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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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…
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Responding to the Newtown Tragedy
The tragic shooting in Newtown brought unprecedented demand for information about firearms. We have appeared on TV and radio programs around the world (e.g., Brazil, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway,…
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States with stronger firearm laws have fewer gun deaths
Researchers at Boston Children’s hospital and David Hemenway have a study in JAMA-Internal Medicine that finds that states with more firearm laws have lower rates of firearm suicide and firearm homicide. Eric…
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Curbing gun violence: lessons from public health successes
HSPH faculty, including David Hemenway have an opinion piece in JAMA arguing that reductions in tobacco use and in child poisonings, and improvements in motor vehicle safety, provide lessons for firearm firearm…