Association of Health Care Journalists Highlights Two New Studies Led by Dr. Jessica Beard That More Closely Examine How Reports of Community Firearm Violence Are Framed on Local Television News

The Association of Health Care Journalists highlighted two new studies published in Preventive Medicine Reports and BMC Public Health led by 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. The studies, which Dr. Beard was the corresponding author on, more closely examine how reports of community firearm violence are framed on local television news in Philadelphia and the downstream effects of that coverage on the general public’s perception of the issue.