversation
Media Mention: Ohio trails only Texas, Florida in unintentional shootings by kids: Can that be changed?
Unintentional shootings like this have played out 205 times across Ohio since 2015, according to data from Everytown For Gun Safety. Despite being the seventh largest state by population, Ohio is...
Faculty Member is Honored at NIH Event
On May 20, Institute faculty member, Elyse Thulin, PhD, was honored and shared a presentation at the National Institutes of Health's 17th Annual Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences...
Media Mention: Stopping the gun violence epidemic
Last year, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a landmark package of bills that included the establishment of extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) in Michigan. U-M faculty with diverse research...
Study shows emergency department screening tool can help better identify youth at risk of experiencing firearm violence
Clinicians across the United States may be better able to identify young adults and youth at risk of firearm violence exposure by implementing a new screening questionnaire, according to a study...
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...
Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center Co-hosts First Youth Learning Exchange in Washington, D.C.
Earlier this week, members of the Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center (MI-YVPC) hosted and participated in the first annual Youth Learning Exchange event in Washington, D.C. The Exchange...
Media Mention: Should the U.S. government decide who qualifies as a gun dealer?
The Justice Department has taken steps to close the so-called "gun show loophole." But there's a murky legal question: Who counts as a gun seller? Dr. April Zeoli speaks with NPR about the new rule.