Philip Alpers

Philip Alpers is adjunct associate professor and founding director of GunPolicy.org, a global nonpartisan project at the University of Sydney School of Public Health which compares armed violence, firearm legislation and injury prevention across 250 jurisdictions worldwide. A former senior fellow at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Alpers is a widely published policy analyst in the effects of armed violence and firearm regulation on public health and human rights. Accredited to the United Nations small arms Programme of Action since 2001, he participates in global firearm-related processes as a member of government delegations. Currently he designs and installs arms and ammunition control systems for state agencies across Africa and the Pacific.