Harvard Injury Control Research Center
Our mission is to reduce the societal burden of injury and violence through surveillance, research, intervention, evaluation, outreach, dissemination, and training.
Books
- Henigan, Dennis A; Nicholson EB, Hemenway, David. Guns and the Constitution. Northampton, MA: Aletheia Press, 1995. The last chapter of this short book, “Guns, Public Health and Public Safety,” contains an interview with David Hemenway that explains the public health approach for reducing firearm injury.
- Hemenway, David. Private Guns and Public Health. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004. This book summarizes the literature on the relationship between guns and injuries and describes the public health approach to reducing firearm-related violence. A paperback edition with an Afterward summarizing the 2004-05 scientific literature was published in December 2006.