Firearms injury. Professor David Studdert on mass shootings, health law and changing careers

Injury Prevention Podcast

In the second podcast of a series about the papers that helped shape a career in Injury Prevention, Professor Rod McClure talks to Professor David Studdert, expert in health law and empirical legal research from the Stanford Law School and Stanford University School of Medicine, USA, whose latest research career focus on the burden of injuries and deaths from firearms, especially in the wake of mass shootings. Find the Injury Prevention podcast on the journal website (injuryprevention.bmj.com) as well as on your preferred App every first Thursday of the month. More about the papers mentioned in this podcast below: (2017) “Handgun Acquisitions in California After Two Mass Shootings” - https://law.stanford.edu/publications/handgun-acquisitions-in-california-after-two-mass-shootings/ (2010) "Relationship between vehicle emissions laws and incidence of suicide by motor vehicle exhaust gas in Australia, 2001-06: an ecological analysis" - https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000210

(1991) "Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients — Results of the Harvard Medical Practice Study I" - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199102073240604.