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Dr. Jessica Beard Joins Trauma Beat Podcast for Episode about How Gun Violence Is Framed in the Media

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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, joined the Trauma Beat podcast for an episode about how gun violence is framed in the media. Dr. Beard discussed episodic crime reporting; a public health approach to reporting on gun violence; and some of her work – including a two-year $450,000 NIH grant she is the principal investigator on and research she led on the impact of episodic framing on recently firearm-injured people.