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Pop and PlayPop Off: Offering Hope about Gun Violence Research with Sonali RajanGun Violence research and hope might not usually sound like they go together, but this week’s special Pop Off guest, Teachers College Professor Sonali Rajan, is here to share progress made in this often challenging field. Sonali Rajan is Professor of Health Promotion and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health.Organizations Sonali mentioned in this episode:Research Society for the Prevention of Fireaarm-Related HarmsTeachers UnifyCh...2025-01-0719 min
Back to School ShootingsEpisode 7: Conversation with Dr. Sonali Rajan on Using Data to Reduce Gun Violence at SchoolsHost: David RiedmanGuest: Sonali Rajan, Ed.D., M.S., Associate Professor, Department of Health Studies & Applied Educational Psychology at Columbia University & President of the Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related HarmsResearch Paper: Protocol for a nationwide case-control study of firearm violence prevention tactics and policies in K-12 schoolsResearch Methods: Authors created a nationally representative dataset of schools that experienced intentional gunfire on the campus during school hours since 2015 using the K-12 School Shooting Database. Matched control schools will be randomly selected from the US Department of Education's national database...2024-07-0847 min
Red, Blue, and BradyChildhood Trauma, Gun Violence, and the Fight for Safe SpacesSend us a textWhat if we told you that the key to preventing gun violence in youth lies not just in legislation, but also in acknowledging and addressing the root causes of trauma? Kelly and JJ sit down with Dr. Sonali Rajan , President of the Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms (and also, as you'll learn, about a million other things!). Our conversation orbits around the interconnection between a child's environment, school health, and gun violence, with Dr. Rajan casting light on the findings from the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System and the ass...2023-12-1340 minPop and PlayDetectives and Columbo with Sonali Rajan and Mark and Arlo MaynardOh don’t mind Haeny and Nathan, they just want to hang around in your podcast feed and ask a couple of questions, if it’s no trouble. Just one more thing… did you listen to this week’s episode of Pop and Play yet? Because we’re talking detectives and Columbo! Haeny and Nathan bring on guests Mark and Arlo Maynard who have a parent and child connection through this unassuming TV detective - and they’re not the only ones because returning guest Professor Sonali Rajan joins to talk about how Columbo has figured into parenting in her family a...2023-04-1137 min
Science VsMass Shootings: How Do We Stop Them?Buffalo. Uvalde. Highland Park. These mass shootings keep happening. One side says the problem is the guns, and the other side says the problem is the people. Who’s right? And what policies might actually work to stop mass shootings? We talk to NSSF spokesperson Mark Oliva, gun control researcher Prof. Mark Gius, criminologist Dr. Jillian Peterson, and epidemiologist Dr. Veronica Pear. CN: This episode discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis, in the U.S. you can call or text 988 to reach the government’s suicide and c...2022-10-1444 minPop and PlayDangerous Play and the Block 19 Pistol (Crossover with (Re)search for Solutions)Haeny and Nathan are joined by friend of the show and colleague Lalitha Vasudevan, as well as (Re)Search for Solutions host Sonali Rajan for a special crossover episode. This episode covers a more serious topic as it discusses the troubling implications of the "Block 19" - a gun made to be adorned with LEGOs, along with the complex intersection between play and violence. Visit the episode page for transcripts and to learn more about what was discussed in this episode.Our music is selections from “Leafeaters” by Podington Bear, Licensed under CC (BY-NC) 3.0.Check...2022-06-0222 min
Le LapinConcealed CarryThis cited writing was originally published on Medium.com and republished on The Muck Rack in 2020. I closed both profiles to maintain this substack. The rise of gun violence in the United States stands out among Western, developed nations. While the issue at hand has been well described, conclusive decisions and their actions have remained a focus in debates. The average number of people who died during 2001 to 2008 has doubled during 2009 to 2018 (John R Lott Jr.). This statistic does not take into account gang fights and suicides. Without a doubt the issue of mortal violence...2022-05-2805 min
Media and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 6: Guns and the Criminal (In)Justice SystemEpisode 6 of (Re)Search for Solutions takes a hard look at how in some cases, communities, especially communities of color, are harmed by efforts claiming to be in service of stopping gun violence. We look at one of the most well-known examples of discriminatory policing, “Stop and Frisk,” and how these types of ineffective practices become legitimized.
