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    Free Gun Violence Prevention Course Launches To Educate Young Activists

    Researchers want new activists to lean on decades of public health research when engaging in work with policymakers and candidates seeking elective office.
    by Brakkton Booker May 13, 2019 3 minutes
    Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have launched a free online gun violence prevention course.

    Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are hoping to capitalize on the student-led gun safety movement by offering a free online course, which begins Monday, to teach the academic research and strategies they say are the best weapon to curb gun violence.

    Gun violence experts put the course together after hundreds of thousands of people — many of them students — participated in March For Our Lives last year, calling for tighter gun laws.

    "Following the shooting in Parkland

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