Educational Tools/Resources
- American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST)’s statement on Firearm Injuries.
- American College of Surgeons (ACS) Statement on Firearm Injuries.
- Proceedings from the Medical Summit on Firearm Injury Prevention: A Public Health Approach to Reduce Death and Disability in the US - PubMed (nih.gov)
- AAST's Prevention Committee Topical Update: Impact of Community Violence Exposure, Intimate Partner Violence, Hospital- Based Violence Intervention, Building Community Coalitions and Injury Prevention Program Evaluation - PubMed (nih.gov)
- Recommendations from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma's Firearm Strategy Team (FAST) Workgroup: Chicago Consensus I - PubMed (nih.gov)
- Strategies for Trauma Centers to Address the Root Causes of Violence: Recommendations from the Improving Social Determinants to Attenuate Violence (ISAVE) Workgroup of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma - PubMed (nih.gov)
- ACS: Gun Safety and Your Health Brochure
- Suicide, Guns, and Public Health: Means Matter | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
- Suicide Prevention - Mental Health (va.gov)
- Mass General safe guns and ammunition storage.
- ACS Injury Prevention Resources & Resources From Other Organizations.
- Firearm Safety and Patient Health: A Proactive Guide to Protecting Patients and Their Families
- Second Medical Summit on Firearm Injury Prevention
Reports/Publications
- Surveillance for violent deaths – National violent death reporting system, 27 states, 2015: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30260938/
- Changes in firearm mortality following implementation of state laws regulating firearm access and use: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1921965117
- The science of gun policy. A critical synthesis of research evidence on effects of gun policies in the United States, second edition: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2088-1.htm
- State gun laws, gun ownership, and mass shootings in the US: cross-sectional time series: https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l542
- Gun Policy in America. RAND Corporation report: https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy.html
- Guns and Violence against Women. Everytown research on guns & violence against women.
- Brady United. The facts that make us act. Brady facts that make us act.
- CDC M&M weekly report. Surveillance of violence deaths – NVDRS, 39 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 2018, https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/ss/ss7103a1.htm
Other Resources
- Violence Policy Center: https://vpc.org
- The Trauma Foundation: https://thetraumafoundation.org/
- Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence: https://giffords.org/lawcenter/gun-laws/
- Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research: https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-gun-violence-prevention-and-policy/
- Harvard Injury Control Research Center: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/
- Brady Center to prevent gun violence: https://www.bradyunited.org
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Violence Prevention: https://www.aap.org/en/advocacy/gun-violence-prevention/
- Northwell Center for Gun Violence Prevention: https://www.northwell.edu/center-for-gun-violence-prevention
- The Health Alliance for Violence Intervention (HAVI): https://www.thehavi.org
- Everytown Research & Policy: https://everytownresearch.org/report/gun-violence-and-covid-19-in-2020-a-year-of-colliding-crises/