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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HICRC Monthly Survey Results of Firearm Researchers published in Injury Prevention
An article published ahead of press in the journal Injury Prevention entitled “The Scientific Agreement on Firearm Issues” describes the scientific consensus among firearm researchers on many gun issues. Results of…
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HICRC article wins award for the best article of 2015 in the journal Injury Epidemiology
An article by David Hemenway and Sara Solnick entitled “Children and Unintentional Firearm Death” won the annual Jess Krauss award voted by the editors as the best article in the…
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Marie Claire and HICRC Partner on Survey
Among the many findings from the survey are that 12% of women are gun owners and 74% of women think that men and women have different mindsets about guns. Only…
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The US gun homicide rate is 25 times higher than that of the other advanced nations
An article in the American Journal of Medicine by HSPH graduate Erin Richardson Grinshteyn (Assistant Professor, University of Nevada-Reno) and David Hemenway compares the US violent death rate for 2010 with that…
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Over 100 children (aged 0-14) killed unintentionally with guns each year
An article in the journal Injury Epidemiology by David Hemenway and HSPH graduate Sara Solnick (Professor at the University of Vermont), finds that the Vital Statistics data (e.g., WISQARS) underestimates the number…
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Law Enforcement Officers more likely to be killed in states with more guns
An article by former HSPH occupational health post-doctoral fellow David Swedler and HSPH faculty Francesca Dominici and David Hemenway in the American Journal of Public Health found that LEO homicide rates were…