Academic Public Health and the Firearm Crisis: An Agenda for Action

The authors reflect on the need for members of the academic public health community in America to develop a social action strategy for dealing with a firearms-related crisis in the U.S. as of 2017, and it mentions gun control initiatives, business plans, and statistics regarding firearms-related deaths and suicides in America since 1900. U.S. President Donald Trump's views about gun rights are examined, along with collaborations and firearm research and scholarship in the country.