New statewide report reveals significant impacts from firearm injury across Oregon

OHSU’s new Gun Violence Prevention Research Center issues inaugural report

By Erik Robinson October 20, 2022 Portland, Oregon

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Robin Wisner is a minister and city councilor in Maywood Park just east of the Portland city limits. (Courtesy of Wisner)

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Kathleen Carlson, Ph.D.

Kathleen Carlson, Ph.D., director of the new center and an associate professor in the OHSU-Portland State University School of Public Health, stands outside the OHSU Hospital emergency department on Marquam Hill in Portland on June 23, 2022. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)