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What We Don't Know Can Kill Us: Confronting Gun Violence With Data
What We Don't Know Can Kill Us: Confronting Gun Violence With Data
Wednesday, November 19, 2014: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
For decades, progress in gun violence reduction has been stymied by limited access to data that are essential for measuring and characterizing gun crime, developing evidence-based interventions to reduce it, and evaluating their effectiveness. But today across the country, researchers, cities, and private companies are finding ways to break through the gridlock by creating new tools for understanding and reducing gun violence
Session Objectives: -Define Issues as it relates to violence in all areas;
-Explain the lack of progress in gun violence reduction has been stymied by limited access to data that are essential for measuring and characterizing gun crime;
-Describe evidence-based interventions to reduce it, and evaluating their effectiveness.
-Identify the methods in which researchers, cities, and private companies are finding ways to break through the gridlock by creating new tools for understanding and reducing gun violence
Organizer:
Moderator:
Selena Smith, MPA
Discussant:
12:30pm
12:50pm
1:10pm
1:30pm
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Organized by: Black Caucus of Health Workers
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, Caucus on Homelessness
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