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In this episode, The Burn Bag speaks with Dr. Gary Slutkin, a physician, epidemiologist, former World Health Organization official, and founder of Cure Violence Global, about a provocative idea: what if violence is not simply a problem of crime, morality, or politics, but a contagious epidemic?Drawing on his decades of work fighting tuberculosis, cholera, AIDS, and community violence, Dr. Slutkin explains how violence spreads through exposure, trauma, social networks, and norms — and how it can be interrupted using tools adapted from public health. We discuss why punishment-first approaches often fall short, how violence interrupters work on the ground, and what this model can teach us about community violence, political extremism, authoritarianism, and war.At a time when violence is shaping communities, politics, and conflicts around the world, Dr. Slutkin offers a different diagnosis — and a more hopeful path toward prevention.You can find Dr. Slutkin's book, The End of Violence, here.

About this episode: What would change if we thought of violence as an infectious disease? In this episode: a trailblazer in the movement for community-based solutions to violence, Dr. Gary Slutkin, explains how treating violence like an epidemic can point the way to solutions. Guest: Dr. Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist who founded the organization Cure Violence Global. He is also the author of the book "The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic." Host: Dr. Josh Sharfstein is distinguished professor of the practice in Health Policy and Management, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. Show links and related content: Estimating the Effects of Safe Streets Baltimore on Gun Violence—Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions Interrupting Violence: How the CeaseFire Program Prevents Imminent Gun Violence through Conflict Mediation—Journal of Urban Health The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic—Penguin Random House (book) Transcript information: Looking for episode transcripts? Open our podcast on the Apple Podcasts app (desktop or mobile) or the Spotify mobile app to access an auto-generated transcript of any episode. Closed captioning is also available for every episode on our YouTube channel. Contact us: Have a question about something you heard? Looking for a transcript? Want to suggest a topic or guest? Contact us via email or visit our website. Follow us: @‌PublicHealthPod on Bluesky @‌PublicHealthPod on Instagram @‌JohnsHopkinsSPH on Facebook @‌PublicHealthOnCall on YouTube Here's our RSS feed Note: These podcasts are a conversation between the participants, and do not represent the position of Johns Hopkins University.

