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Professor David Hemenway, the author of “Private Guns, Public Health” joins us to explain how we can reduce gun deaths if we treat the problem more like a public health issue, just like Ralph proved when dealing with the auto industry. Plus, Ralph weighs in on the repeal of the child tax credit, and Francesco DeSantis reports news items that tend to get ignored in the corporate media in our segment “In Case You Haven't Heard.”David Hemenway is an economist, Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University, and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center. He is a former Nader's Raider, and he is the author of Private Guns, Public Health,  and While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention.Just by making it harder for criminals to get those guns, we have fewer criminals using those guns. That's a fundamental law of economics and of psychology— if you don't want people to do something, make it harder. If you want them to do it more, make it easier.David HemenwayThe key about public health is: what we're trying to do is prevent. Prevent. Prevent. Prevent. And too often, in the United States, what we try to do is blame. And often, blaming, all it does is say “Oh I don't have to do anything. It's somebody else's fault.”David Hemenway[Reinstituting the Child Tax Credit] is something so simple, it's something that helps so many families, it increases consumer demand because most of this money is spent on the necessities of life… and the Republicans are blocking it in Congress and not paying a political price. And that's the story of the Democratic Party— they don't make the Republicans, who are as cruel as any Republicans in history, pay a price.Ralph NaderIn Case You Haven't Heard with Francesco DeSantis1. A Princeton University study, published at the end of August, traces the effects of unconditional cash transfers on homelessness. Focusing on Vancouver, Canada, researchers gave homeless people $7,500 Canadian. Conforming to the results of previous studies, the subjects used this money to get into housing – yet, what was remarkable about this study is it showed this program actually saved taxpayers money overall by relieving $8,277 per subject by removing them from the shelter system.2. From Axios: 15 Senators have penned a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urging him to stop the planned admission of Israel into the Visa Waiver program. This program allows a country's citizens to travel within the United States for 90 days without a visa. Built into this program is a provision demanding US citizens in a given country are treated equally – which is not the case for Palestinian Americans living in the West Bank. Israel claims that they are working to achieve compliance with this section of the law; however, this group of Senators argue that “There is no provision in law that provides that a visa waiver country can discriminate against certain groups of U.S. citizens for the first seven months of the program simply because a country claims they will treat all U.S. citizens equally for the last five months."3. California Democrat Ro Khanna is making his pitch that President Biden should campaign on reelection on an anti-corruption platform, per the Huffington Post. Khanna, who previously chaired the Bernie Sanders campaign in California, has authored a five-point plan, consisting of “banning candidates for federal office from receiving donations from lobbyists or political action committees of any kind, banning members of Congress from trading stocks, limiting Supreme Court appointees to 18-year terms, imposing 12-year term limits on members of Congress, and requiring federal judges and Supreme Court justices to adhere to a new and more robust code of ethics.” Beyond the hard policy though, is a political point – Khanna argues “What we cannot allow to happen is for a former president ― twice impeached and four times indicted ― to position himself as the outsider in the race.”4. On September 7th, General Motors submitted a proposal to the United Autoworkers in a near last ditch attempt to stave off a strike from the newly re-energized union. In response, UAW president Shawn Fain released the following statement, “After refusing to bargain in good faith for the past six weeks, only after having federal labor board charges filed against them, GM has come to the table with an insulting proposal that doesn't come close to an equitable agreement for America's autoworkers. GM either doesn't care or isn't listening when we say we need economic justice at GM by 11:59pm on September 14th. The clock is ticking. Stop wasting our members' time. Tick tock.”5. On September 10th, Senator Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to the Chair of the Federal Election Commission urging her to crackdown on “telemarketing calls and online scams that prey on [Americans'] goodwill and civic engagement,” noting that a recent charity scam defrauded consumers of over $150 million dollars, while a recent “network of scam…(PACs) took in $140 million.” Many speculate that Senator Blumenthal was spurred to act on this issue following the release of a documentary series on telemarketing scams focusing on the Civic Development Group, which raised vast sums for charities, which only received between 10 and 15% of that money. The Civic Development Group has itself been shut down by the FTC.         6. Labor journalist Michael Sainato reports that last week, the NLRB ruled in favor of the United Mine Workers of America, blocking Warrior Met Coal's attempt to stage a decertification election at their Brookwood, Alabama facility. UMWA President Cecil E. Roberts is quoted saying the NLRB “based [its] decision on a ruling…that determined Warrior Met Coal...violated the law before the strike began, continue to violate the law today, and intend to keep violating it in the future.” The UMWA strike against Warrior Met is the longest coal strike in Alabama history.7. The Intercept reports Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican of Tennessee has introduced a new amendment to the NDAA which would bar the Pentagon from providing assistance to Pakistan amid the “ongoing crackdown by the military establishment and its civilian allies.” Pakistan has been experiencing political turmoil since the ouster of popular president Imran Khan on dubious legal grounds. Pakistan is a major recipient of US military assistance and the Biden administration has resisted attempts to reign in the ruling regime since Khan was deposed.8. A new piece in Insider covers the clash of conservative and liberal populist Senators JD Vance of Ohio and John Fetterman of Pennsylvania. The two have been collaborating on rail safety legislation following the East Palestine derailment, and we have covered the degeneration of this legislation on the show before. Now, Vance is turning his attention to banning mask mandates, which Fetterman calls  “silly performance art” which is taking time and attention away from the stalled rail safety bill.9. Finally, a cover story in the Nation chronicles the “Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower.” The author was assigned to the McKinsey teams advising ICE and the Rikers Island prison, and he lays out how he tried and failed to resist the brutal and insidious nature of these institutions from inside the firm. The story is worth reading in its entirety to see behind the curtain of a firm which tries to wrap itself in platitudes like “Change the world. Improve lives.” Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

