People comfort one another outside Tops on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo on May 15, 2022, the day after a gunman murdered 10 people and injured three others at the grocery store.
Dante Oden, left, and Marcus Barnes outreach workers with two gun-violence prevention programs in Buffalo, chat Wednesday with Theresa Cox, who since 1979 has lived in the neighborhood that was the site last weekend of a racially motivated mass shooting.
“We need to be focused on prevention,” says Cassandra Crifasi, associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who specializes in gun violence research and prevention.
A formal connection between the Center for Urban Studies and the Community Health Equity Research Institute at UB is sharpening the focus on Buffalo’s built environment and its impact on the city’s social determinants of health.
Gun-violence prevention outreach workers, including Dennis Brown, left, and Dante Oden, have been visiting residents every day on the streets surrounding the site where 10 were killed and three wounded May 14 at a Buffalo supermarket.
People comfort one another outside Tops on Jefferson Avenue in Buffalo on May 15, 2022, the day after a gunman murdered 10 people and injured three others at the grocery store.
Dante Oden, left, and Marcus Barnes outreach workers with two gun-violence prevention programs in Buffalo, chat Wednesday with Theresa Cox, who since 1979 has lived in the neighborhood that was the site last weekend of a racially motivated mass shooting.
“We need to be focused on prevention,” says Cassandra Crifasi, associate professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who specializes in gun violence research and prevention.
Gun-violence prevention outreach workers, including Dennis Brown, left, and Dante Oden, have been visiting residents every day on the streets surrounding the site where 10 were killed and three wounded May 14 at a Buffalo supermarket.
