Emily Rothman, Gun Violence Research.
Dr. Rothman is an Associate Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health with secondary appointments at the Boston University School of Medicine in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine. She is also a visiting scientist at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. Dr. Rothman’s areas of research expertise are intimate partner and sexual violence, dating abuse, youth violence, and human trafficking. She conducts research on firearms in the context of these topics, including gun possession among batterer intervention program enrollees, batterers’ use of firearms to threaten intimate partners, and non-strange femicide. She has also lead community-based participatory research to reduce youth violence. She is presently funded by a federal grant in partnership with the Boston Public Health Commission to evaluate a community-based homicide reduction initiative in a neighborhood of Boston, a co-investigator on a federally-funded research study on state-level firearm policies and race-specific homicide rates, and is engaged in an innovative investigation into firearms and dating abuse victimization.
Firearm Ownership Closely Tied to Suicide Rates
States with higher estimated levels of gun ownership had higher incidents of gun-related suicides, with firearm ownership alone explaining 71 percent of the variation in state-level gun suicide rates for males and 49 percent for females, a new study by School of Public Health researchers shows.
The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, covers 33 years, from 1981 to 2013, and is the most comprehensive analysis of the association between gun ownership and gender-specific suicides rates among the 50 US states.
“Our study adds to the consistent finding that among both males and females, increased prevalence of firearms is clearly associated with an increase in the firearm-specific suicide rate,” said Michael Siegel, lead author and professor of community health sciences. “The magnitude of this relationship is substantial and warrants attention from policy-makers.”
Co-author Emily Rothman, associate professor of community health sciences, added, “Given that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US, and firearm-related deaths and injuries are extraordinarily costly, reducing firearm-related self-injury and suicide is a public health imperative.”
Additional research:
Collins T, Greenberg R, Siegel M, Xuan Z, Rothman EF, Cronin SW, Hemenway D. State Firearm Laws and Interstate Transfer of Guns in the USA, 2006-2016. J Urban Health. 2018 Apr 18. PMID: 29671188. READ AT: PubMed
Díez C, Kurland RP, Rothman EF, Bair-Merritt M, Fleegler E, Xuan Z, Galea S, Ross CS, Kalesan B, Goss KA, Siegel M. State Intimate Partner Violence-Related Firearm Laws and Intimate Partner Homicide Rates in the United States, 1991 to 2015. Ann Intern Med. 2017 Oct 17; 167(8):536-543. PMID: 28975202. READ AT: PubMed
Rothman EF, Stoklosa H, Baldwin SB, Chisolm-Straker M, Kato Price R, Atkinson HG. Public Health Research Priorities to Address US Human Trafficking. Am J Public Health. 2017 Jul; 107(7):1045-1047. PMID: 28590857. READ AT: PubMed
Chen FR, Rothman EF, Jaffee SR. Early Puberty, Friendship Group Characteristics, and Dating Abuse in US Girls. Pediatrics. 2017 May 08. PMID: 28562261. READ AT: PubMed
Kailas M, Lu HMS, Rothman EF, Safer JD. PREVALENCE AND TYPES OF GENDER-AFFIRMING SURGERY AMONG A SAMPLE OF TRANSGENDER ENDOCRINOLOGY PATIENTS PRIOR TO STATE EXPANSION OF INSURANCE COVERAGE. Endocr Pract. 2017 Jul; 23(7):780-786. PMID: 28448757. READ AT: PubMed
Rothman EF, Paruk J, Espensen A, Temple JR, Adams K. A Qualitative Study of What US Parents Say and Do When Their Young Children See Pornography. Acad Pediatr. 2017 Apr 24. PMID: 28450081. READ AT: PubMed
Penti B, Tran H, Timmons J, Rothman EF, Wilkinson J. Physicians’ Experiences with Male Patients Who Perpetrate Intimate Partner Violence. J Am Board Fam Med. 2017 Mar-Apr; 30(2):239-247. PMID: 28379831. READ AT: PubMed
Exner-Cortens D, Eckenrode J, Bunge J, Rothman E. Revictimization After Adolescent Dating Violence in a Matched, National Sample of Youth. J Adolesc Health. 2017 Feb; 60(2):176-183. PMID: 28109451. READ AT: PubMed
Choi HJ, Elmquist J, Shorey RC, Rothman EF, Stuart GL, Temple JR. Stability of alcohol use and teen dating violence for female youth: A latent transition analysis. Drug Alcohol Rev. 2017 Jan; 36(1):80-87. PMID: 28109181. READ AT: PubMed
Rothman EF. Should US Physicians Support the Decriminalization of Commercial Sex? AMA J Ethics. 2017 Jan 01; 19(1):110-121. PMID: 28107163. READ AT: PubMed
Rothman EF, Heeren T, Winter M, Dorfman D, Baughman A, Stuart G. Collecting Self-Reported Data on Dating Abuse Perpetration From a Sample of Primarily Black and Hispanic, Urban-Residing, Young Adults: A Comparison of Timeline Followback Interview and Interactive Voice Response Methods. J Interpers Violence. 2016 Dec 04. PMID: 27920359. READ AT: PubMed
Stoklosa H, Dawson M, Williams-Oni F, Rothman EF. A review of U.S. healthcare institution protocols for the identification and treatment of victims of human trafficking. Journal of Human Trafficking. 2016. READ AT: Custom