In this episode of Colloquy, part two of our discussion of guns and public health in America. In part one, we got a sense of the scope of the problem: nearly 400 million guns owned by US civilians, over 45,000 gun deaths in 2020, dramatically elevated risk of suicide among people who own handguns, and much more. So, can anything be done about the problem in a society as politically polarized as ours? David Hemenway, one of the country's leading experts on guns and public health, says yes. If we set aside our prejudices and assumptions and focus on areas of common concern, we can work together to improve safety and public health—even in places where gun rights are sacrosanct. But Hemenway says we shouldn't stop there. There's plenty to be done in states like Massachusetts, where guns are more strictly regulated.David Hemenway is a professor of health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. The author of five books, Professor Hemenway, has written widely on injury prevention, including firearms, violence, and suicide. He headed the pilot for the National Violent Death Reporting System, which provides detailed and comparable information on suicide and homicide. In 2012, he was recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the 20 most influential injury and violence professionals over the past 20 years. Professor Hemenway got his PhD from GSAS in 1974. 

In this episode of Colloquy, part one of a discussion about guns and public health in America. We'll move past the horrors of Uvalde—and El Paso, and Parkland, and Orlando, and Las Vegas, and Sandy Hook—and talk about the larger issues: too many gun deaths and injuries, too little training, information, and regulation. Leading us in the discussion is David Hemenway, professor of health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.

David Hemenway, PhD, is Professor of Health Policy, and the Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Please subscribe to the Injury Prevention Podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review and a 5-star rating on the Injury Prevention Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/injury-prevention-podcast/id942473946). Thank you for listening!

In this Patrons-Only bonus episode, Wes and Eneasz are joined by Gray to talk about gun policy! This is a preview of our discussion. For access to the full episode,    Here's some stuff we talked about:   Wikipedia on gun violence in the US  Sam Harris - the Riddle of the Gun Eneasz's blog on gun responsibility Harvard Injury Control Research Center findings: Tark and Kleck 2004 study National Academy of Sciences Report The Gunfighter (narrated by Nick Offerman) Got something to say? Come chat with us on the Bayesian Conspiracy Discord or email us at themindkillerpodcast@gmail.com. Say something smart and we'll mention you on the next show!   Follow us! RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/themindkiller Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mind-killer/id1507508029 Google: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Iqs7r7t6cdxw465zdulvwikhekm Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/vvcmifu6  Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-mind-killer    Intro/outro music: On Sale by Golden Duck Orchestra   This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mindkiller.substack.com/subscribe

Gun violence is endemic in the United States. It’s become a politically polarized topic and the discourse, which tends to focus on mass shootings, is replete with misinformation. Key questions underlying this debate are inherently epidemiological and population research can help separate fact from fiction. For example, what does the data tell us about trends in gun ownership and gun violence in the United States? To what extent are gun deaths attributable to mass shootings and murders versus gun suicides? What policy levers regulate gun ownership and use, and what do we know (and not know) about their impacts? In this episode, guest Dr. David Hemenway, Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, joins Matt Fox and Arijit Nandi in grappling with these fundamental questions, and tries to bridge the gap between the perceived and actual reality of gun violence in the United States.  

