Political Violence and Public Health

About the Event: 

Hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the seminar is designed to advance our understanding of political violence and its range of effects on public health. The founding director of the California Firearm Violence Research Center, Garen Wintemute, MD, will discuss trends and variation in support of political violence. The seminar will propose further interventions to prevent political violence and minimize its future impact. An open Q&A session will follow Dr. Wintemute's presentation. A reception with light refreshments will be held afterward, continuing until 6:00 PM. 

Attendees must register before the seminar. The check-in table will be set up at the entrance of the Bloomberg School of Public Health Feinstone Hall located at East Monument Street in Baltimore, MD. 

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Speaker: 

Garen Wintemute, MD 

Founding Director, California Firearm Violence Research Center, University of California 

Dr. Wintemute is the Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine and Baker–Teret Chair in Violence Prevention at the University of California, Davis. He is the founding director of the Violence Prevention Research Program there and of the California Firearm Violence Research Center, the nation’s first publicly funded center for research in this field. He was among the first to study firearm violence as a health problem. His current research focuses on firearm violence risk factors at the individual and social levels and on interventions to prevent violence, with an emphasis on political violence. Trained initially as a biologist at Yale University, Dr. Wintemute attended medical school and residency at UC Davis and studied epidemiology and injury prevention at Johns Hopkins University. He practices and teaches emergency medicine at UC Davis Medical Center, a Level I trauma center.