Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Research

The Center for Gun Policy and Research is engaged in a broad range of activities, including original scholarly research, policy analysis, and agenda-setting public discourse. Our goal is to bring public health perspectives and expertise to the complex policy issues related to gun violence prevention.

A central function of the Center is to provide our key audiences—policy makers, the media, advocacy groups, and the general public—with accurate information about gun injuries and prevention strategies relevant to key gun policy issues. Our faculty are frequently invited to advise federal, state, and local legislators and testify at congressional and state hearings. In addition, the Center produces numerous resources including fact sheets, policy analyses, bibliographies, and slideshows, and publishes research studies in top scientific journals. Center publications, faculty research publications, and information for the media and general public are available on the website, or by contacting the Center directly.

Center Research Topics

 
Gun Trafficking

Domestic Violence & Guns

Keeping Guns from Youth

Legal Issues

Highlighted Research

Women with protective orders report failure to remove firearms from their abusive partners

Shootings are the most common method by which women are killed by an intimate partner in the United States. More

Fatally flawed study yields misleading results

A widely publicized study of the relationship between gun shows and gun violence is being cited in debates about the regulation of gun shows and gun commerce. We believe the study is fatally flawed. More

Risk factors for criminal use of handguns recently purchased under conditions that suggest trafficking

Our findings should help law enforcement's illegal gun units to consider which of the thousands of crime gun traces to follow up with an investigation of possible trafficking. More

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