NAMMembershipIG 20 | Firearm Injury Prevention

IG 20 | Firearm Injury Prevention

The potential scope of topics for this Interest Group include:

  • Evidence basis for firearm injury prevention, including innovative interventions, translation and implementation to scale, and identification of risk and protective factors.
  • Effective and appropriate interventions and local, state, national, and clinical policies to reduce firearm harm.
  • Gun violence and mental health
  • Social, economic, political, and ethical determinants of health related to current disparities and historical inequities which foster firearm-related injuries.
  • Firearm research methods and data infrastructure

2024 Meeting Topic – Firearm Violence and Deaths of Despair: Finding the Top 3 Things NAM Can Do To Elevate our Science and Motivate Evidence-Based Action
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Rebecca Cunningham, M.D. (Chair) President, University of Minnesota
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Charles Branas, Ph.D., (Co-chair), Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
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Megan Ranney, M.D., M.P.H., (Co-chair), Yale School of Public Health
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To join this Interest Group please contact Jamal Samuel at [email protected].
Subscribed members may write to all other members by addressing an email to:  [email protected]