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Preventing Gun Suicide Without Partisan Politics
By: Katie Ellison, Project Director, Safer Homes Collaborative, Missouri Institute of Mental Health – University of Missouri-St. Louis (The Safer Homes Collaborative is a joint initiative between the gun-owning and suicide prevention communities to promote lethal...
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Gun Violence, Public Health, and Equity: How Missouri Foundation for Health Drives Change on a Complex Issue
By: Jessi LaRose, MPH (Senior Strategist-Initiatives, Missouri Foundation for Health) This blog is part of a special series by the Harris Institute’s Gun Violence and Human Rights Initiative and the Institute for Public Health’s Gun Violence...
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Violence in St. Louis: Equity, Health, & Human Rights
By: Jessica Meyers, MPA (Coordinator, St. Louis Area Violence Prevention Commission) This blog is part of a special series by the Harris Institute’s Gun Violence and Human Rights Initiative and the Institute for Public Health’s Gun Violence Initiative in recognition...
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Security vs. Liberty? COVID-19 and Challenges to National Security Law | Live Webinar
By Yuan Fang, JSD Candidate at Washington University School of Law The Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute’s third webinar in its series on COVID-19 and International law looked at Security vs. Liberty? COVID-19 and Challenges to National Security Law, and was...
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Structural Racism and Gun Violence
By: Mark H. Hoofnagle, MD, PhD, Trauma and Acute Care Surgeon Washington University School of Medicine Barnes-Jewish Hospital This blog is part of a special series by the Harris Institute’s Gun Violence and Human Rights Initiative and the Institute for...
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Gun Violence Endangers Human Rights in the US and Abroad
By: Eugenio Weigend (Associate Director for Gun Violence Prevention, Center for American Progress) and Silvia Villarreal (Master of Public Policy, Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey) This blog is part of a special series by the Harris...
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Structural Racism is Killing US
By: Hedwig Lee (Professor and Director, Department of Sociology; Associate Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, Washington University in St. Louis); Savannah Larimore (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Sociology, Washington...
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Guns: Vectors of State Violence and Racial Terror
By: Odis Johnson Jr., Professor of Sociology and Education; Director of the Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methodologies; Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, Washington University in St....
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Combining Public Health and Rights-Based Approaches to Address Violence
By: Poli Rijos, Center Manager, Center for Community Health Partnership & Research; Gun Violence Initiative, Institute for Public Health This blog is part of a special series by the Harris Institute's Gun Violence and Human Rights Initiative and the...
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No Peace, No Justice!
By: The Rev. Marc D. Smith, Ph.D., Bishop’s Deputy for Gun Violence Prevention, Episcopal Diocese of Missouri; Priest Associate, Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, University City This blog is part of a special series by the Harris Institute's Gun Violence and...
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