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Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program

Friday Newsletter

April 19, 2024

Announcements

  • Two of our FIPRP members were recently awarded for their outstanding research: Dr. Julie Kafka was awarded a NVDRS New Investigator Research Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA) and Dr. Fred Rivara was selected for the Excellence in Violence & Injury Prevention Science Award from the Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR). Congratulations to Dr. Kafka and Dr. Rivara!
  • Dr. Elizabeth Weybright was featured on NPR this week! You can read or listen to the story here: Teaching Children Gun Safety to Curb Gun Violence.
  • The Washington State Department of Health is hosting two regional workshops to collaborate on updating the State Suicide Prevention Plan. The Western Washington workshop will be held on April 19 from 11 AM - 4:45 PM PT at the Tukwila Community Center in Tukwila, WA. The Eastern Washington workshop will be held on May 1 from 11 AM - 4:45 PM PT at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington.  There will also be a Town Hall held from 5:30-7 PM on each day of the workshops. To read more about the workshops and/or register for the event(s), please click here. 
  • The University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Penn Injury Science Center are hosting a virtual seminar, titled "Evidence-Driven Approaches to Preventing Firearm Deaths", on Friday, May 3, 2024 from 12-1 PM ET. The seminar will feature a panel of experts, including FIPRP Director Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar. Click here to register for the event. 

The Week Ahead

 
Flyer for April FIPRP Methods Seminar
 

FIPRP Methods Seminar

 

April 19 from 10-11 AM PT
Speaker: Krista Mehari, PhD
Title: Leveraging Participatory Methods in Firearm-related Injury Prevention Research

 
Zoom link
 
 
Flyer for April 24 WIP
 

FIPRP WIP

 

April 24 from 9:30-10 AM PT 
Speakers: Elizabeth Weybright, PhD & Forest Bletz, MA
Title: Handgun Experiences of Transgender Young Adults

 
Zoom link
 
 
Flyer for April FIPRP Friday
 

FIPRP Friday

 

April 26 from 1-2 PM PT
Speaker: Keith Hullenaar, PhD, MS
Title: Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Improve Research Workflow

 
Zoom link
 

Opportunities 

Request for Proposals: Causal Research on Community Safety and the Criminal Justice System
Arnold Ventures, applicants may submit a letter of interest at any time via email to CrimJustRFP@arnoldventures.org

NEW! Research Data Analyst 3
UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP), open through April 26, 2024

F24-34443-001: State Crisis Intervention Program Research Projects
Washington State Department of Commerce, Office of Firearm Safety & Violence Prevention, open through April 28, 2024

O-NIJ-2024-171966: Research and Evaluation on Firearm Violence and Mass Shootings
DOJ NIJ, open through April 29, 2024

O-NIJ-2024-171990: Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Money Laundering, Firearms, and Human Trafficking
DOJ NIJ, open through May 1, 2024

O-BJS-2024-172006: National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP) Supplemental Funding under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
DOJ BJS, open through May 6, 2024

O-BJS-2024-172008: National Criminal History Improvement Program
DOJ BJS, open through May 13, 2024

Request for Proposals: CA FVRC Research Grant Award Program
California Firearm Violence Research Center, University of California, Davis, open through May 15, 2024

PAR-24-061: Nursing Research Education Program in Firearm Injury Prevention Research (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) 
NIH NINR, open through May 25, 2024

O-BJA-2024-172063: Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based
DOJ BJA, open through May 30, 2024

O-NIJ-2024-172060: Community-Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (CVIPI) Research and Evaluation
DOJ NIJ, open through June 18, 2024

RFA-NR-24-001: Firearm Injury Prevention in Community Healthcare Settings (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
NIH NINR, open through July 6, 2024

RFA-MH-25-120: Lethal Means Safety Suicide Prevention Research in Healthcare and Community Settings (R34 Clinical Trial Required)
DHHS NIH, open through January 23, 2025

Recent Firearm Injury Papers

Authors

Title

Publication

Richmond TS, Hargarten SW, Rivara FP

Strengthening the Role of the NIH in the Firearm Violence Epidemic: A Modest Proposal

JAMA Internal Medicine

Wintemute GJ, Crawford A, Robinson SL, Tomsich EA, Reeping PM, Schleimer JP, Pear VA

Firearm Ownership and Support for Political Violence in the United States

JAMA Network Open

Kafka JM, Schleimer JP, Toomet O, Chen K, Ellyson A, Rowhani-Rahbar A

Measuring interpersonal firearm violence: natural language processing methods to address limitations in criminal charge data

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Chennapragada L, Osterberg T, Strouse M, Sullivan SR, Silver C, LaMarca M, Boucher C, Fonseca E, Goodman M

A PRISMA Scoping Review to Explore Interventions to Prevent Firearm-Related Injury and Suicide in Older Adults

Clinical Gerontologist

Weigend Vargas E, Pérez Ricart C, Portugal J, Goldstick JE

Firearms and Extortions in Mexico, 2012 to 2021

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Smith PN, Cordell C, Stevens LT, West K, Morgan ST, Vallas J, Mehari KR

Project GRIP: An Illustration of Participatory Action Research with Communities of People Who Own and Use Firearms

Psychological Reports


Authors in bold are FIPRP members

Resources

FIPRP Membership Interest Form
Please share this with folks who:

  • Express interest in joining FIPRP
  • Would like to engage in FIPRP events 
  • Are interested in collaboration

Dissemination Team Consultation Form 
The Dissemination Team may be able to help with:

  • Creating research or policy briefs (https://fiprp.uw.edu/research-briefs/)
  • Technical support for graphic design platforms (for example, Canva or LucidChart)
  • Creating visual abstracts

Methods Team Consultation Form
The Methods Team may be able to help with:

  • Providing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods consultation services
  • Creating, compiling, and presenting methods resources to FIPRP members
  • Facilitating trainings on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods, research procedures, and research ethics

Reminders

  • Please reach out to Erika Marts (ekmarts@uw.edu) or Sam Banks (sbanks94@uw.edu) if you have any new firearm-related publications and/or conversations with the media, reporters, community partners, or policymakers in an article so it can be listed on the FIPRP website.
  • FIPRP has a SharePoint that we are hoping will help facilitate the sharing of resources. We currently have a methods folder which includes resources and guidance on topics like data visualization, qualitative methods, and survey methods among other resources for FIPRP outreach. If you would like access or would like to contribute resources, please email Sam Banks at sbanks94@uw.edu.
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