This week, we have a very special collaborative show with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s podcast, This Week in Health. We are featuring perspectives on gun violence from the trauma bay of the emergency room with Megan Ranney, and from public health, with David Hemenway. Megan Ranney, MD MPH is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University and also Chief Research Officer for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine, a non-partisan philanthropy focused on filling the funding gap for high-quality, medically-focused, firearm injury research. David Hemenway is Professor of Health Policy, is Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center at the TH Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Hemenway teaches classes on injury and on economics. Dr. Hemenway has written widely on injury prevention, including articles on firearms, violence, suicide, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, fires, falls and fractures. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

Abril traz muita aventura, com animações da Pixar e seriados da Netflix, comédia com armas no trabalho e entrevistas de emprego, curtas sobre diferenças e semelhanças religiosas, estudos da Harvard, relatos mundiais sobre masculinidade tóxica e sexismo e documentários imperdíveis.Então prepare-se para acabar com todo seu tédio e terminar o mês com chave de ouro, na seleção premium de indicações do PQPCast!#MulheresPodcasters#OPodcastÉDelas#AtivismoNaWeb#TDAHpodcasters---**Indicações ativistas de abril**Xiitas e Sunitas- Shia & Sunni (YouTube) https://youtu.be/lZF7KuP8VjI- Religion: Islam (BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/ataglance/glance.shtmlPosse de armas e desarmamento- Workplace Safety: Gun Edition (The Break with Michelle Wolf - YouTube) https://youtu.be/AHG-Nhuc_yc- Harvard Injury Control Research Center https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/Feminismo- Fresh Off the Boat (ABC) https://abc.go.com/shows/fresh-off-the-boat - One Day at a Time (Netflix) https://www.netflix.com/title/80095532 - Love, Death & Robots (Netflix) https://g.co/kgs/1o2fFuMasculinidade tóxica - Purl (Pixar - YouTube) https://youtu.be/B6uuIHpFkuo- Emprego (Porta dos Fundos - YouTube) https://youtu.be/IWr-rydhEcA - Everyday Sexism project https://everydaysexism.com/- The Mask You Live In (A Máscara Em Que Você Vive - Netflix) https://www.netflix.com/title/80076159?s=i&trkid=13747225---**Episódios relacionados do PQPCast**- PQPCast #222 - Por que a História do feminismo na China foi reprimida com pés de lótus? (Parte 1) #OPodcastÉDelas2019 http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/222-historia-feminismo-china- PQPCast #223 - Por que o feminismo na China atual é a filha única de uma revolução cultural? (Parte 2) #OPodcastÉDelas2019 http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/223-feminismo-china-atual- PQPCast #191 - Por que o feminismo é a mudança que a sociedade precisa? (Especial 4 anos) http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/191-feminismo- PQPCast #213 - Por que livros feministas lutam contra relacionamentos abusivos na Dark Net fazendo maquiagem chinesa? (Indicações dezembro/2018) http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/2018/12/24/213-feminista-relacionamentoabusivo-darknet-maquiagem---Assine nosso Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/pqpcast**Twitter**- PQPCast: [@_pqpcast] https://twitter.com/_pqpcast- Thata: [@thata_finotto] https://twitter.com/thata_finotto- Natália: [@nahmattos] https://twitter.com/nahmattos- #PodcasterProcura: [@PodProcura] https://twitter.com/podprocura**Facebook**- Página De Por Quê? Pra PQP! https://www.facebook.com/pqpcast- Grupo Ouvintes do PQPCast https://www.facebook.com/groups/ouvintesdopqpcast/**Instagram**- PQPCast: [@pqpcast] https://www.instagram.com/pqpcast/**Telegram**- Canal #PodcasterProcura [@PodProcura] https://t.me/PodProcuraEdição: Andrey Mattos https://twitter.com/matttos_ Apoio cultural: Kairós Soluções Empresariais http://kairoscorp.com.br/

