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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Most veterans do not own firearms
Using data from the HICRC sponsored National Firearms Survey, which oversampled US veterans, researchers provided detailed, nationally representative information on firearm ownership among US veterans. About 47% of male veterans…
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Lessons learned from generating Boston’s first report on bicycle injuries
HICRC’s Dahianna Lopez worked with the Boston Police Department, with help from bicycle advocates, to produce Bostn’s first cyclist safety report. The report highlighted issues and areas where polices could…
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Few Americans understand that a gun in the home increases the risk of completed suicide
While the overwhelming majority of firearms researchers and suicide experts agree that a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide, that knowledge has yet to reach the general…
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Private Guns Public Health republished with a new preface
The University of Michigan Press (2017) has just released a new copy of David Hemenway’s book on firearms and public health which was originally published in 2004. It has a…
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Public Opinion on Selling Guns to a Stranger without a Background Check
One way that guns get into the wrong hands is via gun sales without a background check. Using data from a nationally representative on-line survey conducted in 2015, HICRC’s David…
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David Hemenway discusses the lack of data and funding for firearms research
In “Fighting the silencing of gun research” in the journal Nature, David Hemenway argues that as anti-science sentiment sweeps the world, it is vital to stop the suppression of firearms studies. …