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Dr. Jessica Beard Discusses Her Research on How Gun Violence Is Framed in the Media with Radio France Internationale

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Jessica H. Beard, MD, MPH, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery in the Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care and Director of Trauma Research at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, spoke with Radio France Internationale about how gun violence is framed in the media, including the difference between public health framing and episodic crime framing; research she led on the impact of episodic framing on recently firearm-injured people; and what a public health approach to gun violence could look like.