News Scholars Renew Calls for U.S. to Fund Research on Gun Violence.

Crime Lab Scholars Renew Calls for U.S. to Fund Research on Gun Violence

Inside Higher Ed / October 3, 2017
By Scott Jaschik

In 2013, dozens of scholars organized by the Crime Lab of the University of Chicago released a letter calling for Congress to lift restrictions that have led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other agencies to avoid funding research on gun violence.

The letter noted that in a 40-year period, the United States had experienced 400 cases of cholera and that the National Institutes of Health had funded 212 grants on cholera. The 1,337 cases of diphtheria had led to 56 NIH grants. But more than four million firearms injuries? The NIH funded only three grants on that topic.

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