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This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. Today, violence reduction councils. These groups bring together first responders,

community-based organizations, lawmakers, and others to crunch huge amounts of data to pinpoint

how homicides and shootings could be prevented. Dr. Mallory O'Brien, an assistant scientist

with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, joins us to talk about a new toolkit she and colleagues developed for the Bloomberg American Health Initiative that helps these groups organize and save lives in their communities. Let's listen.

Dr. Mallory O'Brien, thank you so much for joining us on public health on call.

Today we're talking about violence reduction councils.

Can you walk us through what those are?

Absolutely.

Thank you for having me, Lindsay.

So violence reduction council is really a framework for communities to be thinking about violence prevention.

What we've learned over time, we, myself and my colleagues, is that for violence prevention to be

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