Treating Gun Violence with a Public Health Approach

On December 20th, 2019, the Trump administration approved a fiscal 2020 spending agreement that will allocate 25 million dollars to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for research on gun violence. This agreement ends an effective ban on federal funding of gun violence research in place since 1996, and represents an important opportunity to depoliticize the gun violence epidemic by using a public health approach.