Physicians

We serve as health advocates for the nation because we're doctors. The goal is to encourage safe and responsible ownership of guns and use through research, and education.

PREVENTION

Prevent Gun Violence

Gun Safety

Take these four simple steps to help protect your family and prevent these avoidable tragedies.

How to Counsel

Learn how to effectively assess risk, talk with patients about access to firearms, and intervene appropriately.

Mental Health Holds

Mental health holds can help people at risk of suicide or violence get into psychiatric care.

Community Support

Community support resource for those impacted by gun violence and how to prevent it.

Surgeon General issues landmark advisory declaring gun violence a public health crisis

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D. issued a landmark Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence on June 25, declaring firearm...

Study: Nearly 100,000 children in the US lost a parent to a drug overdose or gun violence in 2020

Recent research published in the medical journal JAMA reveals that deaths from drug overdoses and firearm-related injuries in the United...

Guns are killing more U.S. children. Shooting survivors can face lifelong challenges

National Public Radio – April 18 Gun injuries and mortality among young people are increasing in the U.S. Firearms are now the leading...