Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA

NINR’s 40-year legacy is foundational, leading nursing research to inform practice & policy to optimize health for all. I’m honored to moderate a session on prevention & health promotion at this week's symposium. At IPS, nursing research is vital to our mission to end health inequities: IPSNow.org.

Contextualizing Chicago's Enormous Drop in Shootings When was the last time Chicago had this few shootings?

The 1,264 people shot in Chicago through August 30 this year signifies far, far too many lives impacted by gun violence, but that figure is down 37 percent through this point last year and down nearly 60 percent from this point in 2021.

Chuka Emezue: Raising sons in the age of digital masculinity Behind Father’s Day lies a silent crisis: boys navigating a minefield where messaging around masculinity promotes dominance over empathy,

Speaking of small joys, my op-ed in the @chicagotribune.com out today commemorates Father’s Day and raising boys in an age of digital masculinity.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/15/o...

Gun Violence by the Numbers in 2024 As firearm sales have fallen, so have deaths and mass shootings. Trace reporter Chip Brownlee breaks down this year’s gun violence trends.

Hoping some of these hard-won gains in gun violence prevention are sustained in 2025. Really, hoping. Gun Violence by the Numbers in 2024 👇 www.thetrace.org/2024/12/data...

SCOTUS’s VanDerStok Case Isn’t Just About Ghost Guns The U.S Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on October 8 to determine whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives overstepped in effectively outlawing certain kits used to make…

NEW: The Supreme Court upheld a Biden-era regulation requiring sellers of “ready to build” ghost gun kits to add serial numbers to some parts and conduct background checks on prospective buyers. In October, we explained the stakes of the case:

NEW: The Supreme Court just upheld ATF’s critical ghost gun rule 👏👏👏

They ruled that ghost gun kits are legally firearms, meaning they must have serial numbers and can only be sold by licensed sellers after a background check.

This is a BIG win for public safety.

The removal of the Surgeon General’s gun violence advisory from HHS is unconscionable. Gun violence IS a public health crisis. Silencing science will cost lives—especially those of our children. Public health above politics! #GunViolenceIsAPublicHealthIssue #PH

Reporter's notebook: 8 theories why fentanyl deaths are plummeting Some 30,000 fewer people are dying every year in the U.S. from fentanyl and other street drugs. This shift has stunned addiction experts, reversing decades of rising death.

Some 30,000 fewer people are dying every year in the U.S. from fentanyl and other street drugs. This shift has stunned addiction experts, reversing decades of rising death.

House Passes Bill to Improve Public Safety, Reduce Youth Violence The House today passed legislation to make gun violence prevention and public safety efforts more accessible to parents and legal guardians of students.

“Between raising the minimum age to purchase firearms to improve safe storage, we’re taking a multi-prong approach to addressing gun violence in our communities and schools.” Press release:

How to Reduce Gun Deaths? One Group Teaches Young People How to Use Them. An organization in Chicago is trying to apply a strategy used for fighting drug addiction to reduce gun violence.

To Make Guns Less Dangerous, One Group Teaches Young People How to Use Them www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

WAY TO GO Librarians as data revolutionaries!

This is not about establishing new funding priority guidelines via transitions between administrations- it is about dismantling the entire enterprise of traditional rational approaches to informed science & policy. We either read it & weep or ....

Illinois scientist, medical personnel, patients alarmed about NIH Funding Freeze/ Call your U.S. Senators

Illinois
Senator Richard Durbin 202-224-2152
Senator Tammy Duckworth 202-224-2854

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The new administration took down the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention website: www.whitehouse.gov/ogvp/

Shocking findings, but great use of geospatial data. Tuning in!

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They Lost Loved Ones to Guns. They’re Sharing Their Stories So Things Will Be Different. Seven gun violence survivors, seven stories of Chicago. How might their experiences drive change?

In “Seven Stories,” gun violence survivors aren’t the subjects of crime coverage. They’re the writers, documenting their own experiences — and they tell the story of gun violence in a different way.

I am also reading another favorite - this time, Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘We Are What We Pretend To Be’ - a twin novella, described as bookends of his first and last books, a reliably humorist collection from one of my best influences - when I dare to dabble in prose and poetry!

Let Us Descend

One of my favorite readings for the winter explores Jesymn Ward’s latest, about an enslaved teenager drawing upon the strength of family bonds and elemental spirits to find her own path to resilience. 4columns.org/phillips-jul...

Young Black men face 24x higher risks of firearm injuries & homicides. Enter the BrotherlyACT app: Life skills coaching, AI talk therapy, and in-app safety planning. We discuss its usability testing. TLDR: Usability score was high. More here: formative.jmir.org/2024/1/e60918/ #mHealth