What We're Learning

Simple advocacy messages and short stories describing structural barriers and policy solutions to address these barriers could be useful in broader efforts to promote high-value policies with potential to improve population health.

Guns accrue different meanings to different gun owners and understanding these differences is crucial. Using six indicators, as well as gender, race, U.S.

Exploring the impacts of various types of messaging (narratives, simple propolicy, and a combination of the two), the authors found that messages could backfire and inadvertently lead to a diminished support from state legislators.

Youth poets of color are able to harness their “life as primary text” to successfully communicate how social policies must be enacted to reverse the type 2 diabetes epidemic that disproportionately affects their communities.

Understanding why gun owners own guns and what they mean to them, is essential for bridging the divide in public discourse around gun violence prevention policies.

There is no single monolith representing gun culture, there are a variety of subcultures that vary from place to place.