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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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. …
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Public Opinion on Carrying Firearms in Public Places
Using data from a nationally representative on-line survey conducted in 2015, authors Julia Wolfson and Stephen Teret from Johns Hopkins and HICRC’s Deborah Azrael and Matthew Miller examined US public…
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HICRC New England Journal of Medicine Perspective on Florida’s Physician Gag Rule Decision
A NEJM Perspective describes the long-awaited US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit 10-1 decision that affirmed that the First Amendment applies to speech between doctors and patients. The…
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HICRC New England Journal of Medicine Perspective on “Docs v Glocks”
A NEJM Perspective on the case of Wollschlaeger v. Governor of Florida describes the issues at stake in the upcoming decision concerning a Florida law which regulates physician’ speech concerning…