Dr. Zimmerman is the Marshall H. Becker Collegiate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education in the School of Public Health and editor of the Youth & Society. He is...
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Justin Heinze, PhD
Dr. Heinze is the director of the School Safety Section and co-director of the Research and Scholarship Core at the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention. He is also an Associate Professor in the...
Hsing-Fang Hsieh, PhD, MPH
Dr. Hsieh is a Research Associate Professor and co-director of the Education and Training Core at the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention at the University of Michigan. She earned her MPH and...
Call for submissions: Pilot grants to support firearm injury prevention work
The Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, based in the Office of the Vice President for Research, has initiated its inaugural round of pilot grants to generate knowledge and advance innovative...
Media Mention: How Mass Shootings Like Oxford Impact Communities and Mental Health
University of Michigan public health and psychology expert Dr. Marc Zimmerman talks about how mass violence affects everyone and how to cope on National Public Radio's WDET 101.9 FM in Detroit,...
Media Mention: Manslaughter charges against Michigan shooter’s parents break new legal ground
Reuters writes about the first case against parents of a teenager for failing to secure a gun used by a student in a school shooting. Read the full article.
Stateside Podcast: When the shooter is a child
Listen to Michigan Radio's Stateside Podcast following the school shooting in Oxford, Michigan on December 1, 2021 including Dr. Marc Zimmerman, Co-director of the Institute for Firearm Injury...
Media Mention: Most school shooters get their guns from home – and during the pandemic, the number of firearms in households with teenagers went up
Most school shooters obtain the firearm from home. And the number of guns within reach of high school-age teenagers has increased during the pandemic – highlighting the importance of locking...