“Violence has been misdiagnosed. And there's a misdiagnosis that has caused us to not be able to control it as we could.” — Dr. Gary Slutkin Human violence appears ubiquitous. In Iran. In Gaza. In Ukraine. In Sudan. In American cities and homes. So widespread, indeed, that it seems naturally hardwired into us. Our species-being, so to speak. But, for Dr. Gary Slutkin, there is nothing inevitable about human violence. Slutkin — an epidemiologist who spent years fighting cholera, tuberculosis, and AIDS in Africa before focusing his medical mind on violence — argues that violence is neither a character flaw nor a moral failing. Rather than being baked into our natures, Slutkin sees violence as a contagious disease. It meets the clinical definition of a plague, he says. The more violent our homes, communities, media, politics, the more virally it spreads. Slutkin's new book, The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic, makes the case that violence has been misdiagnosed for centuries. We analyse it as a crime problem, a character problem, an inter-state problem. So we punish, incarcerate and bomb. But none of these approaches confront the contagion. This can only be done, Slutkin argues, with what he calls “violence interrupters” — people from within the infected community who find the most at-risk individuals and cool things down before they escalate. Communities that have applied this approach have seen reductions in violence of 40 to 70 percent, Slutkin boasts, with Cherry Hill, one of Chicago's most dangerous neighbourhoods, experiencing 450 days without a shooting. There will be a time, he promises, when the plague of human violence will be mostly overcome. I hope Dr. Slutkin is correct. But suspect that his brave new violence-free world, like Huxley's, might be simultaneously utopian and dystopian. Five Takeaways •       Violence Meets the Clinical Definition of a Contagious Disease: Slutkin is not speaking metaphorically. Violence meets the definition of a disease: characteristic signs and symptoms causing morbidity and mortality. It meets the definition of contagious: it causes more of itself. One violent event leads to another — in a home, in a community, in a region, in a war. The more you are exposed to it, the more likely you are to do it. This is the same mechanism as measles, as cholera, as COVID. Susceptibility varies — for violence, it has to do with how much you feel humiliated, how much social pain you carry, how much grievance a leader has taught you to feel. But the operating system is the same. •       Violence Has Been Misdiagnosed: For centuries, we have treated violence as a moral failing: a matter of bad people making bad choices. The response has been punishment, incarceration, war. None of these interrupt the contagion. In fact, incarceration concentrates the infection. The misdiagnosis has cost millions of lives. The correct diagnosis — epidemic disease spreading through exposure — changes everything. You don't blame a cholera patient for drinking contaminated water. You don't punish a COVID patient for breathing. You interrupt the spread. You treat the susceptibility. You cool it down. •       Violence Interrupters: The Epidemic Control Playbook: Cure Violence Global trains and deploys violence interrupters: people from the same community, who speak the same language, who have often been involved in violence themselves. Their job is to find the most at-risk individuals — the ones most likely to shoot or be shot next — and intervene before the next event. The approach works. Communities that have applied it have seen reductions of 40 to 70 percent. Over a dozen American cities are at fifty- or sixty-year historic lows. Cherry Hill in Chicago went 450 days without a shooting. Baltimore, New York, and other cities have had similar results. •       Authoritarian Violence Disorder: Chapter eight of The End of Violence is called “Infections of the State.” Slutkin's argument: authoritarian leadership is itself a form of epidemic violence. It spreads violence outward into its own population — through ICE raids, through threats, through the approval and scripting of violence by others. It also spreads it abroad, through war. Violence doesn't know borders. The mechanism is the same: exposure increases transmission; grievance and humiliation increase susceptibility. Trump's Iran war is not just a war. It is authoritarianism causing war. And the spread doesn't stop at the border. •       Uganda Dropped HIV 85 Percent with Behavior Change Alone: In 1987, Slutkin arrived in Uganda, then the most infected country in the world, where a third of the population had what was then a 100 percent lethal disease. Using the epidemic control playbook — no medicines, just behaviour change interventions — they dropped the rate 85 percent. The same approach drove down Ebola, drove down TB long before medication existed. Slutkin's point: we do not need pharmacological intervention to eliminate violence. We need the right people doing the right interventions with the right understanding of how contagion works. We have done it. We can do it again. About the Guest Dr. Gary Slutkin is an epidemiologist and the founder and CEO of Cure Violence Global. He is the author of The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic (Health Communications, Inc., 2026). He is a Professor of Epidemiology and Global Health at the University of Illinois Chicago and a former WHO epidemiologist. References: •       The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic by Gary Slutkin (2026). •       Cure Violence Global — Slutkin's organisation. cvg.org. •       Episode 2887: Steven J. Ross on The Secret War Against Hate — the historical companion on American violence and authoritarian disorder. About Keen On America Nobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States — hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,900 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting. WebsiteSubstackYouTubeApple PodcastsSpotify 

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With so much reported violence on the news, in this week's podcast the NextGen Advisors discuss a public health perspective on this issue. Listen to them explore the implications of Dr. Gary Slutkin's theory that violence is actually a contagious disease, just like COVID-19. Listen here to learn more about this challenging and fascinating topic.

