141st APHA Annual Meeting

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Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH

Professor and Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Center for Gun Policy and Research
624 North Broadway
5th Floor
Baltimore, MD
USA 21205


Biographical Sketch:
Daniel Webster is Professor of Health Policy and Management and directs the PhD program in Health and Public Policy at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he directs the Center for Gun Policy and Research. He has published numerous articles on gun violence and strategies to prevent it. He is the lead author/editor of Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis (JHU Press, 2013).

Papers:
3200.0 Using EMS data to examine firearm-related injury: Implications for surveillance and preventive intervention 3215.1 The role of permit-to-purchase firearm licensing 3372.0 Public attitudes about mental illness and support for gun policies affecting persons with mental illness following newtown 3372.0 Dangerous people or dangerous guns? effects of news media messages about mass shootings on attitudes toward persons with serious mental illness and public support for gun control policies 4319.0 Association between firearm sales regulations and the source of handguns to criminal offenders in the United States