Harvard Injury Control Research Center Explained

The Harvard Injury Control Research Center (abbreviated HICRC) is a research center at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health dedicated to studying injury prevention. In November 2016, the Center received a grant of over $650,000 from the National Institute of Justice to study police shootings. This was one of the few grants that the federal government has given to study gun violence in the last two decades.^[1]

Personnel

• Director: David Hemenway^[2]
• Director of the Means Matter Campaign: Catherine Barber^[3]
• Director of research: Deborah Azrael^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gun Violence Researchers Actually Got Some Federal Funding . Manning . Allison . Vice . 3 November 2016.
2. Web site: David Hemenway . Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Harvard University.
3. Web site: Catherine Barber . Harvard Injury Control Research Center . Harvard University.
4. Web site: 3% of Americans own half the country's 265 million guns . Jervis . Rick . USA Today . 22 September 2016.