Judge Diaz is still in her first term as an elected district court judge, but she is already making her mark on creating new systems to address domestic violence. If you enjoyed the episode with Gary Slutkin, you will enjoy hearing about this innovative approach to domestic violence. Transcript: [music] Justin Hill: Hello and Bienvenidos, San Antonio. Welcome to the Alamo Hour, discussing the people, places, and passion that make our city. My name is Justin Hill, a local attorney, a proud San Antonian, and keeper of chickens and bees. On the Alamo Hour, you'll get to hear from the people that make San Antonio great and unique, and the best-kept secret in Texas. We're glad that you're here. [applause] All right. Welcome to the Alamo Hour, today's guest is Judge Monique Diaz, the 150th Judicial District elected judge here in Bexar County, thanks judge for being here. Monique Diaz: Hi Justin. Thank you for having me, that was quite the introduction. Justin: Well, we put a lot of work into it. Judge Diaz and I go way back long before either of us were really more than just trying to find our way in the legal, and showing up at political fundraisers for one reason or another, and the lowest of the low people on the totem pole at that point. We met a long time ago and we've stayed in touch and now you're a judge, and I kind of know how to find the courthouse now so we've grown up a little bit. Monique: We sure have. It's been quite a while and there's no need to really find the courthouse anymore because everything is on Zoom so- Justin: This is true. Monique: -you can find it at the comfort of your home, Justin. Justin: Unfortunately, some of the smaller counties though don't really like the Zoom and there are some places that are requiring people to show up. Monique: I have heard that that's the case and it's my understanding that under the Supreme Court has issued a series of orders that have helped guide our decisions, in whether we can have in-person hearings or not. It's my understanding that some counties can do that, if they have a plan that's been pre-approved and if their local county officials decide to proceed with that. Here in Bexar County, we're not quite ready for that yet. Justin: Well, there was a federal court case in Sherman, Texas that got going and last I heard, they had traced it out to 40 people that had gotten sick from just that trial. They canceled it midway and then just, it went gangbusters. Monique: I saw that Justin, and that's one of the reasons why we're being really careful here in Bexar County. We do have a plan that was approved by the Supreme Court already however, our local administrative judge and our local officials are not ready to proceed yet. They're really relying primarily on the Metro Health recommendations on when it's safe for us to all proceed. Now, we have plexiglass up in our courtrooms and we're ready to go otherwise, but I think they're looking at things like-- They have some a matrix where they look at the positivity rate, the death rate, and the amount of hospital beds, so that's part of what we're looking to. I don't see us being ready by the tentative April-1st deadline that you may have heard about. Justin: It's good that we have elected officials paying attention to science in their decision-making. We're going to get to the courthouse here in a second, I want to ask you some questions about that, but just some of the-- We go through general getting to know you, this is San Antonio podcast, San Antonio stuff. Judge, what are you doing to decompress during all this, because honestly it, at first I think we were all like, “Oh, let's make a sourdough bread,” and now we're watching an insurrection? It's taken on a life of its own, I wish I had a better way to decompress, but instead I've just put on a few pounds but I'll lose them. What have you been doing to stay sane? Monique: Well, I also put on...

What if Violence were like a contagious disease? Well, according to our guest on this episode: It absolutely is. Dr. Gary Slutkin is the Founder and CEO of Cure Violence Global, which seeks to reduce violence globally using disease control and behavior change methods. His work has resulted in 40-70% reductions in violence in cities around the globe. Listen in to hear about his three-pronged approach to how we can treat - and cure - violence just like we would with a contagious disease.   Episode Show Notes: www.traumacamp.com/26   Biggest Takeaways You Don’t Want to Miss: "The greatest predictor of violence is exposure to a preceding event of violence." - Dr. Gary Slutkin While hate violence and terrorism are important forms of violence to track and treat, most violence currently occurs in homes towards children and communities between members. Learn about the 3-part approach that treats Violence, in a way similar to treating diseases like Covid-19, Cholera, AIDS, SARS, etc.

We face a time of misinformation and ongoing fear of the COVID-19 Virus which has already taken the lives of 200,000 in the US. Concurrent with that is the fear, provocation and the reality of violence as economic hardship, racial oppression and political division fuel dissent. We are essentially fighting two epidemics. In this show, Dr. Gary Slutkin, epidemiologist recognized for reversing contagious diseases like TB, Cholera and AIDS across the globe and Founder and CEO of Cure Violence, ranked 1st among organizations devoted to reducing violence, addresses the epidemics we are facing. Dr. Slutkin will weigh in on the Corona Virus in terms of his perspective on susceptibility, exposure, incubation, spread, testing, and prevention. Just how safe can we be? He will be asked if we can reduce current violence in this country. Is there a relationship between COVID-19 and Violence? Can the Cure Violence model be applied in the face of systemic racism and political dissent?

