Firearm Injury & Policy Research Program

Friday Newsletter

July 3, 2025

Announcements

  • Registration is now open for the Turning Knowledge into Action: Virtual Injury & Violence Prevention Summit, happening on July 23rd from 11am-7:30pm PT. Click here to register.
  • ITHS, SOM, and SPH are hosting a 12 week Grant Writing Program for Clinicians and Junior Faculty in Autumn 2025. Read more about the course and eligibility requirements here. Application materials are due July 15th.
  • The Gun Violence Prevention Research Roundtable is inviting folks who are interested to join a GVP Research Media & Advocacy ECHO! This ECHO was customized to equip participants with messaging tools around the importance of firearm injury prevention research. During the six-session bi-weekly course, participants will learn communication strategies, advocacy tools, and storytelling skills to support federal funding for firearm injury prevention research. Register here!

Looking Ahead

 
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FIPRP Weekly

 
July 9, 9:30-10 am PDT
Speaker: Dr. Julie Kafka
Title: Protection order history prior to femicide: A WA data linkage project
 
Zoom Link
 

Opportunities

UW is planning to offer post-doctoral training in Pediatric Injury Research, with positions becoming available for summer/fall, 2025. This training program is funded through a US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) T-32 grant. Applications received by August 1 (updated!), 2025 will be given the highest priority. Read more here.

The department of Pediatrics at Indiana University is looking to fill a postdoctoral fellowship position in gun violence research. More information about the position and how to apply can be found here.

Recent Firearm Injury Papers

Authors

Title

Publication

Schleimer JP, Ross R, Rowhani-Rahbar A

Association of prior criminal charges and convictions with subsequent violent and firearm-related crime: a retrospective cohort study

Injury Epidemiology

Hullenaar KL, Rivara F, Bruns EJ

Support staff distribution in K-12 US schools that experience shootings: A matched analysis

Preventive Medicine

Bray-Aschenbrenner A, Wang J, Bernardin ME

Environmental racism: associations between poverty, pollution, and pediatric gun violence

BMC Pediatrics

Wilson T, Yanger S, Rix K, Chan HK, Petronzio A, Sepulveda N, Bhatti M, Palomares L, Evans G, McKay S, Ugalde I

Association of childhood opportunity index and firearm ownership and storage in two emergency departments in Texas

Injury

Rempson C, Pracht E, Green A, Chandler NM, Snyder CW

Beyond the Index: Family Fragility as a Geographic Risk Factor for Pediatric Firearm Injuries

Journal of  Pediatric Surgery

Densley JA, Pyrooz DC, Peterson JK

Factors Associated With Secure Firearm Storage Among U.S. Gun Owners

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Karnecki K, Wrocławski A, Kaliszan M, Gos T

Fatal gunshots in the Tri-City metropolitan area, Poland between 1998 and 2021

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Langenau E, Kaminsky AM, Roberts MB

Impact of a clinician-directed educational program on communicating with patients regarding gun violence at two community urban healthcare centers

Journal of Osteopathic Medicine

Craig CN, Rand CM, Baldwin CD

Improving Firearm Screening and Safe Storage Counseling in a Primary Care Pediatric Practice

Clinical Pediatrics

Wamakima A, Roberts LE, Wanders S, Morrison CN, Kaufman E, Cook M, Beard JH

Association between police funding and community firearm violence incidence in 61 US cities, 2015-2022

Public Health

Loe M, Ghio C, Ghio M, Constans J, Fleckman J, McGrew P, Duchesne J, Theall K, Tatum D, Taghavi S

Association of Housing Instability With Firearm Homicides in Major US Cities

Journal of Surgical Research

Joseph HL, Liu W, Petersen K, Sheridan-Johnson J, Taylor BG

Subject injury and police use of force in mental health crises

International Journal of Law & Psychiatry

FIPRP authors are bolded

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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