The center, which was initially announced May 29, focuses on preventing gun violence through care innovation, research and education.
“It is increasingly and distressingly clear that gun violence is a public health crisis in the U.S., claiming lives and creating trauma with untold, long-lasting consequences for countless people,” said Bechara Choucair, MD, chief health officer and senior vice president for community health at Kaiser Permanente. “As a major health care organization caring for 12.6 million people, we are in a unique position to expand, amplify, and implement promising work underway by health care and public health leaders to prevent future gun-related injuries and deaths, starting with a series of grants to organizations focused on addressing gun violence.”
The grant recipients are:
- The Ad Council
- The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
- Big Cities Health Coalition
- Health Alliance for Violence Intervention
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform
- RAND Corp.
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, San Diego
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