Lehigh University Student Newspaper Interviews Dr. Jessica Beard about NIH Grant That Will Examine Racial and Spatial Disparities in Harmful News Media Reporting on Community Firearm Violence

The Brown and White, Lehigh University’s student newspaper, interviewed 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, about the two-year, $450,000 grant, “Examining Racial and Spatial Disparities in Harmful News Media Reporting on Community Firearm Violence,” that she received from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), of the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Beard is the principal investigator on the grant. Jennifer Midberry, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication at Lehigh University, is a co-investigator.