We face a time of misinformation and ongoing fear of the COVID-19 Virus which has already taken the lives of 200,000 in the US. Concurrent with that is the fear, provocation and the reality of violence as economic hardship, racial oppression and political division fuel dissent. We are essentially fighting two epidemics. In this show, Dr. Gary Slutkin, epidemiologist recognized for reversing contagious diseases like TB, Cholera and AIDS across the globe and Founder and CEO of Cure Violence, ranked 1st among organizations devoted to reducing violence, addresses the epidemics we are facing. Dr. Slutkin will weigh in on the Corona Virus in terms of his perspective on susceptibility, exposure, incubation, spread, testing, and prevention. Just how safe can we be? He will be asked if we can reduce current violence in this country. Is there a relationship between COVID-19 and Violence? Can the Cure Violence model be applied in the face of systemic racism and political dissent?

Dr. Gary Slutkin, physician, epidemiologist, infectious disease control specialist, formerly the Chief of Intervention Development at the World Health Organization and currently the Founder and CEO of Cure Violence Global, joins Anna to talk about the similarities between violence and an infectious disease, what can be done in Chicago now that two epidemics are overlapping, […]

Dr. Gary Slutkin has provided counsel and advice to elected leaders and health leaders across the United States regarding COVID-19. He has advised Mayor Ron Nirenberg and other Texas mayors. He has proven that epidemiological methods for disease reduction work and they work on things like violence. This was a fascinating discussion with a very interesting guest. Transcript: [music] Justin Hill: Hello, in Bienvenidos San Antonio. Welcome to the Alamo Hour discussing the people, places, and passion that make our city. My name is Justin Hill, a local attorney, a proud San Antonian, and keeper of chickens and bees. On the Alamo Hour, you'll get to hear from the people that make San Antonio great and unique and the best-kept secret in Texas. We're glad that you're here. All right. Welcome to today's episode of the Alamo Hour. My guest today is Dr. Slutkin. Dr. Slutkin is a medical doctor and epidemiologist. I'm stealing from your TED Talk bio a little bit. You're an innovator in violence reduction which we're going to talk about. Currently, founder and executive director of Cure Violence. Also, consigliere of sorts to some Metro health and mayors and city officials who are seeking your guidance on COVID. Dr. Slutkin previously served as a medical director for the San Francisco Health Department. He's worked for the World Health Organization. He's worked on epidemics all over Africa which we will discuss. Importantly, he is a well sought after epidemiologist on using data and science to cure issues and specifically, issues that people probably didn't think could be cured that way. Dr. Slutkin, thank you for being here. Dr. Slutkin: I'm happy to be with you, Justin. Justin: You're in Chicago, right? Dr. Slutkin: Yes. Justin: All right. You are my first non-San Antonio local or someone who's lived here for some amount of time but our show tries to have a real connection with San Antonio and Dr. Lesch, a previous guest and Mayor Nirenberg, also previously a guest have discussed COVID with you. I know you've provided some guidance and counsel. Talk to me about what you're doing right now in your role as providing some guidance to cities and leaders including our very own Mayor Ron Nirenberg. Dr. Slutkin: Well, I'm aware that the US has not really seen anything like this before, that's to say an epidemic of this nature that's so fast, so contagious, so lethal and many other parts of the world have. I had the opportunity to be helpful with World Health and some of the others. Although I myself have largely been working on reducing violence in this country and in other places recently, I had to quickly switch into a role of helping, supporting, guiding and training where there were needs, which is basically wherever you look and how to manage this because it's not clear. Besides the fact that it's new, a lot of behaviors need to be changed. People don't like to change behaviors, people don't want to change behaviors and there's so much misinformation as well. I've been talking with mayors and governors and the Mayor's Associations and the Governors Associations and trying to help understand what needs to be understood here. Which is that you can't tell who's infectious and who isn't, which is a really counter-intuitive thing that someone you know or someone who looks well, could be carrying it. That it's really that serious. That you can get it even just by talking and screaming or talking loud or it doesn't require coughing and that the results are really quite bad. For policymakers, they need to really make this so serious, and whenever we don't, we see the consequences and that has to do with the fact that the virus jumps when given a chance. Opening up, it means opening up for the virus and that's what everybody saw but not everybody knew it. Then also what the people themselves have to do. I've been guiding and training in this arena since late February, early March....

