EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: Noon-1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30 (recording will be made available)

EVENT: “Back to School: The Research Behind School Safety Strategies”

Experts from the University of Michigan School of Public Health, Michigan Medicine and the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention will discuss a topic that concerns many educators, policymakers, parents, students and communities: keeping campuses safe and secure.

The discussion is open to the public and will touch on strategies and research behind firearm and school violence prevention, school safety plans, tools available to support violence prevention and more.

Panelists include: Cynthia Ewell Foster, clinical associate professor, Department of Psychiatry and Rackham Graduate School and director of the community engagement core at the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention; Justin Heinze, associate professor of health behavior and health equity at the School of Public Health and director of the National Center for School Safety based at U-M; and Hsing-Fang Hsieh, research assistant professor and co-director of the education and training core at the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention.

INFORMATION: Livestream available on multiple social media channels. Experts will answer selected audience questions. No registration required. A recording will be available after the event on the Michigan Medicine YouTube page.