The University of Michigan has published a web-based toolkit designed to support the use and implementation of Michigan’s new extreme risk protection order, or ERPO, law. Also known as a red flag...
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Active shooter drills are meant to keep schools safe, but are they doing harm?
A new national effort to understand how active shooter drills may affect the health and well-being of K-12 students and school staff begins this week with the first meeting of a committee operating...
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,...
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...
U-M Livestream: Reducing the Risk: Firearms and Mental Health
U-M livestream: Reducing the Risk: Firearms and Mental Health Experts from the University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention will discuss tips about safe firearm safe storage and...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Unpacking Firearm Access and Firearm Violence Exposure Among American Indian or Alaskan Native and Black Adults
Mueller-Williams AC, Coughlin LN, Goldstick JE. Unpacking Firearm Access and Firearm Violence Exposure Among American Indian or Alaskan Native and Black Adults. JAMA Netw Open. 2024;7(3):e240020....
Firearm manufacturing and imports in the USA and their association to firearm homicides in Central America and the Caribbean, 1991-2019
Weigend Vargas E, Hans Z, Wiebe DJ, Goldstick JE. Firearm manufacturing and imports in the USA and their association to firearm homicides in Central America and the Caribbean, 1991-2019. Inj Prev....