Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Center for Gun Policy and Research

Legal Issues

The Center monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of major gun laws, including those related to: "Saturday night special" handguns; handgun registration and licensing; child access prevention; and minimum purchase and possession age. More

Gun Trafficking

The Center is committed to studying and reducing illegal firearm trafficking. The Center's work in this area focuses on the role of gun dealers, straw purchases, and firearm theft in the transfer of guns from legal to illegal markets. More

Domestic Violence

The Center studies policies and behaviors related to gun violence perpetrated by domestic violence offenders. Center research seeks to identify whether current legal practices effectively keep guns out of the hands of batterers. More

Keeping Guns from Youth

The Center studies policies and behaviors related to gun access and carrying among youth. Center research focuses on trends and prevention of youth homicide, suicide, violence, and unintentional injury by firearms. More

Education

Center faculty play important roles in educating Johns Hopkins public health students who are interested in the prevention of gun violence. Courses at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health addressing gun violence prevention include: Issues in Injury and Violence Prevention, Understanding and Preventing Violence, Public Health and the Law, Making Change Through Policy, and Epidemiologic Methods in Injury and Violence Control. Center faculty also participate in training programs for students interested in violence prevention.

Graduate Seminar in Injury Research and Policy

The focus of the Graduate Seminar on Injury Research and Policy for the 3rd term in 2011 is violence prevention. The seminar series is jointly sponsored by the Center for Injury Research and Policy, the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, and the Center for Gun Policy and Research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The seminars are open to all students and faculty as well as to the public. If you need additional information, please contact the Course Administrator, Karen Strother at kjonsber@jhsph.edu (443-287-7706), or the Teaching Assistant, Gregory Tung at gtung@jhsph.edu.

The schedule for the 2011 third term Graduate Seminar on Injury Research and Policy is below.

January 25, 2011

Research to Inform U.S. Gun Policy Post Tucson

Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH
Professor and Co-Director
Center for Gun Policy and Research
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

February 1, 2011

Hospital-Based Interventions to Reduce the Recurrence of Youth Violence

Kimberly Goodman, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept. of Mental Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

February 8, 2011

Sex Work, Violence and HIV risk

Michele Decker, ScD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

February 15, 2011

Intimate Partner Violence, HIV/AIDS and Substance Use Syndemic Among Low-Income Urban Women

Samantha L. Illangasekare, MPH
PhD Candidate
Department of Health, Behavior and Society
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

February 22, 2011

The Washington Post's "The Hidden Life of Guns" Series: Investigative Research and Revelations About the Source of Guns Used in Crime

Jeffrey Leen
David Fallis
Reporters
The Washington Post

The Takeaway - US Guns Used in Mexican Drug Crimes Growing
NPR - Arizona Gun Laws Among Most Lenient In U.S.

March 1, 2011

A Cross National Comparison of Intimate Partner Homicide

Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD
Anna D. Wolfe Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

March 8, 2011

Learning with Youth through the Arts: Understanding and Addressing Community Violence

Michael Yonas, DrPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Medicine
University of Pittsburgh