The Harvard Injury Control Research Center (abbreviated HICRC) is a research center at the

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's first ...

dedicated to studying

injury prevention Injury prevention is an effort to prevent or reduce the severity of bodily injuries caused by external mechanisms, such as accidents, before they occur. Injury prevention is a component of safety and public health, and its goal is to improve the ...

. In November 2016, the Center received a grant of over $650,000 from the

National Institute of Justice The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development and evaluation agency of the United States Department of Justice. NIJ, along with the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Juvenil ...

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.

Personnel

*Director:

David Hemenway David Hemenway (born 1945) is a Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has a B.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1974) from Harvard University in economics. He is the director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and ...

*Director of the Means Matter Campaign: Catherine Barber *Director of research: Deborah Azrael

References

External links

*{{Official website, https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health