El Paso mass shooting (suspect Patrick Crusius admits targeting Mexicans). And remarkable experience at Dallas airport. From Gillam, Manitoba, from where he has been reporting for Global News, we're joined by GN reporter Joe Scarpelli. Gun violence and societal violence is a public health issue. So declares Dr. Gary Slutkin, epidemiologist, former hea of the World Health Organization's Intervention Development Unit and Professor of Epidemiology and Interventional Health at the University of Illinois/Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Slutkin is the founder of the international NGO Cure Violence launched in one of the most violent sections of Chicago and saw shootings reduced 67% in its first year.  The Cure Violence program has been adopted internationally (including in Canada - Halifax and Alberta). The federal Liberals have named their candidate to oppose now independent MP and former Liberal attorney general and Minister of Justice Jody Wilson-Raybould in the riding of Vancouver-Granville.  The Liberals candidate will be Taleeb Noormohamed, a previous Liberal candidate in a different Vancouver riding (he lost). Noormohamed also worked in the Privy Council Office during the terms of Jean Chretien and Paul Martin as Prime Ministers.  So what is likely to happen in Vancouver-Granville on October 21? Manitobans will hear in days when they will vote for their next provincial government. A precursor to October 21 federally? Conservative Premier Brian Pallister one of the six conservative premiers challenging Trudeau on Bills C-48 & C-69. - Guests: Jackson Proskow. Washington bureau chief, Global News. Joe Scarpelli. Global News Reporter. Dr. Gary Slutkin. Founder: Cure Violence. Named One of 16 Global Heroes by Together for Girls Safe Magazine.  Mike Smyth. Vancouver Province columnist an CKNW host. Richard Cloutier. Co-host of News on 680 CJOB and senior reporter Global News (from Winnipeg). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Original broadcast date: February 6, 2016. Sinful behavior is human, and nearly impossible to avoid. In this hour, TED speakers talk about the guilty pleasure of behaving badly and the challenge of confronting sin — and avoiding it. Guests include psychologist Christopher Ryan, former Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornett, activist Dave Meslin, epidemiologist Gary Slutkin, entrepreneur Nick Hanauer, book editor Parul Seghal, and record-holding Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings.

