In an effort to address community violence throughout the state and nationwide, University of Michigan researchers are partnering with community members and local organizations to implement and evaluate programs that aim to curb violence by cleaning up neighborhoods.
Zeoli, associate professor of Health Management and Policy at the School of Public Health, received the President’s Award for Public Impact. She is the nation’s leading expert on policy interventions for firearm use in intimate partner violence.
University of Michigan School of Public Health and Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention researchers recently secured a $998,907 grant from the National Institute of Justice to evaluate a community-led, school-based secure firearm storage campaign in high schools across Michigan.
Michigan Public Health researcher Marc Zimmerman was elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Induction into the NAM is the highest honor for health and medicine researchers in the United States.
Governor Gretchen Whitmer appointed Michigan Public Health professor April Zeoli to the state’s Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. Zeoli studies the impact of firearm laws on interpersonal firearm violence.
A digital toolkit designed to support adherence to Michigan’s newly enacted safe firearm storage law is now available through the University of Michigan.