Sonali interviews Ekow Yankah, a Professor at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, and Sarah Lustbader, a public defender in New York City, about criminal law and policing as they relate to gun violence. Iesha Sekou, the CEO and founder of Stre...2021-05-1029 min
(Re)Search for SolutionsEpisode 6: Guns and the Criminal (In)Justice SystemEpisode 6 of (Re)Search for Solutions takes a hard look at how in some cases, communities, especially communities of color, are harmed by efforts claiming to be in service of stopping gun violence. We look at one of the most well-known examples of discriminatory policing, “Stop and Frisk,” and how these types of ineffective practices become legitimized. Sonali interviews Ekow Yankah, a Professor at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, and Sarah Lustbader, a public defender in New York City, about criminal law and policing as they relate to gun violence. Iesha Sekou, the CEO a...2021-05-1029 min
After WordsJohn Woodrow Cox, "Children Under Fire: An American Crisis"Washington Post staff writer John Woodrow Cox reports on the effects of gun violence on children in America. He’s interviewed by Teachers College, Columbia University health education associate professor Sonali Rajan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2021-04-2556 min
The reltoK ShowThe 'Reason to Believe' with Sonali ShahFaber Castell is a brand I grew up with, as a kid. Few things mattered in those years for a kid like me; but the brand of crayons and pencils where a matter of snob value - especially when 99% of the class couldn't pronounce the words right, Faber-Castell. A walk down memory lane, recollecting how mom used to cut pencils in half for me because I always lost them by the dozens to talking about how marketing to kids requires nothing but creating trust with the customers. The challenge being - kids aren't the only customers!About...2021-04-1245 minMedia and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 5: Security Studies And GunsWhat if we considered gun violence as an issue of national security? Increasingly, terrorist groups, and specifically white supremacist extremist terrorists, have been turning to guns as instruments of terror for attacks in the United States.
Sonali sits down with Lou Klarevas, political scientist and author of Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings, to talk about the intersection of gun violence and security studies. They discuss how and why most deadly terrorist attacks in the United States are now perpetrated using firearms. And she talks with Colin Clarke, a Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center about the rise...2020-10-0924 min(Re)Search for SolutionsEpisode 5: Security Studies and GunsWhat if we considered gun violence as an issue of national security? Increasingly, terrorist groups, and specifically white supremacist extremist terrorists, have been turning to guns as instruments of terror for attacks in the United States.Sonali sits down with Lou Klarevas, political scientist and author of Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings, to talk about the intersection of gun violence and security studies. They discuss how and why most deadly terrorist attacks in the United States are now perpetrated using firearms. And she talks with Colin Clarke, a Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center...2020-10-0924 min(Re)Search for SolutionsEpisode 4: This Is Our Lane (Re-release)In 2018, the NRA tweeted, “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane,” in response to a paper released by the American College of Physicians (ACP) about Reducing Firearm Injuries and Death in the United States. Soon after, medical professionals from around the country responded with their stories using the hashtag #ThisIsOurLane. Episode 4 of (Re)Search for Solutions reflects on the crucial role emergency medicine physicians, who are on the front lines of responding to firearm injuries, play in developing solutions. We spoke with Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and faculty at Brown...2020-10-0828 min(Re)Search for SolutionsEpisode 3: Firearm Suicide Prevention (Re-release)In Episode 3 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we discuss firearm suicide prevention. Firearm suicides make up about two-thirds of deaths by firearms, but suicide is sometimes downplayed in conversations about preventing gun violence. Sonali interviews Kerry Keyes, psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia University, about her research on gun violence and suicide. Kerry also shares how suicide has affected her and her family. Sonali also talks with Doreen Marshall, Vice President of Programs at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention [AFSP] about their efforts to prevent firearm suicide and to support survivors of suicide loss. Visit AFSP.org for m...2020-10-0724 min(Re)Search for SolutionsEpisode 2: Adverse Childhood Experiences and School Safety (Re-release)In Episode 2 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we talk about adverse childhood experiences, or “ACEs,” and how they can help us think more broadly about the impacts of gun violence and how to prevent it. We focus on the implications for school safety practices in particular.Lalitha Vasudevan interviews our usual host, Sonali Rajan, Professor at Teachers College and the Mailman School of Public Health, about her work on how researchers can think of gun violence as an “adverse childhood experience.” Sonali talks with Danielle Kassow from Trauma Free NYC about ACEs and how schools can take a “traum...2020-10-0621 min(Re)Search for SolutionsEpisode 1: Cleaning & Greening (Re-release)Episode 1 of (Re)Search for Solutions discusses greening - the conversion of an overgrown vacant lot to a small, grass-covered community space - as a non-policy-based solution to gun violence. We interviewed Professor Charlie Branas, Chairman of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and Keith Green, Director of the Philadelphia LandCare Program at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), about their research into the effects of greening in Philadelphia.
