Our mission is to reduce the societal burden of injury and violence through surveillance, research, intervention, evaluation, outreach, dissemination, and training.
In April, David Hemenway was presented with the SAVIR (Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research) President’s award for “distinguished lifetime achievement. This award is the highest that…
HICRC is proud to announce the launch of the road safety campaign, Project Look Out. Directed by Jay A. Winsten, Ph.D., Project Look Out envisions the public street as a…
In his academic year stay at HICRC (2023-20240, UK physician and Harkness Fellow Vageesh Jain wrote 4 papers on firearm issues, two which have already been published. In the first,…
Matt Miller, Co-Director of HICRC, has been elected into the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). This honor is in recognition of a quarter century of epidemiologic research on firearm injuries…
Deb Azrael, Director of Research at HICRC for more than a quarter century, won the 2024 Excellence in Science Award from the Injury Control section of the American Public Health…
In June, Cathy Barber was the sole recipient of the prestigious lifetime achievement award from the nation’s largest non-profit organization exclusively dedicated to suicide prevention. This is such a tribute…
Joshua Aiken will explore the relationship between the mass proliferation of handguns in America and political, economic, and cultural responses to the black freedom struggle. Using the personal papers of federal…
From 2001-2021, the number of Americans dying from unintentional falls increased from 15 thousand to over 44 thousand. In a recent commentary in Injury Epidemiology, David Hemenway, Elizabeth Peterson and Jonathan…
Engaging with pro-gun communities to promote the safe storage of guns may be key to decreasing rates of suicide, according to experts from Harvard Chan School.
