Join our expert panelists, Doctors Rebecca Cunningham, Patrick Carter and Marc Zimmerman, all professors at the University of Michigan who together lead a new effort to study the issue of children, teens and firearm-related injuries and deaths. Their program is called the FACTS Consortium, and FACTS is short for the Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens. It’s funded by the National Institutes of Health and includes researchers from across the country. Drs. Cunningham and Carter are both trained as emergency physicians, and Professor Zimmerman specializes in studying resilience and violence prevention among teens.
**Please note: These researchers are working to study and reduce child firearm injuries and deaths, while respecting gun ownership as an important part of the cultural fabric of the U.S.