Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former

health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland.

Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical

health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health

question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes.

Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, guest host Keisha Pollack

Porter returns to the podcast to talk with Daniel Webster and Josh Horwitz, co-directors of the new

Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.

Webster has directed the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy since 2012,

and Horwitz has served as the executive director of the educational fund to stop gun violence for almost 30 years.

The new Center for Gun Violence Solutions is a merger of

these two institutions that will focus on research while expanding evidence-based advocacy

for effective and equitable policies to end the trauma of gun violence. Let's listen.

I am so excited for this conversation. Daniel, Josh, thank you for being here. And I'm really

excited because of this new initiative we're going to talk about that really has the ability to be

a model for the school, for the nation, really, about how we take good science and translate it

into evidence-informed solutions that can make a

difference. And so I want to unpack that today. And Daniels, let's just start with the short

description of the center that you've helped lead at Johns Hopkins for 21 years. Tell us more

about what y'all have been doing. Yeah. So we were the first academic center that formed to address the critical questions

around gun violence, particularly gun policy questions and issues.

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