Em 2003, o Brasil aprovou o Estatuto do Desarmamento, com objetivo de reduzir a circulação de armas e aumentar penas para porte ilegal e contrabando. Essa era uma medida para combater a violência no país, porém ele sofreu muitas alterações para flexibilizar as leis. Apesar disso, cerca de 121 mil vidas foram salvas, segundo estimativas do Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea) e pesquisas da Harvard comprovam que menos de 1% das vítimas com acesso a armas de fogo, as usam para se defender em situações de contato.No episódio de hoje vamos discutir sobre desarmamentos, posse e porte de armas no Brasil e no mundo, suas consequências como dobrar a taxa de homicídios cada vez que armas se tornam mais disponíveis, e também os mitos e verdades que rodeiam o assunto. Então, prepare-se para entender tudo sobre armamentos, autodefesa, estatísticas de crimes e legislação brasileira no treinamento intensivo de segurança do PQPCast!#MulheresPodcasters#OPodcastÉDelas#AtivismoNaWeb---**Convidado**- Psicocast http://www.psicocast.com.br/- Psicocast (Twitter - @psicocast) https://twitter.com/psicocast- Rafael Cerqueira (Twitter - @PsicoRafaelC) https://twitter.com/psicorafaelc- Psicólogo Rafael Cerqueira (página Facebook) https://www.facebook.com/psicorafaelcerqueira/---**Links de referência**- Estatuto do Desarmamento http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/LEIS/2003/L10.826.htm - Harvard Injury Control Research Center https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/ - Dados de Morbimortalidade Masculina no Brasil (Ministério da Saúde - PDF) http://portalarquivos2.saude.gov.br/images/pdf/2018/novembro/07/Perfil-da-morbimortalidade-masculina-no-Brasil.pdf- Dados de Morbimortalidade Masculina no Brasil (Ministério da Saúde - resumo) http://portalarquivos2.saude.gov.br/images/pdf/2018/fevereiro/19/Folder---dados-de-morbimortalidade-masculina-no-Brasil.pdf - Mortes violentas atingem até 11 vezes mais homens que mulheres jovens (IBGE) https://agenciadenoticias.ibge.gov.br/agencia-noticias/2012-agencia-de-noticias/noticias/22868-mortes-violentas-atingem-ate-11-vezes-mais-homens-que-mulheres-jovens- Decreto de Bolsonaro facilita posse de arma; entenda como funciona a lei e o que muda agora https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-46832821- Flexibilizar posse de arma pode deixar mulheres mais vulneráveis em casa https://exame.abril.com.br/brasil/flexibilizacao-da-posse-pode-deixar-mulheres-mais-vulneraveis-em-casa/- Entenda o Estatuto do Desarmamento, que mudou as regras de porte e posse de armas em 2003 https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2019/01/16/entenda-o-estatuto-do-desarmamento-que-mudou-as-regras-de-porte-e-posse-de-armas-em-2003.ghtml- Posse de armas: saiba o que muda com o decreto assinado por Bolsonaro https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2019/01/15/posse-de-armas-saiba-o-que-muda-com-o-decreto-assinado-por-bolsonaro.ghtml- The Mask You Live In (A Máscara Em Que Você Vive) https://www.netflix.com/title/80076159?s=i&trkid=13747225- Dupla ataca escola em Suzano, mata oito pessoas e se suicida https://g1.globo.com/sp/mogi-das-cruzes-suzano/noticia/2019/03/13/tiros-deixam-feridos-em-escola-de-suzano.ghtml- Massacre em Suzano: o que falta saber sobre o ataque à escola Raul Brasil https://noticias.uol.com.br/cotidiano/ultimas-noticias/2019/03/21/massacre-em-suzano-o-que-falta-saber-sobre-o-ataque-a-escola-raul-brasil.htm- 'I can tell you right now, our gun laws will change': New Zealand prime minister calls for change after deadliest mass shooting in the country's history https://www.businessinsider.com/new-zealand-gun-laws-will-change-prime-minister-says-2019-3?utm_content=buffer79248&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-insider-design---**Episódios relacionados do PQPCast**- PQPCast #228 - Por que a masculinidade tóxica mata homens desde cedo? http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/228-masculinidade-toxica - PQPCast #209 - Por que relacionamentos abusivos sugam a sua vontade de viver? #AtivismoNaWeb http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/209-relacionamento-abusivo - PQPCast #121 - Por que feminicídio não é crime passional? http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/121-feminicidio - PQPCast #201 - Por que o aumento do feminincídio negro é uma questão de segurança pública? http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/201-feminicidio-negro - PQPCast #171 - Por que segmentação das crianças deixa marcas permanentes? http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/171-brinquedos - PQPCast #186 - Por que nossas tribos polarizam o pensamento de massa? http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/186-tribalismo - PQPCast #196 - Por que ansiedade é o limiar entre a evolução humana e o transtorno? http://www.pqpcast.com/blog/196-ansiedade ---Assine nosso Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/pqpcast**Twitter**- PQPCast: (@_pqpcast) https://twitter.com/_pqpcast- Thata: (@thata_finotto) https://twitter.com/thata_finotto- Natália: (@nahmatto) https://twitter.com/nahmattos- #PodcasterProcura: (@PodProcura) https://twitter.com/podprocura**Facebook**- Página De Por Quê? 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The majority of Americans with guns own them for self-defense. But how common is defensive gun use? And what do these self-defense incidents look like? Guests: David Hemenway, Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and the author of Private Guns, Public Health; Sara Solnick, Chair of Economics at the University of Vermont; Gary Kleck, Professor Emeritus of Criminology at Florida State University, and author of Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America; and Philip Cook, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Economics and Sociology at Duke University, and the author of The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know. | insicknessandinhealthpodcast.com | glow.fm/insicknessandinhealth | #EndGunViolence #GunViolence #GVP #GunSafety #MentalHealth #MentalIllness #Suicide #SuicidePrevention #MeansMatter #Instrumentality #SelfDefense #GaryKleck #ERPO #ExtremeRiskProtectionOrder #RedFlag #GVPO #MassShooting #IntimatePartnerViolence #DomesticViolence #EveryTown #MomsDemandAction #MomsDemand #StudentsDemandAction #StudentsDemand #MarchForOurLives #BradyCampaign #FamilyFire #Giffords #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #ThisIsOurLane #EnoughIsEnough #NeverAgain #NationalEmergency #MedHum #MedHumChat #NarrativeMedicine #HealthHumanities #SocialMedicine #SocialJustice #SDoH

