About this episode

Kerri Raissian discusses her journey and research on firearm injury prevention.

For the first time on the WTTA podcast, we’re joined by a researcher, and not just any researcher. Michael Sodini and Kevin Berry sit down with Kerri Raissian, Senior Research Scientist at the Yale School of Public Health’s Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative. Kerri shares her path from growing up on a cattle farm in Texas, to working in a district attorney’s office and running one of the largest domestic violence shelters in the country, to becoming a researcher focused on what actually r...

People in this episode

Hosts: Michael Sodini, Kevin Berry

Guest: Kerri Raissian

Topics covered

• gun safety
• mental health
• research
• domestic violence
• public health

Keywords

• Yale
• gun owners
• harm reduction
• domestic violence
• public health research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale School of Public Health, Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative

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