Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program

Friday Newsletter

February 7, 2025

Announcements

  • Grandmothers Against Gun Violence Foundation has announced its 2025 grant opportunities for emerging researchers in gun violence and its prevention.  Proposals are due on April 7, 2025, and you can read more about this opportunity here.
  • Next week is Love Data Week 2025! This Love Data Week, the Center for Public Health Law research is celebrating how data give us the power to learn, adapt, and create a better future. See the schedule of events here. 
  • Translational Science Day 2025 "Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: Translating Gun Policy Science into Action to Reduce Firearm Violence" will be held entirely online Friday, April 4, 2025 7am -2 pm PST. Register for this event here.
  • Check out the recently published book by  Dr. Tabia Henry Akintobi and Stephanie Miles-Richardson titled "Community-Centered Public Health: Strategies, Tools, and Applications for Advancing Health Equity." 
  • Colombia University Mailman School of Public Health and Colombia SURGE are hosting a webinar and panel discussion on what's next in a rapidly changing research and prevention landscape on March 5th from 9:30-11 am PST. Read more about the event and register here.
  • The Joyce Foundation is hosting a webinar on February 18th at 9am PST titled "Impact of Mass Shootings on Youth." Read more and register here. 
  • We'd love to celebrate FIPRP birthdays! If you'd like, share your birthday month with us, and we will shout out birthdays in the newsletter once a month!

Looking Ahead

 
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FIPRP Weekly

 

February 12, 9:30-10 am PST
Speaker: Dr. Keith Hullenaar
Title: "Empowering Youth Firearm Violence Outreach"

 
Zoom Link
 
 
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FIPRP Friday

 

February 28, 1-2 pm PST
Speaker: Kaitlan Ohler, MPA
Title: "Peace Point: The Community-Driven Plan for Youth Safety"

 
Zoom Link
 

Opportunities

O-BJA-2025-172344: Project Safe Neighborhoods- Formula Grants Program
Bureau of Justice Assistance, open through March 12, 2025

O-BJA-2025-172310: Byrne State Crisis Intervention Training and Technical Assistance Program
Bureau of Justice Assistance, open through March 12, 2025

O-NIJ-2025-172321: Research and Evaluation on Drugs and Crime: Nexus with Firearms and Violence
National Institute of Justice, open through March 31, 2025

O-BJA-2025-172341: Office of Justice Programs Community Based Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative Site-Based

Bureau of Justice Assistance, open through April 8, 2025

O-BJA-2025-172358: Local Law Enforcement Crime Gun Intelligence Center Integration Initiative
Bureau of Justice Assistance, open through April 17, 2025


PAR-24-061: Firearm Injury Prevention Research: Short Courses (R25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
NIH, estimated closing date May 25, 2026

Recent Firearm Injury Papers

Authors

Title

Publication

Jay J

Redlining, Root Causes, and a Firearm Injury Scholarship of Consequence

American Journal of Public Health

Price JH, Payton E

Firearm Deaths Impacting Older Adults

Journal of Community Health

Giannouchos T, Kum HC, Rochford H

Nonfatal Firearm Injury and Subsequent Emergency Department Utilization Among Nonelderly Adults

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Barnard LM, Wright-Kelly E, Brooks-Russell A, Betz ME

Firearm Type and Number of People Killed in Publicly Targeted Fatal Mass Shooting Events

JAMA Network Open

Hans Z, Lee DB, Zimmerman MA, Wiebe DJ

Legacy of Racism and Firearm Violence During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

American Journal of Public Health

Boehme HM, Klein BR, Spencer MD, Jones A, McMains-Nurisio M, Morgan K, Trowbridge J

Social determinants of health, driving time to trauma hospitals, racial composition, and firearm violence in South Carolina

Injury Prevention 

Osborne MC, Reidy DE, Temple JR, DeMello A, Lu Y

Examining the Relation Between Early Violence Exposure and Firearm-Related Experiences in Emerging Adulthood: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

Psychological Reports

Jain V, Miller M, Hemenway D

The impact of the U.S federal minimum legal drinking age law on alcohol involved firearm suicide: a regression discontinuity approach

EClinicalMedicine

Hartley DJ, Davila MA

The Influence of Gun Victimization on Support for Gun Control Legislation 

Psychological Reports

 Kochel TR, West MP, Toro-Alvarez MM

Modeling a needs assessment approach for policymakers to investigate, understand, and reduce gun violence 

Evaluation & Program Planning

Mukherjee S, Gordils J

Factors Associated With Gun Possession Among High-School Students in the U.S. Before and During the Pandemic 

Psychological Reports

Halvorson MA, Kuklinski MR, Gause E, Schleimer JP, Terral HF, Weybright EH, Oesterle S, Rowhani-Rahbar A

Changes in Young Adult Handgun Carrying in the US

JAMA Network Open

Kafka JK, Ellyson AM, Santaularia NJ, Adhia A, Ortega A, Shanahan S, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Bowen D

Disparities in court orders to relinquish firearms in civil domestic violence protection orders

Criminology & Public Policy

Collins C

Engaging in Lethal Means Safety (ELMS): An Evaluation of a Suicide Prevention Means Safety Training Program for Mental Health First Responders

Health & Social Work

Taylor BG, Mitchell KJ, Turner HA, Sheridan-Johnson J, Mumford EA

Prevalence of Gun Carrying and Gun Violence Victimization and Perpetration Among a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Youth and Young Adults

AJPM Focus

Mittal MM, Singh A, Gonuguntla R, Momtaz D, Hosseinzadeh P

Do Children With Accidental Gunshot-related Fractures Experience Greater Risk of Mental Illness and Psychiatric Disorders? A Propensity-matched Study

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Beachy S, Liang CT, Fizur P, Fu Q, Johnson NL

Disentangling the coping process in White rural men who carry guns

Psychological Reports

Peterson T

Gun Owners Views on Gun Control in the United States: A Qualitative Study

Psychological Reports

Baumann ML

Mental Illness, Gun Access and Carrying: A Test of Competing Hypotheses

Psychological Reports

Bolded authors are FIPRP members or affiliates

Resources

FIPRP 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 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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