Ep. 101. Guns, Cars, and Pediatric Deaths

You've probably heard the headline: guns and cars are the leading causes of death among children. But to understand what policymakers can actually do to bring down rates of firearm and motor vehicle fatalities, researchers are going deeper into the intersection of age, sex, race, and ethnicity in mortality rates. On this episode ofPolicy Outsider, hear from two co-authors of a recently published article on firearm and motor vehicle pediatric deaths in the journal JAMA Pediatrics how prevention efforts need to be targeted across different high-risk subgroups to be most effective in bringing down the number of children killed by cars and guns.

Guests

• Jaclyn Schildkraut,Executive Director, Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium
• Eric Fleegler,Pediatric Emergency Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Lois K. Lee,Senior Associate in Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Learn More

• Firearm and Motor Vehicle Pediatric Deaths—Intersections of Age, Sex, Race, and Ethnicity (JAMA Pediatrics)