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Production Team: Azsaneé Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsaneé Truss with the help of the (Re)Se...2020-10-0519 min
Media and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 4: This is Our LaneIn 2018, the NRA tweeted, “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane,” in response to a paper released by the American College of Physicians (ACP) about Reducing Firearm Injuries and Death in the United States. Soon after, medical professionals from around the country responded with their stories using the hashtag #ThisIsOurLane.
Episode 4 of (Re)Search for Solutions reflects on the crucial role emergency medicine physicians, who are on the front lines of responding to firearm injuries, play in developing solutions.
We spoke with Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and faculty at Brown University and co-founder of the...2020-08-2128 min
(Re)Search for SolutionsEpisode 4: This is Our LaneIn 2018, the NRA tweeted, “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane,” in response to a paper released by the American College of Physicians (ACP) about Reducing Firearm Injuries and Death in the United States. Soon after, medical professionals from around the country responded with their stories using the hashtag #ThisIsOurLane.
Episode 4 of (Re)Search for Solutions reflects on the crucial role emergency medicine physicians, who are on the front lines of responding to firearm injuries, play in developing solutions.
We spoke with Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and faculty at Brown University and co-founder of the...2020-08-2128 minMedia and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 3: Firearm Suicide PreventionIn Episode 3 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we discuss firearm suicide prevention. Firearm suicides make up about two-thirds of deaths by firearms, but suicide is sometimes downplayed in conversations about preventing gun violence.
Sonali interviews Kerry Keyes, psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia University, about her research on gun violence and suicide. Kerry also shares how suicide has affected her and her family. Sonali also talks with Doreen Marshall, Vice President of Programs at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention [AFSP] about their efforts to prevent firearm suicide and to support survivors of suicide loss. Visit AFSP.org for more resources and...2020-06-1724 min(Re)Search for SolutionsEpisode 3: Firearm Suicide PreventionIn Episode 3 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we discuss firearm suicide prevention. Firearm suicides make up about two-thirds of deaths by firearms, but suicide is sometimes downplayed in conversations about preventing gun violence.
Sonali interviews Kerry Keyes, psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia University, about her research on gun violence and suicide. Kerry also shares how suicide has affected her and her family. Sonali also talks with Doreen Marshall, Vice President of Programs at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention [AFSP] about their efforts to prevent firearm suicide and to support survivors of suicide loss. Visit AFSP.org for more resources and...2020-06-1724 min
School Health Shout-outImplementation of Mental Health Policies & Practices in SchoolsThis video reviews "The Implementation of Mental Health Policies and Practices in Schools: An Examination of School and State Factors" published in the April 2019 issue of The Journal of School Health, authored by Dr. Laura Guerra, Dr. Sonali Rajan, and Dr. Katherine Roberts, all of Columbia University. Schools & states have major impacts on how well school health policies and practices are implemented. This article explores what states, districts, and schools can do to support implementation. The Journal of School Health is published by the American School Health Association. For more information, or to join...2020-05-1005 minMedia and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 2: Adverse Childhood Experiences and School SafetyIn Episode 2 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we talk about adverse childhood experiences, or “ACEs,” and how they can help us think more broadly about the impacts of gun violence and how to prevent it. We focus on the implications for school safety practices in particular.
