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Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012, President Barack Obama directed the CDC and other federal agencies to "conduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it." [15] The CDC responded by funding a research project [16] and conducting their own study in 2015. [17]
PreventConnect is a national project of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault with funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. [6]
CDC funding of gun violence research declined by 96 percent while academic publications addressing gun violence declined 64 percent between 1998 and 2012. [15] It also resulted in the ending of Rosenberg's position; [16] he left the CDC in 1999 and joined the Task Force for Global Health, of which he became president and CEO. He retired and ...
Programs like the Violence Interruption Project can be critical partners with law enforcement in moving beyond responding to violence and instead working to prevent it. Carol Hunter is the ...
U.S. President Joe Biden was set to announce a suite of grants and initiatives to help combat domestic abuse and support survivors of gender-based violence on Thursday, marking the 30th ...
A 1985 National Research Council report entitled Injury in America [2] recommended that United States Congress establish a new program at the CDC to address the problem of injury. Initially the program was supported with funds from the United States Department of Transportation. In 1990 Congress passed the Injury Control Act which authorized ...
In 2002, US Congress appropriated funding for the system for the first time. [2] and the system was established that year. [4] The NVDRS began collecting data in 2003 from six states, a number that increased to 17 by 2006 [2] and 32 by 2016. [5] In November 2008, the system and its accompanying data became freely accessible online. [6]
In 1974, the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society formed the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, [2] a group of thirty affiliated religious, labor, and nonprofit organizations, with the goal of addressing "the high rates of gun-related crime and death in American society" by requiring licensing of gun owners, registering firearms, and banning private ownership of handguns.