Sonali Rajan

this is amazing

Congratulations to @rsbeidas.bsky.social and her team for winning the $5000 Greenwald Award for research on firearm violence prevention for their paper, "Implementation of a Secure Firearm Storage Program in Pediatric Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Trial"! static1.squarespace.com/static/63924...

The very very best - so grateful for these few days in AZ with our brilliant and thoughtful and dedicated research community (and so many of my favorite people)! 💖 #2025firearmresearchconf

The trauma we inflict on children in this country is unconscionable.

Thank you (!) Robin -- appreciate you (and everything you do) so so much 💖

The Relentless School Nurse: When the Final School Bell Rings, Danger Rises for Our Kids Each day, as the final school bell rings and children stream out of buildings, their risk of gun injury spikes dramatically. This alarming reality was spotlighted in a new Boston University School …

Thank you to my friend & colleague Amy E. Dark DNP, MSN-PH, BA, RN for sharing the article featured in my most recent blog post! @sonalirajan.bsky.social thank you & your colleagues for all you do to support the safety of our nation's children & teens.

relentlessschoolnurse.com/2025/11/17/t...

I am just so incredibly proud of this conference and of our Society and, of course, our field. Cannot wait to see so many friends/colleagues next week in AZ --

www.firearmresearchsociety.org

ha! I owe you guys a new playlist, just saying...(also hi @brownellcassie.bsky.social)! ❤️

@everytown.bsky.social @sonalirajan.bsky.social
@meganranney.bsky.social
@bradyunited.org

Truly - for some joyful/fun internet content - join @snowdaylearninglab.org, @haenyyoon.bsky.social, and @lmv.bsky.social (my best buds and favorite people in the entire world) tonight!👇

These teachers survived school shootings. Now they’re offering help to their peers. “They don't have to be alone with those thoughts or those fears in the aftermath,” said Kiki Leyba, who was teaching at Columbine High School during the 1999 mass shooting.

Constantly in awe of my incredible friend @abbeyclements.bsky.social for her brilliance and kindness and leadership and for all the ways she shows up -- every single day -- for our teachers and kids and schools. @teachersunify.bsky.social

www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...

thank you my friend 🙏💖

“What we should be calling for is for our elected officials to use the tools that we know work to render these drills obsolete…. The burdens we are putting on our schools & our kids to prepare for the potential of this kind of violence is, frankly, unacceptable.” — @sonalirajan.bsky.social 🛟

The Relentless School Nurse: “Firearm Violence Prevention in Peril” – What School Nurses Must Do Now This post is grounded in a recent open-access article in the American Journal of Public Health titled “Firearm Violence Prevention in Peril: Protecting Our Progress in Public Health.” The article…

@sonalirajan.bsky.social sharing the compelling opinion piece you co-authored, recently published in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social via this blog post:
relentlessschoolnurse.com/2025/11/09/t...

How to Make Active Shooter Drills Less Traumatizing Research shows there are best practices for how to prepare students for active shooters in schools.

The discourse on active shooter drills, particularly in K-12 schools, is complex. Thank you to Time for this piece, for referencing our recent NASEM consensus study findings, and for including myself and many of my wonderful colleagues in this reporting:

time.com/7331491/less...

Afterschool Child Firearm Assaults: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis Firearms injuries are the leading cause of death among children in the United States.1 Most child firearm injuries arise from interpersonal assaults, not accidents or self-harm. Firearm violence surge...

Sharing our latest paper -- now out in AJPM Focus on the risk of child firearm assault during afterschool hours. This new work was led by the brilliant team at BU and also includes one of my wonderful doctoral students as a co-author as well --

www.ajpmfocus.org/article/S277...

How Do You Prepare Kids for a Possible School Shooting Without Traumatizing Them? As school shootings have grown more frequent, so too have active shooter drills, becoming routine in 95 percent of American schools

Thanks so much to @thetrace.org for their critical reporting. And for including me (and some of my favorite colleagues!) in this piece on active shooter drills:

www.thetrace.org/2025/10/scho...

@everytown.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social

Grateful for the opportunity to have been on an episode of the "Measure of Everyday Life" discussing our recent NASEM consensus study (including, what this work entailed and our recommendations/takeaways for K-12 schools across the nation): measureradio.libsyn.com/protecting-o...

a few of my favorites from #nokings in nyc yesterday! love our city so much - grateful to every person who showed up here and across the country!

ZERO arrests in NYC. #NoKings

hi you two!😍💖

New Everytown Report Confirms Arming Teachers is Not Effective for Preventing School Shootings Arming Teachers Can Heighten Risks of Unintentional Shootings, Escalate Violence, and Deepen Classroom Inequities with No Evidence of Protective Benefits, According to New Report Case Studies in Iowa,...

I feel so lucky to be working and collaborating with such a thoughtful and dedicated team @everytown.bsky.social. Our latest -- a new report on arming teachers -- out this morning:

everytownsupportfund.org/press/new-ev...

@teacherscollege.bsky.social @teachersunify.bsky.social

NYC just spectacular this week✨💖

Firearm Violence Prevention in Peril: A Call to Defend Our Public Safety Infrastructure | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 11 American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

So proud of our latest piece, now out in AJPH and co-authored with some of my favorite people:

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

We're just a few weeks (!) out from this year's National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms - I cannot wait to see so many colleagues/friends in AZ as we bring our research field together to collectively advance critical solutions for gun violence prevention --

Shooting his partner, then himself: How firearm access fuels domestic violence tragedies States with strong gun control laws had three times fewer incidents of domestic violence homicide-suicide, according to a report shared exclusively with The 19th.

So proud of my @everytown.bsky.social research team for releasing a new report today on domestic firearm homicide-suicides (and for @19thnews.org for powerful coverage of this difficult and needed work):

19thnews.org/2025/10/fire...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: SAFER: The Trump Administration’s Rollback of Gun Safety Progress. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: SAFER: The Trump Administration’s Rollback of Gun Safety Progress. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Looking forward to joining our colleagues at Brady, Giffords, and the Community Justice Action Fund at 12PM ET today to discuss the impacts of the Trump Administration’s policy and funding rollbacks on gun safety progress. Link to register/join is below --

giffords-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

Another Monday following a weekend of deadly and devastating shootings in this country. But the thing giving me hope are the many many people working so hard every single day across sectors and disciplines to prevent this violence. Grateful for every person in this work and in this fight.