Medicine Grand Rounds February 8, 2019 David Hemenway, PhD Professor of Health Policy Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Director, Harvard Injury Control Research Center

Each year in the U.S. more than 30,000 people are killed by guns—with two-thirds of those deaths being suicide. And there are tens of thousands non-fatal injuries. Yet research into preventing firearm violence remains limited and under-funded. In a special collaborative episode with Review of Systems we’re taking an in-depth look at gun violence in America: why we know so little about the toll of firearm injuries and deaths, what researchers want to know, and how they are engaging gun owners and enthusiasts as key stakeholders in advocating for more research. Full Transcript: hsph.me/gun-violence-pod You'll hear perspectives on gun violence from the emergency room, with Megan Ranney, and from public health, with David Hemenway. Ranney is an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University and also chief research officer for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine, a non-partisan philanthropy focused on filling the funding gap for high-quality, medically-focused, firearm injury research. Hemenway is a professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He has written widely on injury prevention, on topics including firearms, violence, suicide, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, fires, falls, and fractures.

Each year in the U.S. more than 30,000 people are killed by guns—with two-thirds of those deaths being suicide. And there are tens of thousands non-fatal injuries. Yet research into preventing firearm violence remains limited and under-funded. In a special collaborative episode with Review of Systems we’re taking an in-depth look at gun violence in America: why we know so little about the toll of firearm injuries and deaths, what researchers want to know, and how they are engaging gun owners and enthusiasts as key stakeholders in advocating for more research. You'll hear perspectives on gun violence from the emergency room, with Megan Ranney, and from public health, with David Hemenway. Ranney is an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University and also chief research officer for the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine, a non-partisan philanthropy focused on filling the funding gap for high-quality, medically-focused, firearm injury research. Hemenway is a professor of health policy at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. He has written widely on injury prevention, on topics including firearms, violence, suicide, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, fires, falls, and fractures. You can subscribe to Harvard Chan: This Week in Health by visiting iTunes or Google Play and you can listen to it by following us on Soundcloud, and stream it on the Stitcher app or on Spotify. Learn more Doctors affirm commitment to reducing gun violence (Harvard Chan School news) New recommendations urge doctors to talk to patients about guns (Harvard Chan School news) Uncommon Ground (Harvard Public Health magazine)

In episode 32, Dr. Zhana and Joe talk to Dr. Emily Rothman about the benefits of educating kids about porn. A new study reported on joint efforts by folks at Boston University and the Boston Public Health Commission to educate young people about pornography, in hopes that they would develop a more realistic understanding of what porn is, how it’s made, and how it relates to real-life sex and bodies. These programs have been proven to work and be extremely beneficial for young people. On this week’s episode we spoke to the lead author on this study, Dr. Emily Rothman. Read study discussed https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15546128.2018.1437100 (here)! About Our Guest Emily F. Rothman, ScD, is a Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health with secondary appointments at the Boston University School of Medicine in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine. She is also a visiting scientist at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Dr. Rothman has authored more than 80 publications that span the areas of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, firearm violence, and pornography. She has been a PI or co-investigator on numerous federal research grants from entities including the NIH and NIJ , and worked closely with multiple state sexual assault and domestic violence coalitions, state health departments, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on issues related to sexual assault prevention. Dr. Rothman received her master’s and doctoral degrees in public health from Harvard University. Interested in incorporating porn literacy for teens in your school or youth group? Sign up for this June 30th training in Boston! This training is for teachers, counselors and youth workers who want to learn how to deliver this curriculum to youth in their locale. You can register on the website for this event here! Don’t Miss This Week’s Foreplay… A new study suggests that millennials are waiting longer to have sex with one in eight still virgins at the age of 26. This could be due to a “fear of intimacy” that is thought to be caused by social media. Many young people feel intense pressure due to the exposure of hyper-sexualized images in the mass media plus their own social media presence. Previous generations reported that one in 20 were virgins at this age. Read full article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/06/millennials-turned-sex-study-suggests-one-eight-still-virgins/ (here)! Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest LinkedIn 0Shares