The Roy Green Show   The horrific mass shooting at a Florida high school is only one of a multitude of examples of gun violence in recent history.   Should gun violence – and violence in general – be treated as a public health issue? One international program is seeing great success by treating violence this way.    Guest:  Dr. Gary Slutkin, professor of epidemiology and international health & infectious disease specialist at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, CEO and founder of CureViolence.org - School shootings have claimed lives in both the U.S. and Canada. How can we understand why these horrible incidents happen and what makes the shooters commit these acts?   Guest: Dr. Frank Farley, L.H. Carnell Professor of Psychological Studies in Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, former president of the American Psychological Association - On several occasions involving race, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a public remark saying that "Canadians must do better” – or some variation of this phrase. Most recently, he said this after a reportedly all-white jury reached a verdict of not guiltyf or farmer Gerald Stanley in the shooting death of Colten Boushie.   "Canadians must do better." What does he mean by this? Is the Prime Minister accusing white Canadians of being racist?   Guest: Karlene Nation, senior media & social media specialist with OneNationPR Inc., former CTV diversity reporter in Toronto, decades of experience in Canadian media - Canadians will now have to wait until August - possibly even September - to legally purchase recreational marijuana. Senator Denise Batters is concerned that the legislation isn't ready and has questioned the government's argument that regulating marijuana will make it more difficult for young people to get ahold of it. Guest: Senator Denise Batters, Saskatchewan - After a week of surprising developments in the race for Leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives, Roy has a follow-up conversation with candidate Doug Ford.     Guest: Doug Ford, leadership candidate for the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario - Should drunk drivers who kill face more severe penalties than they do right now? A national e-petition is calling for the minimum sentencing to be increased.   Guest: Markita Kaulius, founder of Families for Justice, her 22-year-old-daughter was killed by a drunk driver who received the usual drunk drivers who kill 'slap on the wrist' sentence See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The horrific mass shooting at a Florida high school is only one of a multitude of examples of gun violence in recent history. Should gun violence – and violence in general – be treated as a public health issue? One international program is seeing great success by treating violence this way.  Guest:  Dr. Gary Slutkin, professor of epidemiology and international health & infectious disease specialist at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, CEO and founder of CureViolence.org (Photo: Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is violence a problem for criminal justice enforcement to handle, or is it a health problem to be addressed by clinicians and other health care professionals? This month on Ethics Talk, we feature a special interview with Dr. Gary Slutkin, the author of an article in the January issue about how the health sector can help reduce violence by treating it as a contagion, about what it means to think about violence as an epidemic, and how this frame might transform the way our society responds to violence.

In this show, Dr. Gary Slutkin world known epidemiologist, senior advisor to the World Health Organization (WHO) and founder of Cure Violence, the organization ranked 1st among organizations devoted to reducing violence, invites us to recognize Violence as a Contagious Disease. Dr. Slutkin shares his background of reversing contagious diseases like TB and Cholera in Somalia and the AIDS epidemic in over 25 countries in central and East Africa and Uganda. Drawing upon this knowledge, he describes that the study of violence reveals the same exposure, susceptibility, mutation and transmission patterns, as a contagious disease. He then describes the Cure Violence Method, a program working in over 60 communities in 25 cities in the U.S. and on five continents with dramatic results. As he describes, we may have different manifestations of violence from gun shootings to domestic violence; but all are part of the Violence Disease Syndrome, which we are showing can be cured.

The Roy Green Show Podcast   Following the mass shooting in Las Vegas last weekend, the topic of gun ownership is once again being widely debated. What is the fundamental reason behind all the shootings and deaths in the United States? An epidemiologist at the University of Illinois argues the shootings are a 'public health issue'. He warned the Governor of Illinois that a surge in shootings in Chicago would take place after funding was cut for the CeaseFire program (now called Cure Violence). He was right. Guest: Dr. Gary Slutkin, epidemiologist at the University of Illinois and founder of Cure Violence - Tracey Wilson argues that legal gun owners need to come out of the closet in order to alter public opinion of who owns firearms and to reduce the stigma around the people who do.   Guest: Tracey Wilson, Orleans chairwoman of the Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights - Almost immediately, ISIS claimed responsibility for last weekend's mass shooting in Las Vegas. Graeme Wood is an ISIS expert, author and Atlantic magazine contributor who wrote a piece for Atlantic titled, "Why did the Islamic State claim the Las Vegas shooting?" Guest: Graeme Wood, has interviewed IS members, author of “The Way of Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State” - Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he has listened to Canadians about his tax fairness plan and is prepared to act on what he has heard.  However, Richard Kurland says he has a simple plan that will lead to income tax fairness. Guest: Richard Kurland, national immigration lawyer in Vancouver - Calgary Mayoral candidate Bill Smith has widened his lead over incumbent Naheed Nenshi since last week's Mainstreet polling. Is it over for Nenshi? Guest: Quito Maggi, president of Mainstreet Research - Roy is joined by two of the Beauties and Brian Jean, leadership candidate for the United Conservative Party of Alberta, to discuss the cancellation of the Energy East pipeline. Guests: Catherine Swift Linda Leatherdale Brian Jean, candidate for leadership of the United Conservative Party of Alberta See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Following the mass shooting in Las Vegas last weekend, the topic of gun ownership is once again being widely debated. What is the fundamental reason behind all the shootings and deaths in the United States? An epidemiologist at the University of Illinois argues the shootings are a 'public health issue'. He warned the Governor of Illinois that a surge in shootings in Chicago would take place after funding was cut for the CeaseFire program (now called Cure Violence). He was right. Guest: Dr. Gary Slutkin, epidemiologist at the University of Illinois and founder of Cure Violence (Photo: Charles Krupa/AP Photo, File) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Violence is usually seen as some sort of moral failing. Gary Slutkin says we should instead treat it like a disease. As anyone who’s left a Hershey’s bar too long in their pocket can tell you… chocolate melts pretty easily. A scientist has uncovered the gene that could change that. The shape and form of the book hasn’t changed all that much since the Middle Ages. But it has definitely changed us.

