2024 SAFE Events
Friday, May 3 at 2 PM Eastern Time:
Rescheduled from previous event. All are welcome.
After getting a glimpse of SAFE's updated education modules and how you can help embed gun violence prevention education into 100% of our country's medical schools, you will hear from Dr. Dean Winslow, SAFE Co-Founder and Professor of Medicine at Stanford Medical School and Greg Jackson, who serves as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and a survivor of gun violence.
Zoom link sent upon registration
Partnership Alert!
SAFE has forged a partnership with Be SMART, a program of Everytown for Gun Safety’s Support Fund.
SAFE Chapters across the country have an opportunity to team with a local Be SMART chapter up to help educate your medical school community about the gun violence epidemic. You can receive support in planning an early Fall SAFE Chapter event at your medical school, focusing on the importance of secure storage education for all clinicians.
Take 30 seconds to share when in April or May are you are free for a 15-20 minute call with a local Be SMART leader.
SAFE educates health care providers and medical students about the latest research on when and how to discuss firearms with their patients. In 2019, SAFE built an online curriculum that is currently being updated. Enjoy this 45-second trailer for a preview.
Did you miss
Stand SAFE 2023?
You can watch and listen if you did. If you think someone you know or work with should see this, please share the recording with them!
Stand SAFE 2023 featured Dr. Cornelia Griggs and was facilitated by medical students Christopher Zaro and Jasman Kaur.
A collaboration between SAFE and the Public Health Coalition.
Read about SAFE's support for the Black Lives Matter movement and the steps we will take to confront systemic racism.
Watch our talk with Giffords Co-Founder and Peter Ambler
Welcome our new Executive Director Allison Volkman!
SAFE’s Board of Directors is thrilled to announce that Allison Volkman will serve as Executive Director of SAFE, beginning in April.
After a two decade career in non-profit management and fundraising, she joined the world of gun violence prevention as a Moms Demand Action volunteer in 2018, and then as a campaign organizer on staff with Doctors for America in 2019. Allison is a thought leader and a change maker and we know SAFE’s chapters across the country will be strengthened by her experience and support.
Join us in welcoming Allison to the SAFE team!
Read on Mercury News
Why we need the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 by Dr. Dean L. Winslow
We are U.S. physicians, nurses, and healthcare professionals dedicated to eliminating the American firearm violence epidemic through research, education, and evidence-based policy.
American Firearm Violence
Is An Epidemic.
Gun violence in the United States is a medical threat of epidemic proportions. In 2015, firearm related mortality rates exceeded motor vehicle traffic mortality for the first time in American history and has remained higher in all subsequent data (1). In 2016, 38,656 lives were lost to firearms, almost 8,000 of these deaths were individuals under 25; and firearms caused over 116,000 injuries. The 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic claimed 11,310 lives, less than a third of the number of deaths caused by firearms in a single year (2).
Updates from SAFE
At SAFE we are committed to ensuring that all healthcare providers are equipped with evidence-based knowledge and skills to help their patients, communities, and legislators make informed decisions on firearm use and ownership.
America's Firearm Epidemic Transcends Political Allegiance
Regardless of individual views about gun ownership, we can all agree that reducing the number of deaths and injuries from firearms is a universal goal of utmost importance.
“A natural extension of working in public hospitals is to witness gun violence as a medical and public health issue, before it is anything else. Framed in this manner, the injury to the human body, whether accidental, self-inflicted or otherwise, becomes just as preventable as the small pox and diphtheria that took lives in generations past. It is inspiring to see medical students and physicians, decorated war veterans among them, come together to carry on a shared goal: to save lives."
-Abraham Verghese MD, Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Despite the immense threat that gun violence poses to individual and public health, research barriers in the US impede our ability to gain knowledge that would allow healthcare providers and policy makers to more effectively eliminate this public health crisis.
However, the research we do have show that firearms in the home increase the risk of homicide and violent death of members of the household (3,4), and is a risk factor for suicide death (5). We aim to make Americans safer by supporting scientifically back firearm practice and policy.
ways to get involved
Reach out to us at info@standsafe.org with any questions or if you want to learn more about our work.
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much-needed research and to improve firearm safety
(1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Centers for Injury Prevention and Control. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) [online]. (2016) {cited Jul 10}. Available from: www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars
(2) “Ebola (Ebola Virus Disease).” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 27 Dec. 2017, www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/history/2014-2016-outbreak/case-counts.html.
(3) Kellermann, Arthur L., et al. "Gun ownership as a risk factor for homicide in the home." New England Journal of Medicine329.15 (1993): 1084-1091.
(4) Dahlberg, Linda L., Robin M. Ikeda, and Marcie-jo Kresnow. "Guns in the home and risk of a violent death in the home: findings from a national study." American Journal of Epidemiology 160.10 (2004): 929-936.
(5) Miller, Matthew, et al. "Firearms and suicide in the United States: is risk independent of underlying suicidal behavior?." American journal of epidemiology 178.6 (2013): 946-955.
