Other Research

1. NIJ Award2017-IJ-CX-0018: Racial and ethnic differences in non-fatal firearm injuries- The goal of this project is to understand the drivers of non-fatal firearm injury in order to guide efforts that may reduce these injuries. We will do that in four ways. First, we will document the state-specific (spatial) differences and the changes across time (temporal) of non-fatal firearm injury among all, by racial-ethnic groups and intents of injury. Second, we will assess the state-level factors that influence these changes such as state-specific firearm laws and social characteristics (e.g., minority proportion, rates of unemployment, income inequality, suicide, divorce, firearm ownership, alcohol consumption, drug use, and non-firearm homicide). Third, we will determine the individual socio-demographic and clinical factors that drive both spatial and time trends. Fourth, we will determine if individual factors modify the spatiotemporal patterns of non-fatal firearm injury, and whether this explains racial-ethnic and intent differences. We will use a unique compilation of seven large national data sources across 25 years, from 1993 to 2017 and use multi-level models with time-varying covariates to address our central question of importance about racial-ethnic disparities in non-fatal firearm injuries.