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Private Guns: Public Health October 20, 2005 Keynote Speaker: David Hemenway, Ph.D. David Hemenway, Ph.D., director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center, will deliver the keynote address at the Indiana Partnership to Prevent Violent Injury and Death Annual Meeting on October 20, 2005. The injury center is the coordinating center for the National Violent Injury Statistics System whose goal is to help improve available data on suicide and homicide. Much of Dr. Hemenway’s research has been in the area of injury prevention. He has investigated issues concerning motor vehicle injuries, fires, falls and fractures, suicides, child abuse and product safety. Firearm injuries are a current focus of Dr. Hemenway’s research. In the United States, almost 80 people per day are killed with guns. Yet, comparatively little research has been directed toward understanding and reducing gun injuries. Dr. Hemenway is studying the effects of gun carrying; how guns are stored and whether training can improve storage practices; the external costs and benefits of gun ownership; the use of guns in self-defense; gun use among adolescents; guns on college campuses; the relationship between gun prevalence and homicide, suicide and unintentional gun deaths and the effects of changes in the legal drinking age on youth violence. Dr. Hemenway has numerous publications to his credit and writes articles with specific ideas for enlivening the teaching of economics.