A year into the first study about the firearm ecosystem

More than a year after the study “Media coverage and firearm acquisition in the aftermath of a mass shooting” was published in the prestigious journal Nature Human Behaviour, Professor Maurizio Porfiri reflects on the professional and personal challenges of the past months and introduces his new ambitious project.

The endeavor, LEAP-HI: Understanding and Engineering the Ecosystem of Firearms: Prevalence, Safety, and Firearm-Related Harms, is a collaborative study that is expected to continue for four years and inspire young scientists to “pursue new research directions that could transform our society for the better”.

Read the article here.

Read the full paper, authored by Prof. Maurizio Porfiri, PhD student Raghu Ram Sattanapalle, Dr. Shinnosuke Nakayama, Prof. James Macinko, and Prof. Rifat Sipahi published in here.