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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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…
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Self-defense gun use article
Data come from the National Crime Victimization Survey 2007-2011. Self-defense gun use occurred in fewer than 1% of all contact crimes reported. Males and rural dwellers were most likely to…
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Who should be given a carry permit? Survey of police in a may-issue state.
For public safety, whom would you like to decide who can legally carry a concealed firearm–a federal computer or your local police chief? We conducted a survey of police chiefs…
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LA Times Op-ed discusses our firearm researcher surveys
This article discusses the rationale and findings from our monthly surveys of scientists who have recently published articles in peer reviewed journals on firearms. “Scientific consensus isn’t always right, but…
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Rolling Stone Magazine publicizes results of our firearm researcher survey.
Results posted on our website (“Firearm Researcher Surveys”) were highlighted by Rolling Stone in an article provocatively entitled “New Harvard Research Debunks the NRA’s Favorite Talking Points.” The article reports…