Lalitha Vasudevan interviews our usual host, Sonali Rajan, Professor at Teachers College and the Mailman School of Public Health, about her work on how researchers can think of gun violence as an “adverse childhood experience.” Sonali talks with Danielle Kassow from Trauma Free NYC about ACEs and how schools can take a “trauma informed” approach to...2020-04-0721 min(Re)Search for SolutionsEpisode 2: Adverse Childhood Experiences and School SafetyIn Episode 2 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we talk about adverse childhood experiences, or “ACEs,” and how they can help us think more broadly about the impacts of gun violence and how to prevent it. We focus on the implications for school safety practices in particular.
Lalitha Vasudevan interviews our usual host, Sonali Rajan, Professor at Teachers College and the Mailman School of Public Health, about her work on how researchers can think of gun violence as an “adverse childhood experience.” Sonali talks with Danielle Kassow from Trauma Free NYC about ACEs and how schools can take a “trauma informed” approach to...2020-04-0721 min
Media and Social Change Podcast(Re)Search For Solutions Episode 1: Cleaning And GreeningEpisode 1 of (Re)Search for Solutions discusses greening - the conversion of an overgrown vacant lot to a small, grass-covered community space - as a non-policy-based solution to gun violence. We interviewed Professor Charlie Branas, Chairman of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and Keith Green, Director of the Philadelphia LandCare Program at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), about their research into the effects of greening in Philadelphia.
Talk to us on Twitter using the hashtag #R4S!
Production Team: Azsanee Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsanee Truss with the help of the (Re...2019-12-0919 min
(Re)Search for SolutionsEpisode 1: Cleaning And GreeningEpisode 1 of (Re)Search for Solutions discusses greening - the conversion of an overgrown vacant lot to a small, grass-covered community space - as a non-policy-based solution to gun violence. We interviewed Professor Charlie Branas, Chairman of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and Keith Green, Director of the Philadelphia LandCare Program at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), about their research into the effects of greening in Philadelphia.
Talk to us on Twitter using the hashtag #R4S!
Production Team: Azsanee Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsanee Truss with the help of the (Re...2019-12-0919 min
Media and Social Change PodcastIntroducing: (Re)Search For Solutions(Re)Search for Solutions is a podcast where we cover research about pressing issues in our world today. This season of (Re)Search for Solutions is a limited series focusing on unexpected and creative ways that researchers are looking at solutions to the persistence of gun violence. Subscribe to the (Re)Search for Solutions podcast feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, & Google Play!
Talk to us on Twitter using the hashtag #R4S!
Production Team: Azsanee Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsanee Truss with the help of the Research for Solutions team
Music: “Research Area” by Poit...2019-12-0204 min
(Re)Search for SolutionsIntroducing: (Re)Search For Solutions(Re)Search for Solutions is a podcast where we cover research about pressing issues in our world today. This season of (Re)Search for Solutions is a limited series focusing on unexpected and creative ways that researchers are looking at solutions to the persistence of gun violence. Subscribe to the (Re)Search for Solutions podcast feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, & Google Play!
Talk to us on Twitter using the hashtag #R4S!
Production Team: Azsanee Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsanee Truss with the help of the Research for Solutions team
Music: “Research Area” by Poit...2019-12-0204 minMedia and Social Change PodcastSeason 2, Episode 2 - Preventing Gun Violence and Understanding Gun ReformA wide-ranging conversation on the phenomenon of firearm use and gun reform legislation, recommendations on policy and areas in need of further research with MASCLab Director and Professor of Technology and Education, Lalitha Vasudevan, Louis Klarevas - an expert on the study of mass shootings and homeland security, and author of the recently published book Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings and Sonali Rajan, Assistant Professor of Health Education at Teachers College, Columbia, and an expert on adolescent risk behaviors who studies school climate, aggression and violence prevention in schools, and socio-emotional wellbeing among adolescents.2019-01-1438 min