Spring 2027

Firearm Injury Prevention Population Health Selective

Population health elective covering firearm injury epidemiology, policy effects, and developing model interventions with community partners to reduce firearm injury.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 James Bigham

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe scope of firearm injury and death in the US through use of multiple frameworks, including historical, legal, social-cultural, clinical, and public health.

  • Interpret social context and history that inform the cultural roles of firearms in the US.

  • Summarize the effects of US firearm laws and policies on firearm injury and death.

  • Appraise ethical and cultural considerations affecting individual, community, and population level firearm injury reduction strategies.

  • Describe ethical collaborations with community partners.

  • Implement evidence-based interventions to promote firearm injury prevention.

  • Appraise advocacy roles and methods, including clinician-specific opportunities.

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Prerequisites

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MED SC-M 810, 811, 812, and 813

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Spring 2027
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JAMES BIGHAM is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Student experience

the class

Overview of population health interventions to promote firearm injury prevention. Gain an understanding of the epidemiology of firearm injury and death in the US. Recognize the role of clinicians in catalyzing firearm injury prevention. Establish relationships with community partners working on firearm injury prevention. Develop model interventions in collaboration with a community partner to reduce firearm injury in the community. Clinical and community interventions discussed.

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Topics

  • Epidemiology of firearm injury and death in the US
  • Historical, legal, social-cultural, clinical, and public health frameworks for firearm injury
  • Social context and cultural roles of firearms in the US
  • Effects of US firearm laws and policies
  • Developing model interventions with community partners
  • Ethical and cultural considerations in firearm injury reduction
  • Role of clinicians in catalyzing firearm injury prevention

Skills

  • Understanding the epidemiology of firearm injury and death in the US
  • Describing the scope of firearm injury and death using historical, legal, social-cultural, clinical, and public health frameworks
  • Summarizing the effects of US firearm laws and policies on injury and death
  • Describing ethical collaborations with community partners
  • Implementing evidence-based interventions to promote firearm injury prevention
  • Appraising advocacy roles and methods, including clinician-specific opportunities

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FAMMED 913 · Spring 2027

Firearm Injury Prevention Population Health Selective

Recorded 2026-10-14
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