Confronting gun violence through medicine and mental health

Buffalo Toronto Public Media (formerly WBFO) broadcast a full-hour episode of the What’s Next podcast about the Remembrance Conference, hosted by the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB on June 6-8 and co-sponsored by the School of Social Work. Patricia Logan-Greene, associate professor and associate dean for academic affairs, joined Allison Brashear, vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School, and David Milling, senior associate dean for medical education, on the show.

The Remembrance Conference invites health care students, faculty and professionals to take action on the epidemic of firearm violence. Logan-Greene, who co-leads the national Grand Challenge to Prevent Gun Violence, will deliver a keynote at the conference.

“Instead of thinking of firearm violence in the United States as a criminal justice problem, where we arrest and incarcerate our way out of it—which I don’t think anybody would say is working at the moment—we [must] start to think about it as a public health problem because it affects our health and our country’s health so much, in ways that have only begun to be documented,” she told BTPM.