What if the spread of violence was treated like the spread of a disease? University of Illinois at Chicago’s Gary Slutkin tells us why we need to take a public health approach to preventing violence in America.

Vad händer om man betraktar en dödsskjutning som ett utbrott av en epidemi och våldet som smittsamt? Det finns många likheter mellan hur sjukdomar och våld sprids, anser epidemiologen Gary Slutkin som utvecklat ett program för våldsprevention i USA. Om du umgås med någon som är våldsam är sannolikheten för att du också är det kraftigt förhöjd visar forskning från Ohio state university. Finns det något att vinna på att klassa våld som en sjukdom?

Roy speaks about carbon taxation and how different provinces (including Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta) have different approaches to electricity pricing. He also relays the experience of an Ontario friend about how she was threatened with an electricity cut off on Christmas Eve. - Roy asks callers to weigh in on whether or not they support carbon taxation. - In 2016, 4378 people were shot in Chicago and 3665 were wounded. 713 were shot and killed on the spot. There were 795 homicides in total. In the first four days of this month, 53 people have been shot - 46 of those were wounded and 7 of those were killed. Is it just Chicago, or is Chicago just running ahead of an alarming curve? Guest: Dr. Gary Slutkin, epidemiologist and infectious disease control specialist, and founder/executive director of Cure Violence, which addresses gun violence as a public health issue - Megyn Kelly is jumping from Fox News to NBC, refusing a $20 million yearly contract offer with Fox. Why? Does the money that media superstars earn make sense?   Guest: Paul Levinson, Professor of Communications and Media Studies at Fordham University in NYC, pop culture specialist and international best-selling author See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In 2016, 4378 people were shot in Chicago and 3665 were wounded. 713 were shot and killed on the spot. There were 795 homicides in total. In the first four days of this month, 53 people have been shot - 46 of those were wounded and 7 of those were killed. Is it just Chicago, or is Chicago just running ahead of an alarming curve? Guest: Dr. Gary Slutkin, epidemiologist and infectious disease control specialist, and founder/executive director of Cure Violence, which addresses gun violence as a public health issue See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this session, Shannon N. Green interviews Dr. Gary Slutkin, Founder and CEO of Cure Violence. Dr. Slutkin discusses Cure Violence’s unique public health approach to violence reduction and how such an approach could be applied to more effectively prevent the transmission of extremist ideologies. His experience as an epidemiologist, academic, and practitioner provides an alternate view of the nature of violent extremism and suggests proven health-based strategies to stop its spread.

Lisa Hamilton, Vice President of External Affairs at The Annie E. Casey Foundation, interviews Dr. Gary Slutkin, on the subject of Reducing Gun Violence. Dr Gary Slutkin is the founder of Cure Violence, a professor of epidemiology and international health at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a senior advisor to the World Health Organization. To learn more about this CaseyCast episode, visit https://www.aecf.org/blog/meet-the-disease-control-expert-who-is-curing-an-epidemic-of-gun-violence/.

Is urban violence a health crisis? Chicago epidemiologist and founder of Cure Violence, Gary Slutkin, explains how violence can be treated using the same methods physicians use to successfully stop an epidemic.