"If The Government Takes Gun Research Seriously, What Should It Study?" - Quoctrung Bui & Margot Sanger-Katz
It's a measure of the divisiveness of guns in the United States that federal public health officials barely spend any money funding gun violence research. Research by David Stark, MD, an assistant professor of health system design and global health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and medical director of the institute for next generation health care, and Nigam H. Shah of Stanford University found that, given the number of U.S. fatalities linked to firearms, public health research on them is very underpowered. Because of the deaths of students and teachers in Parkland, Florida, last month, there's a chance this will change. Several researchers longed for basic information about how many guns are in circulation and who owns them, while other requested a detailed record of the circumstance around every shooting, including murders, suicides, and accidental deaths - something skin to the data collected on highway crashes.
- David Stark, MD, Assistant Professor, Health System Design and Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Medical Director, Institute for Next Generation Health Care