March 22, 2018 — On February 14, 2018, a gunman opened fire inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people and wounding 17 more. That shooting and the students who survived have reignited a national conversation about guns under the banner "Never Again." On March 24, people across the country will gather for the March for Our Lives to protest gun violence—and to call for changes in firearm policy. Ahead of the nationwide marches we spoke to David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and one of America’s top firearms researchers. Hemenway discussed why these student-led protests may finally be the tipping point for gun legislation in America. Plus—he explained the public health approach to preventing gun violence and shared the changes to firearms policy that could have the biggest impact on saving lives. You can subscribe to this podcast by visiting iTunes, listen to it by following us on Soundcloud, and stream it on the Stitcher app or on Spotify. Learn more Firearms research (Harvard Injury Control Research Center) Lethal means and suicide (Harvard Injury Control Research Center)

On February 14, 2018, a gunman opened fire inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 people and wounding 17 more. That shooting and the students who survived have reignited a national conversation about guns under the banner "Never Again." On March 24, people across the country will gather for the March for Our Lives to protest gun violence—and to call for changes in firearm policy. Ahead of the nationwide marches we spoke to David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and one of America’s top firearms researchers. Hemenway discussed why these student-led protests may finally be the tipping point for gun legislation in America. Plus—he explained the public health approach to preventing gun violence and shared the changes to firearms policy that could have the biggest impact on saving lives.

