Violence & Firearm Injury
Our scholars work in a variety of areas such as intimate partner violence, child maltreatment, community and youth violence, firearm violence and accidental injury, homicide, self-harm and suicide, and the trauma that contributes to the occurrence of violence and which remains after violence takes place. These efforts span the three levels of prevention (primary, secondary, and tertiary) to Stop It – Fix It – and Live On.
Projects
Publications & News
Toolkits
Implement Cure Violence in Your Community – from Cure Violence Global
Cardiff Violence Prevention Model Toolit – from the CDC
Firearm Injury and Death Prevention Strategies – three intervention toolkits from the Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center
EveryStat – a data tool for firearm injury and death in the United States
Briefs
Group Violence Intervention Issue Brief – from the National Network For Safe Communities at John Jay College
Preventing Unintentional Injury & Death Among Youth: Examining the Evidence – a brief from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Policy Lab
Our Experts
Elinore Kaufman, MD, MSHP
Assistant Professor
Department of Surgery, Division of Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine
Medical Director, Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program
Therese Richmond, PhD, RN, FAAN
Research Core Director
Andrea B. Laporte Professor of Nursing
Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
Sara Jacoby, PhD, MPH, RN
Associate Professor of Nursing, Calvin Bland Fellow
Department of Family and Community Health, School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania
Ruth Abaya, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Director of Injury Prevention, Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Mucio "Kit" Delgado, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
David Humphreys, PhD
Associate Professor of Evidence-Based Intervention and Policy Evaluation, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford University
Dan Romer, PhD
Research Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
Michelle Degli Esposti, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher, Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil)
Rachel Myers, PhD, MS
Research Scientist, Center for Injury Research and Prevention, Children's Hopsital of Philadelphia
Research Assistant Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Emily Perkins, PhD
Chidinma Nwakanma, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Attending Physician, Penn Prebyterian Emerency Department and Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
Meghan Brooks Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP, FCCM
Vice Chair of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity and David E. Longnecker Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Director of Acute Care Implementation Research, Penn Implementation Science Center at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Joel Fein, MD, MPH
Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Bernadette Hohl, PhD
Senior Research Investigator
Penn Injury Science Center and Philadelphia Department of Public Health
Millan AbiNader, LMSW, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Social Practice & Policy, University of Pennsylvania
John MacDonald, PhD
Gabriela Khazanov, PhD
Research Psychologist, Center of Excellence for Substance Addiction Treatment and Education (CESATE) at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center
Research Associate, Center for Mental Health, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Desmond Upton Patton, PhD, MSW
Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor
Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor
School of Social Policy & Practice and the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Director, SAFELab