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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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…
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HICRC Injury Seminar.
Peter Donnelly, Professor of Public Health Policy at St. Andrews University, Scotland will speak on the “Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention.” All welcome. Thursday 12:30-1:20. Room 502 Kresge Related…
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Dahianna Lopez works to create first Boston bicycle safety report
To solve a problem we need to know what is going on. University-wide Health Policy PhD student Dahianna Lopez–who worked at the San Francisco injury center and is now with…
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Matt Miller wins HSPH mentoring award
Matthew Miller, co-director of HICRC won the school-wide award as the best mentor at Harvard School of Public Health. Suicide is the leading cause of injury death in the United…
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Preventing gun violence by changing social norms
David Hemenway has a Viewpoint in JAMA- Internal Medicine that describes many social norms that can be changed to reduce gun violence, with examples of relevant successes from other areas. Related…
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Public health approach to the prevention of gun violence
David Hemenway and Matthew Miller have a Sounding Board article in the New England Journal of Medicine that describes the public health approach with respect to gun violence. It emphasizes that manufacturers…