Franklin N. Cosey-Gay is director of the Violence Recovery Program at University of Chicago Medicine. His research has primarily focused on developing, implementing, and evaluating tested and effective school-based, family-based, and hospital-based interventions using a comprehensive and coordinated approach across multiple sectors and multiple social-ecological levels. Cosey-Gay’s work emphasizes emerging public health practice that goes beyond just looking at risk behaviors to researching upstream by examining root causes of violence, such as the physical, social, economic, and service environments, to address social inequities tied to class and race. Cosey-Gay is skilled in using qualitative methods to access and understand the context connected to the factors that increase risk and buffer residents from community violence.
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It sometimes feels like we can do nothing to stop gun violence. But easy access to mental health services, widely available trainings to identify individuals at risk, school c...