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.
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Harvard Injury Control Research Center Lunchtime Lectures: Joshua Aiken and Brennan Gardner Rivas
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…
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Reducing fall injury with better data
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…
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Explaining the public health approach
HICRC has been promoting and explicating the public health approach for decades, across a wide variety of venues. In the past few months, interviews with David Hemenway have appeared in…
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A wave of gun violence research
While recent news has covered threats to government funding for gun violence prevention research and critical data systems, we’re reminded of HICRC Director Dr. David Hemenway’s 2022 interview with the Harvard Gazette: …
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Standards writing and standardization remain important and underappreciated endeavors in reducing injuries
My first book was on voluntary standards (Hemenway, Industrywide Voluntary Product Standards, 1975) and their important in the US and world economies. The effects of standards on markets and the…
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US remains an outlier in terms of firearm deaths compared to the other high-income countries
US firearm homicide rates were 25 times higher and overall homicide rates were 7.5 times higher than rates in the other high-income countries (2015). 92% of all women killed by…
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Firearm training is not associated with safe firearm storage practices
Using data from HICRC’s 2015 national firearm survey, we found that 30% of gun owners stored at least one gun loaded and unlocked. Among gun owners who had received formal…
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The National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) is a good source of data on fatal police shootings
HICRC compared the NVDRS data on fatal shootings of civilians by law enforcement officers in the United States with 5 open-source data sets (FatalEncounters.org, Mapping Police Violence, the Guardian’s ‘The…