This week, some interviews and stories from the archive. We look at the data on gun deaths in Vermont, and think through ways to prevent suicides in places where gun ownership is part of life for many. Plus, Orange is the New Black actress Yael Stone reveals the thinking behind her character’s blend of Boston and Brookyln accents, and we talk with a linguist about how the way New Englanders talk is changing. Also, wicked powda, wicked cheap: a visit to a down-home mountain where skiing is affordable for the masses. Can you spot the dialect difference in this bagel shop menu? From the (now closed) Bagel Basement in Hanover, New Hampshire. Courtesy of James Stanford Under the Gun For many people in Vermont, guns are a way of life. Unlike more populous, more urban states in our region, Vermonters own guns at a higher rate, and fiercely protect their gun rights. That means looser gun laws than in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island; but also a higher per capita rate of gun deaths than in those states. Reporters at Vermont Public Radio looked into the numbers behind this reality, and found some surprising data and personal stories.  They learned that 420 people died from gunshot wounds in Vermont between 2011 and 2016. Eighty-nine percent of those deaths were suicides. Data visualization by Taylor Dobbs for Vermont Public Radio Cragin’s Gun Shop in Rutland, Vt. primarily serves hunters. Owner John Cragin said suicide is a tricky issue – but if he has any doubts about selling someone a gun, he won’t make the sale. Photo by Liam Elder-Connors for VPR Our guest Taylor Dobbs produced the reporting project “Gunshots: Vermont Gun Deaths, 2011-2016″ last summer, when he was digital reporter at Vermont Public Radio. (Dobbs is now an investigative and statehouse reporter for Seven Days.) We were also joined by Matthew Miller, M.D., a professor of health sciences and Epidemiology at Northeastern University and co-director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. VPR has made the death certificate data gathered for the project public. You can find a spreadsheet here. The Shifting New England Accent The Netflix prison drama “Orange is the New Black” features a woman with a Boston-flavored accent. Bit this character's way of talking is complicated, and so is her story. Developing that sound brought actress Yael Stone to Boston. There, she she met up with WBUR’s Sarah Rose Brenner, who has this report. A linguistic map based on 626 recent recordings collected by James Stanford and others from speakers around New England. Speakers in the red areas tend to pronounce the vowels in the words “lot” and “thought” the same way. Speakers in blue areas tend to pronounce the vowels in each word differently. Dropped Rs and long As can be heard, of course, not only in Boston, but across much of New England. Yet in a 2012 paper published in the Journal of American Speech, Dartmouth College linguist James Stanford and his colleagues made the case that a classic New England accent is receding. In a recent study, Stanford and his partners used an online crowd-sourcing tool to reach over 600 speakers around the region. This big data set allowed them to tease out subtle differences in the way people from different parts of New England talk. Their results will be published this year in American Speech. James Stanford joined us to discuss some of his team’s findings. Chaeyoon Kim, Sravana Reddy, Ezra Wyschogrod, and Jack Grieve are co-authors on the study. For a deep dive into the Vermont accent, we highly recommend the very first episode of Vermont Public Radio’s podcast Brave Little State. Are you proud of your accent? A little embarrassed? Or maybe you don't have an accent at all (or you don't think you do!) Tell us about it on Twitter or Facebook. You can also record yourself –or your loved one– on your phone’s voice recorder/ voice memo app. Send a clip to next@wnpr.org. Powder to the People A hand-painted sign hangs on the wall at the Veterans Memorial Recreation Area in Franklin, New Hampshire. Photo courtesy of NHPR. Here in New England, downhill skiing comes with a high price tag and a ritzy reputation. A lift ticket at Sugarloaf in Maine will run you $95, and at Jay Peak in Vermont, the price is $84. Even at Ski Sundown, a small mountain in Connecticut, getting on the slopes on a Saturday or Sunday costs $60. But at Veterans Memorial Ski Area in Franklin, New Hampshire, admission is just $20. Instead of a chair lift, there's a metal bar that goes behind the thighs, attached to a rope that pulls skiers up the 230-foot hill. Once upon a time, these no-frills ski areas were the rule in New England, rather than the exception. So what happened? The team at New Hampshire Public Radio’s podcast Outside/In went to Franklin to figure out how skiing “got fancy.” For more, listen to the full Outside/In episode, “Gnar Pow.” Connecticut is not known for big mountains. But if you travel to the far northwest corner, the Berkshires rise to nearly 2400 feet in the tiny town of Salisbury. It's there that you find a little piece of Nordic sporting history. For 92 years, Salisbury has been hosting “Jumpfest,” a celebration of ski jumping. During the main event, skiers in brightly colored suits fly off a snow-covered ramp, on top of a 220-foot hill. Spectators ring cowbells and drink hot toddies, but this isn't just for fun. The competition is a qualifier for the junior nationals, and most of the jumpers on the big hill are between 12 and 16. NEXT producer Andrea Muraskin paid a visit to last year’s festival and brought back this audio postcard. The 2018 Jumpfest runs February 9 through 11, and is open to the public. About NEXT NEXT is produced at WNPR. Host: John Dankosky Producer: Andrea Muraskin Executive Producer: Catie Talarski Contributors to this episode: Taylor Dobbs, Sarah Rose Brenner, Sam Evans-Brown, Jimmy Gutierrez, and Maureen McMurray Music: Todd Merrell, “New England” by Goodnight Blue Moon Get all the NEXT episodes. We appreciate your feedback! Send praise, critique, suggestions, questions, story leads, and recordings of your uncle’s accent to next@wnpr.org.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paola, 19, has lived most of her life in the U.S. after being brought from El Salvador by her mother when she was a child. She received deferred action in 2016 and Tuesday was her first day of classes at UMass Boston. Photo by Shannon Dooling for WBUR In Vermont, suicides account for 89 percent of gun-related deaths. Why is that percentage so high, and what’s being done to lower the risk? Also, we learn how the region is reacting to President Trump’s decision to end the DACA program. And we explore the wide variety of accents that color the speech of New Englanders and how those sounds are changing. Finally, we wade into an offshore war between Maine and New Hampshire and visit a summer camp with a colonial flair. It’s NEXT! You can stream the entire episode by clicking play on the embedded media player above or listen to the embedded SoundCloud files below for individual reports.  At Risk Students at Eastern Connecticut State University protest President Trump’s decision to end protections for undocumented young people on Tuesday, September 5, 2017. Photo by Ryan Caron King for WNPR We've been hearing the voices of young people around New England whose future is very uncertain. About 15,000 immigrants in our region have been granted temporary status under the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. The Obama-era initiative allows young people whose parents brought them to the country illegally to live and work in the United States. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that the government will phase out the DACA program. Many elected officials have reacted sharply toward that decision and four New England States have joined a lawsuit in support of DACA recipients. As reporter Shannon Dooling found, this news came at a difficult time for many students. She went to the University of Massachusetts-Boston on the first day of school with this report. Cragin’s Gun Shop in Rutland, Vt. primarily serves hunters. Owner John Cragin said suicide is a tricky issue – but if he has any doubts about selling someone a gun, he won’t make the sale. Photo by Liam Elder-Connors for VPR For many people in Vermont, guns are a way of life. Unlike more populous, more urban states in our region, Vermonters own guns at a higher rate and fiercely protect their gun rights. That means looser gun laws than in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island — but also a higher rate of gun deaths per capita than in those states. Vermont Public Radio wanted to look into the numbers behind this reality and found some surprising data and personal stories. Four hundred twenty people died from gunshot wounds in Vermont between 2011 and 2016. Eighty-nine percent of those deaths were suicides. Data visualization by Taylor Dobbs for Vermont Public Radio Our guest Taylor Dobbs is the digital reporter at Vermont Public Radio, and he produced the reporting project “Gunshots: Vermont Gun Deaths, 2011-2016.” We’re also joined by Matthew Miller, M.D., a professor of health sciences and Epidemiology at Northeastern University and co-director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. VPR has made the death certificate data gathered for the project public. See the spreadsheet here. The Shifting New England Accent The Netflix prison drama “Orange is the New Black” features a woman with a Boston-flavored accent. In fact, this character's way of talking is a little more complicated than that, and so is her story. Developing that sound brought actress Yael Stone to Boston. There, she met up with WBUR’s Sarah Rose Brenner, who has this report. Dropped Rs and long As can be heard, of course, not only in Boston but across much of New England. But in a 2012 paper published in the Journal of American Speech, Dartmouth College linguist James Stanford and his colleagues make the case that a classic New England accent is receding. Can you spot the dialect division in this bagel shop menu? From the (now closed) Bagel Basement in Hanover, New Hampshire. Courtesy of James Stanford In a study currently under peer review, Stanford and his partners used an online crowd-sourcing tool to reach over 600 speakers around the region. This big data set allowed them to tease out subtle differences in the way people from different parts of New England talk. James Stanford joins us to discuss some of his team’s findings. Chaeyoon Kim, Sravana Reddy, Ezra Wyschogrod, and Jack Grieve are co-authors on the study. For a deep dive into the Vermont accent, we highly recommend the very first episode of Vermont Public Radio’s podcast Brave Little State. Lobster Pots and Chamber Pots This map, produced by NH Fish & Game in 1976, details the claims made by both sides in the lobster wars. Courtesy Portsmouth Athenaeum Off the coast of New Hampshire are the iconic Isles of Shoals. Somewhere around the middle of those isles, there’s a dotted line: the state border between New Hampshire and Maine. As New Hampshire Public Radio's Jason Moon learned, that line has been the cause of some intense disagreement over the years among lobstermen. It's back-to-school time in New England. And in their “what I did this summer” essays, some Connecticut kids might be writing about the week they spent in 1774. Each year, the Noah Webster House in West Hartford, the childhood home of the founder of the American dictionary, holds Colonial Children's Camp. The program gives kids a taste of what daily life was like in Webster's time. NEXT producer Andrea Muraskin paid a visit. About NEXT NEXT is produced at WNPR. Host: John Dankosky Producer: Andrea Muraskin Executive Producer: Catie Talarski Digital Content Manager/Editor: Heather Brandon Contributors to this episode: Shannon Dooling, Taylor Dobbs, Sarah Rose Brenner, Jason Moon Music: Todd Merrell, “New England” by Goodnight Blue Moon Get all the NEXT episodes. We appreciate your feedback! Send praise, critique, suggestions, questions, story leads, and recordings of your mom’s accent to next@wnpr.org.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After the deadliest mass shooting in American history, we talk about the problem of gun violence and a possible way forward. This show’s links: Christian Turner, The Freedom to Kill and Maim About guns and suicide (literature overview) Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Firearms Research (a collection of findings on gun ownership, use, injuries, risks, and more) Dylan Matthews, What No Politician Wants to Admit about Gun Control German Lopez, America’s Gun Problem, Explained Mark Follman, Gavin Aronson, and Deanna Pan, US Mass Shootings, 1982-2016: Data from Mother Jones' Investigation

