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January 4, 2017

HICRC article estimates that over 20% of firearm acquisitions in the past 2 years had no background check

Using data from a HICRC sponsored nationally representative survey of more than 1600 firearm owners, authors Matthew Miller, Lisa Hepburn and Deborah Azrael find that 22% of gun owners who…
December 3, 2016

David Hemenway receives 3rd Annual Pioneer Award from the Injury Free Coalition for Kids

At the 21st annual meeting of the Injury Free Coalition for Kids held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, David Hemenway received the Pioneer Award “for his leadership and exemplary career in…
November 15, 2016

HICRC Viewpoint on Reducing Suicide by Working with Gun Owner Groups

An article published ahead of press in the journal JAMA-Internal Medicine entitled “Reducing Suicides Through Partnerships Between Health Professionals and Gun Owner Groups–Beyond Docs vs Glocks” describes the work HICRC has done…
October 14, 2016

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…
June 29, 2016

HICRC American Journal of Medicine commentary on reducing suicide

An AJM (“the green journal”) commentary entitled “How Physicians Can Reduce Suicide–Without Changing Anyone’s Mental Health” describes effective ways physicians and others who see people in crisis can reduce suicide. …
March 18, 2016

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…
March 14, 2016

Finding Common Ground: Public health and gun advocates working together to reduce suicide

Cathy Barber, Elaine Frank and other public health experts have been working for the past few years with gun store owners, gun advocates and others to reduce suicide. To understand…
February 14, 2016

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…
January 13, 2016

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…
October 15, 2015

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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