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Biographical Sketch: David Hemenway, Ph.D., is an economist and Professor at Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and a James Marsh Visiting Professor at Large at the University of Vermont. He is Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Youth Violence Prevention Center. He was President of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research and in 2007 received the Excellence in Science award from the injury section of the American Public Health Association. He has received fellowships from the Pew, Soros and Robert Wood Johnson foundations.
Dr. Hemenway has written over 150 journal articles and is sole author of five books. Recent books include Private Guns Public Health (U Michigan Press 2006) and While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention (U California Press 2009). Dr. Hemenway has received ten HSPH teaching awards.