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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed legislation on Monday, May 22 enacting extreme risk protection orders, also known as red flag laws. April Zeoli, professor of Health Management and Policy and policy core director at the U-M Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention, discusses the laws and what research tells us about their use in preventing firearm injuries and death.
Paula Lantz, the James B. Hudak Professor of Health Policy at U-M’s Ford School of Public Policy and professor of Health Management and Policy at Michigan Public Health, discusses how restrictive abortion policies in the US are predicted to have negative effects on maternal health, women’s economic opportunities and social welfare systems.
Housing insecurity—which encompasses the dimensions of housing unaffordability, inaccessibility, and inadequacy—is a major public health issue. Roshanak Mehdipanah, associate professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, examines housing insecurity in this paper published in The Milbank Quarterly.
We spoke with Roshanak Mehdipanah, an associate professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, to learn more about a new initiative she is leading called Housing Solutions for Health Equity.
University of Michigan researcher April Zeoli discusses the implications of a recent Texas judge's decision to strike down the federal law prohibiting access to firearms on domestic violence protection orders.
Extreme risk protection orders, also known as red flag laws, can help prevent firearm injury events, including multiple victim/mass shootings, by addressing the threat prior to an event occurring, according to new research led by University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers.