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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Why People Die Before They Expect To
David Hemenway and his son Brett, a mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania, published their first article together on the simple fact that your (conditional) life expectancy is always positive…
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About 1 million Americans become new gun owners each year
Using data from the HICRC sponsored National Firearms Survey, we examined differences between new and long-standing gun owners. New owners are younger, own fewer guns, are more likely to own…
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Hemenway wins HSPH Inaugural Community Engagement Award.
David Hemenway received the Harvard Chan Student Association’s inaugural Community Engagement Award which recognizes faculty, researchers or staff who have served as a source of inspiration by demonstrating a commitment…
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Hemenway wins public health leadership award
David Hemenway gave a talk at Brookline Public Library and received the 19th Annual Alan Balsam Public Health Leadership Award from the Friends of Brookline Public Health for his outstanding…
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About 1 million Americans become new gun owners each year
Using data from the HICRC sponsored National Firearms Survey, we examined differences between new and long-standing gun owners. New owners are younger, own fewer guns, are more likely to own…
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HICRC hosts two outstanding injury experts this Spring as Visiting Scientist
Marcelo Justus (dos Santos), a PhD economist from Brazil is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economics in the University of Campinas (Unicamp). An expert on statistical analysis, he has written…
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The importance of good data systems
In an essay in a statistical journal, David Hemenway highlights the important of data systems (i.e., data collected consistently and comparably across sites and over time), provides examples of the need to…
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Firearm storage in homes with children at risk for self-home
Using data from the HICRC-sponsored National Firearms Survey of close to four thousands adults, HICRC researchers found that millions of US children live in homes in which firearms are left…
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Few urban Mexican homes contain firearms
Data from a 2017 household telephone survey of over 1,300 adults living in nine Mexican cities found that only 3% of homes contain firearms. Most individuals who report owning firearms…