Johnson Foundation’s $3M Grant Fuels Crucial Gun Violence Study
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UC Davis Health has received a three-year, $3 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the causes and potential solutions to gun violence in Black and Brown communities. The Black & Brown Collective, a multidisciplinary network co-founded by Shani Buggs, will conduct the research. The project will support the success of scholars from racially and ethnically marginalized backgrounds, develop programs to support health equity, and work to reverse the negative impacts of racism and violence on these communities.
UC Davis Health Receives $3 Million Grant for Gun Violence Research
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has granted UC Davis Health a $3 million, three-year award. This renowned grant will support research into gun violence causes, complexities, and solutions in Black and Brown communities disproportionately affected.
The award will aid studies led by the Black & Brown Collective, a multidisciplinary network co-founded by Shani Buggs, the principal investigator for the award. Buggs is a health and public policy scholar in the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program and an assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Addressing the Public Health Crisis of Gun Violence
Gun violence, now recognized as a significant public health crisis in the United States, has particularly affected predominantly Black and Brown communities. The grant will support research projects by community violence prevention scholars from those marginalized groups that have been underrepresented and under-resourced in research funding.
Buggs stated research benefits communities when conducted by a diverse collective of cross-disciplinary researchers and community partners. This approach ensures research methodologies are culturally appropriate and understand historical and cultural contexts vital for addressing inequities and power dynamics.
Research is stronger and more beneficial to the communities it serves when it is conducted and disseminated by a diverse collective of cross-disciplinary researchers and community partners.”—Shani Buggs
Emerging Scholars in Violence Prevention
The Black & Brown Collective will also nurture the next generation of underrepresented violence prevention scholars, involving them with collective members and promoting their roles as thought leaders. The collective will focus on creating an equitable research framework, developing a scholar network, delivering related grants, and providing research support over the next three years.
Joseph Richardson, Jr, the MPower Professor of African-American Studies at the University of Maryland and a recent inductee into the National Academy of Medicine, is the co-leader of the award. Richardson is also the co-director of PROGRESS, a gun violence research initiative based in Washington DC.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest US philanthropy focused solely on health, aligns with its goal of building a national Culture of Health through this grant to UC Davis.
For more details, visit UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program’s website: https://health.ucdavis.edu/vprp/.
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