Rod McCullom

Medical professionals who connect with their patients’ language and culture provide better care

Recent studies on technology that alerts police to gunfire have found it has little impact on shootings or prosecutions.

Lupe Washington’s job description does not include “public health scientist,” but it should. Washington is director of community health and violence prevention for the public health department of Harris County, Texas, which includes Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city. She is also part of an ongoing community-based research project looking at ways to improve programs like the one she runs.
She’s part of a trend in public health research, in which researchers involve people from the comm...

New data show the number of non-fatal police shootings is much higher than previous estimates.

In kids and adolescents, exposure to gun violence is vastly understudied. But new research uncovers the ripple effects.

More people are using cameras and sharing footage with the police, but there’s little data showing their effectiveness.

More cities and law enforcement agencies are acquiring dog-like robots fort policing and surveillance. But there is little transparency around their numbers or effectiveness.

On an overcast Saturday, January 7, Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old local amateur photographer who also worked for FedEx, decided to capture Shelby Farms’ nature and landscapes at sunset. He was returning to his family’s home in southeast Memphis later that ...

There is no one definition of “mass shooting.” Researchers say this may have implications for cities like Philadelphia.

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) was proposed by President Biden and adopted by Congress in March 2022. The Biden Administration hopes ARPA-H and its billion-dollar budget can do for biomedical innovation what the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has done for GPS, speech recognition, messenger RNA, and the internet—push high-risk, high-reward projects that catalyze change.
It’s no accident that Biden named Renee Wegrzyn director of ARPA-H on Septem...

Racism’s impact on health outcomes is a relatively recent focus of public health research. Using the word “racism” itself is still challenging for some public health scholars, despite recent data clearly showing poorer health outcomes for Black people in the United States as a group compared to white people. A growing body of research is pinpointing how structural racism—the ongoing impact of discriminatory practices—affects the health of people of color, especially Black people, from infancy...

Researchers seeking to answer this question face a key challenge: incomplete government data on police use of force.

Chicago-based pilot program is testing a body sensor that monitors covid patients remotely.

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