January 2023

January 2023

GOOD AFTERNOON,

The new year comes with great expectations. We are excited about our plans for 2023 and thankful for all the opportunities we had to share our work at the Consortium with all of you.

In this new year, we reaffirm our commitment to evidence-based and equitable approaches to gun violence prevention. To reflect on one of our achievements in the past year, we released the Racial Equity Impact Assessment tool and report in collaboration with many other organizations and we are proud to see it become a useful tool for policymakers and others focused on gun violence prevention.

Our newsletter subscription grew 37% in the last year. We hope to continue to be a good resource that adds to your day as we highlight the latest resources, research and upcoming events. Thank you for reading and for sharing our newsletter with colleagues and friends.

NEW RESOURCES

New York Times Magazine’s interactive dataset, Childhood’s Greatest Danger: The Data on Kids and Guns.
Center for Gun Violence Solutions’s report, Policies to Reduce Gun Violence in Illinois.

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

400 Million Guns Aren’t Going to Just Go Away. In San Jose, We’re Trying Something New – Op-ed from New York Times.
Democrats Prime Statehouses to Rewrite ‘Red Flag’ Gun Laws – Politico.
Philadelphia Records 500 Homicides for Second Year in a Row, a Tragic Milestone as the Gun Violence Crisis Continues – The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Reader was Right. American Gun Violence is not a ‘Tragedy’ – The Washington Post.
How Often Are Guns Involved in Accidental Deaths? – The Trace.
Homicides of Children Soared in the Pandemic’s First Year – New York Times.
Children Under Fire: Framing Gun Violence as a Public Health Epidemic – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
America’s Gun Epidemic is Deadlier than Ever, And There are Vast Disparities in Who’s Dying – CNN.
The Increase in Gun-Related Deaths During the Pandemic – Johns Hopkins Public Health on Call podcast.

UPCOMING EVENTS

January 18: Joyce Foundation webinar, Using Public Funding for Community Violence Intervention Strategies: Successes and Challenges
February 9: Center for Gun Violence’s Solutions Symposium on the Intersection of White Supremacy and Gun Violence.
February 28: The Annual Gun Violence Prevention Forum 2023, presented by Northwell Health.
April 17-19: The 2023 SAVIR annual conference in Denver, CO.

SELECTED RESEARCH ARTICLES

Dalve K, Ellyson AM, Gause EL, Lyons VH, Schleimer JP, Kuklinski MR, Oesterle S, Briney JS, Weybright EH, & Rowhani-Rahbar A. (2022). School handgun carrying among youth growing up in rural communities. The Journal of Adolescent Health: Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.10.033

Degli Esposti M, Hsieh HF, & Goldstick JE. (2022). Firearm injuries are a critical driver of health disparities in the United States. JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.44240

Karnick AT, Bond AE, Kaufman EJ, Anestis MD, & Capron DW. (2022). Injury characteristics and circumstances of firearm trauma: Assessing suicide survivors and decedents. Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12916

Knoll J, & Dietz P. (2022). Mass violence and the complex spectrum of mental illness and mental functioning. JAMA Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.4191

Rees CA, Monuteaux MC, Steidley I, Mannix R, Lee LK, Barrett JT, & Fleegler EW. (2022). Trends and disparities in firearm fatalities in the United States, 1990-2021. JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.44221

Wilson RF, Fortson BL, Zhou H, Lyons BH, Sheats KJ, Betz CJ, Blair JM, & Self-Brown S. (2022). Trends in homicide rates for US children aged 0 to 17 Years, 1999 to 2020. JAMA Pediatrics. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.4940

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