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August 15, 2012 | New Public Health Post
In the wake of yet one more high-profile shooting this week, at Texas A&M University, the Associated Press profiled the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, which is calling for a public health approach to red ...
August 7, 2012
Prevention First's Karen Gillespie credits RWJF with helping to support a poster exhibit program designed to highlight healthy relationships.
July 25, 2012 | Story
RWJF scholar examines how victims’ lives are disfigured, physically and ‘existentially,’ by the lingering effects of gunshot injuries.
July 20, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Several mental health organizations and government agencies have announced online or telephone resources to help citizens and professionals cope with worry, fear, anxiety and stress in the aftermath of the Colorado shooting at a movie theater early ...
April 24, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Stricter Seat Belt Laws Push Teens to Buckle Up Teen drivers and passengers are more likely to use seat belts in states with "click it or ticket" laws, according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health. These laws, also known as prim ...
March 13, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Hack-a-Thon for "Unmentionable" Issues in Adolescent Health
January 24, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The Public Health Law Research Program as well as the American Society of Law Medicine and Ethics, the Network for Public Health Law and the Public Health Law Association and will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, January 26 at one p.m., looking at ...
September 29, 2011 | New Public Health Post
NPH: Tell us about the model for CeaseFire. Gary Slutkin: CeaseFire is a disease control approach to reducing shootings and killings. We have reevaluated what is going on in the field of violence, scientifically, and used sciences of behavior and of ...
April 1, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Over the last half century, the worldwide health community has made significant gains in decreasing the impact of communicable diseases. But those gains are being eroded in one demographic group by suicide, violence and accidents. Young men worldwid ...
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Tobacco control endgame strategies threaten to create large black markets with potential attendant harms.