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Papachristos on gun violence as public health issue on NPR

Former Harvard RWJF Health & Society Scholar Andrew Papachristos, PhD, shares the findings of a new study in JAMA Internal Medicine in this piece on NPR on how gun violence spreads over social networks like a “contagian” and should…

It's a small world ... for homicide victims

RWJF alum Andrew Papachristos  has shown that 41 percent of all gun homicide victims occur within a group that’s 4 percent of the population– or, to put it another way, belonging to that small network of 4 of the population increases…

Boston gang violence and Operation Ceasefire

Study by Andrew Papachristos, former RWJF Health & Society Scholar, confirms role of Boston Police Department Operation Ceasefire in the reduction of gang violence.