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Curbing Gun Violence
Strategies for Change

Summary

Curbing Gun Violence: Strategies for Change 
Presented jointly with HuffPost
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Brief Video Highlight

Nearly 40,000 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S. in 2017 — the most in 20 years. And while mass shootings grab headlines, they account for a small part of gun-related murders in the country. Urban gun violence remains a tremendous —  and too often overlooked — burden on underserved communities. And suicides persist as accounting for the majority of U.S. gun deaths. As the seventh anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting approached, this Forum event examined contrasting facets of gun violence in America. Seeking to move the discussion past partisan debates, panelists grappled with ways to prevent gun violence in the most impacted communities and offer key, actionable steps that we can take now to reduce gun violence in the U.S.

Related resources:

  • GHELI Resource Pack: Gun Violence and Public Health (landing page)
  • The Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University (GHELI) supports interdisciplinary education about world health through the production, curation, and dissemination of educational public goods. Visit their interactive digital repository.

Part of: Policy Controversies.

Presented jointly with HuffPost

Image Credit: iStock: MariuszBlach

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Moderator

George Zornick
Deputy Enterprise Editor, HuffPost

Expert Participants

David Hemenway
Professor of Health Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center

Mike McLively
Senior Staff Attorney and Urban Gun Violence Initiative Director, Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence

Chana Sacks
Internist at Mass General and Co-Director of the MGH Center for Gun Violence Prevention

Ted Strickland
68th Governor of Ohio

Event Resources

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