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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Mass Public Shootings have tripled since 2011.
HICRC researchers Amy P. Cohen, Deborah Azrael and Matthew Miller reported in Mother Jones that the United States has entered a new period in which mass shootings in public places are occurring…
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Monthly Survey of Gun Researchers
HICRC has begun sponsoring very short monthly surveys of gun researchers. The first survey found that a large majority agreed with the statement “In the United States, having a gun…
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Boston Bicycle Crash Map Released
HICRC’s own Dahianna Lopez has been a driving force in working with multiple agencies to assemble a useful database of bicycle crashes in Boston. A comprehensive report was released this…
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Harvard Article on HICRC’s Suicide Research Wins Award
Madeline Drexler, editor of Harvard Public Health, wrote an excellent article last year on Guns and Suicide: The Hidden Toll which highlighted the research, dissemination and translation activities of HICRC. That…
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Visiting Suicide Scholar from Hong Kong
Dr. Sylvia Kwok, Associate Professor of Applied Social Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong, joined HICRC for three days. Dr. Kwok’s research focus is on the use of…
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Report to Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives on Gun Violence
An 8-person advisory committee to Speaker DeLeo issued their report listening 44 recommendations to reduce firearm violence in the Commonwealth. The committee included police, a criminal defense attorney, mental health…
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A gun in the home increases the risk of suicide
An editorial (“Guns, Suicide, and Homicide: Individual-Level vs Population-Level Studies”) in the Annals of Internal Medicine discusses the findings of a meta-analysis of case-control studies that concludes that having a gun in…
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More guns in cities means more gun suicide, more total suicide
An article in Injury Prevention by Matthew Miller and other HICRC researchers finds that across metropolitan areas, higher rates of firearm ownership are strongly associated with higher rates of firearm suicide and…
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Dahianna Lopez honored by the Boston Police Department
For her work in helping to create the first city-wide report on bicycle safety and bicycle crashes for the city of Boston, Dahianna received a Commissioner’s Commendation “in recognition for…