In our series “Why Public Health?” we ask Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students and alumni to talk about what drew them to the field. Charles Upton’s interest in injury prevention led him to Harvard Chan, where he has worked closely with his academic advisor David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Upton, who will receive his MPH in May, looks forward to having a network of classmates and other Harvard connections nearby wherever his career takes him. (1:51)

Listen to the podcast On Tuesday, January 22, Harvard public health researcher David Hemenway participated in a special Doctors for America “Ask the experts” policy call to share his insights on President Obama's gun violence prevention plan and other matters in health policy. David Hemenway, Ph.D., is Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.  He has won ten teaching awards at Harvard School of Public Health. He has written widely on injury prevention, including articles on firearms, violence, suicide, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, fires, falls and fractures.  He headed the pilot for the National Violent Death Reporting System, which provides detailed and comparable information on suicide and homicide. Dr. Hemenway has written numerous books and peer-review articles. His book, Private Guns Public Health(2006) describes the public health approach to reducing firearm violence, and summarized the scientific studies on the firearms and health. While You Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention (2009) describes more than sixty successes, and over thirty heroes who have made the world safer.  Listen to the podcast

Listen to the podcast On Tuesday, January 22, Harvard public health researcher David Hemenway participated in a special Doctors for America “Ask the experts” policy call to share his insights on President Obama's gun violence prevention plan and other matters in health policy. David Hemenway, Ph.D., is Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center.  He has won ten teaching awards at Harvard School of Public Health. He has written widely on injury prevention, including articles on firearms, violence, suicide, child abuse, motor vehicle crashes, fires, falls and fractures.  He headed the pilot for the National Violent Death Reporting System, which provides detailed and comparable information on suicide and homicide. Dr. Hemenway has written numerous books and peer-review articles. His book, Private Guns Public Health(2006) describes the public health approach to reducing firearm violence, and summarized the scientific studies on the firearms and health. While You Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention (2009) describes more than sixty successes, and over thirty heroes who have made the world safer.  Listen to the podcast