BU researcher receives award to study factors associated with non-fatal firearm injury

(Boston University School of Medicine) Bindu Kalesan, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), is the recipient of a three-year, $693,695 award from the US Department of Justice to study 'racial and ethnic differences in non-fatal firearm injuries using a spatiotemporal approach.' The goal is to understand the differences in risk factors associated with gun injuries in different regions of the country in order to tailor efforts to specific places to reduce them.

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