October 31, 2023
Assistant Professor Rebeccah Sokol wrote in The Conversation about both the increase in gun deaths among children and teens and the research-backed strategies and tools to reverse this trend. “Reducing young people’s access to unsecured and loaded firearms can prevent firearm-involved deaths across all intents including suicide, homicide, and unintentional shootings.” The editorial also ran in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Sun-Times.
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- Rebeccah SokolAssociate Professor of Social Work, School of Social Work and Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Equity, School of Public Health