Near daily coverage of another shooting event has everyone asking: “What can be done?” The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research will bring together an emerging group of researchers, advocates, and community leaders working to understand and stem gun violence, and sharing new research and perspectives to inform policy and programs to increase public safety.
Join us virtually on Monday, February 13, for a discussion with some of the voices leading this important work. We’ll hear from researchers working to build the evidence base to bring a better understanding to this complex issue and its perspectives in different communities. We will also engage with community leaders with frontline views of programs and policies that show promise in stemming the rising tide of violence.
Honored Speaker: California Attorney General Rob Bonta shares his vision for how policy can make a difference in the state.
Panelists and speakers include:
- Joan Asarnow, Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Kerith Conron, Research Director, Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
- Christian Heyne, Vice President of Policy, Brady
- Christopher Knoepke, Assistant Professor, Research, University of Colorado Denver – Anschutz Medical Campus
- Brian Malte, Executive Director, Hope and Heal Fund
- Mark A. Peterson, Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
- Jesenia Pizarro, Editor, Homicide Studies, and Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University
- Fernando Rejón, Executive Director, Urban Peace Institute
- Refujio “Cuco” Rodriguez, Chief Equity and Program Officer, Hope and Heal Fund
- Michael Rodriguez, Director, The California Alliance of Schools and Programs of Public Health
- George Tita, Professor, Criminology, Law, and Society, UC Irvine
- Andrea Welsing, Executive Director, Los Angeles County Office of Violence Prevention
...and more to be announced!
UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Director Ninez A. Ponce will provide the opening and closing remarks and moderate the event.
A student session will follow the symposium from 3:15–4:30 p.m. Registration and additional information for the student session to come.
The E.R. Brown Symposium, named after UCLA CHPR founder E. Richard "Rick" Brown, is an annual event that honors the life of Rick Brown, who spent his life advocating strongly for a health-care-for-all system that would ensure health services for every Californian.
