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Dr. Jessica Beard Joins WURD Radio for Conversation about New NIH Grant That Will Examine Racial and Spatial Disparities in Harmful News Media Reporting on Community Firearm Violence

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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, joined WURD Radio for a conversation about the new two-year, $450,000 grant, “Examining Racial and Spatial Disparities in Harmful News Media Reporting on Community Firearm Violence,” that she received from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Beard is the principal investigator on the grant, which builds on previous research that was also a topic of discussion during her interview with WURD.