Julie Ward
@julie-a-ward.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Medicine Health & Society + Public Policy @VanderbiltU. Public Health RN w/PhD from JHU. My views.
New research out today. We describe the injured people & the situational characteristics involved in shootings by police during mental or behavioral health involved policing responses in the US. …Almost 2500 shootings over a 6-yr period - all carefully reviewed (twice!) by my very hard working team.
Mental and behavioral health characteristics among individuals injuriously shot by police in the United States
Criminalization of people experiencing mental illness is systemic, but the conditions surrounding police use-of-force in such encounters are under-examined.To describe mental or behavioral health (...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
New research out today. We describe the injured people & the situational characteristics involved in shootings by police during mental or behavioral health involved policing responses in the US. …Almost 2500 shootings over a 6-yr period - all carefully reviewed (twice!) by my very hard working team.
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I have a list of things we can do to change this tempo of tragedy
The proposals are based on real data
They have had signals of efficacy
It may feel hopeless today but:
I refuse to give up.
Because - Our babies & our communities deserve better than a rolling litany of horrors.
The proposals are based on real data
They have had signals of efficacy
It may feel hopeless today but:
I refuse to give up.
Because - Our babies & our communities deserve better than a rolling litany of horrors.
BREAKING: Two children were killed and 17 people injured in a shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school, police said. The shooter is also dead.
Minnesota governor says a shooting has occurred at a Minneapolis school
Authorities say a shooting has erupted during the first week of classes at a Minneapolis Catholic school. There was no immediate information on any injuries. Gov.
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August 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I have a list of things we can do to change this tempo of tragedy
The proposals are based on real data
They have had signals of efficacy
It may feel hopeless today but:
I refuse to give up.
Because - Our babies & our communities deserve better than a rolling litany of horrors.
The proposals are based on real data
They have had signals of efficacy
It may feel hopeless today but:
I refuse to give up.
Because - Our babies & our communities deserve better than a rolling litany of horrors.
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This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
www.wilderness.org
June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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⏳ There is just over a week left to apply for our #postdoc in violence prevention research, with apps due June 15. Please send yours in or share the posting with a qualified applicant! cvp.ucdavis.edu/get-involved...
June 6, 2025 at 8:46 PM
⏳ There is just over a week left to apply for our #postdoc in violence prevention research, with apps due June 15. Please send yours in or share the posting with a qualified applicant! cvp.ucdavis.edu/get-involved...
Home from #SAVIR2025 and pleased to share that “Characteristics of Behavioral and Mental Health Involved Injurious Shootings by Police in the US” was recognized with the Early Career Outstanding Science Presentation award! #InjuryResearch #GVP #ScienceMatters 🛟
@thesavir.bsky.social
@thesavir.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Home from #SAVIR2025 and pleased to share that “Characteristics of Behavioral and Mental Health Involved Injurious Shootings by Police in the US” was recognized with the Early Career Outstanding Science Presentation award! #InjuryResearch #GVP #ScienceMatters 🛟
@thesavir.bsky.social
@thesavir.bsky.social
Really timely new research about the possible role of agency policy in preventing shooting-related harms, particularly in light of the current Barnes v. Felix SCOTUS case. It was great to collaborate with @shjarback-ccj.bsky.social on this one!
March 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Really timely new research about the possible role of agency policy in preventing shooting-related harms, particularly in light of the current Barnes v. Felix SCOTUS case. It was great to collaborate with @shjarback-ccj.bsky.social on this one!
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"When a civilization is limited to work that produces profit... we distance ourselves from the values of care and generosity—and the simple but profound belief that what happens to one of us affects all of us."
A marvelous piece by @annehelen.bsky.social.
A marvelous piece by @annehelen.bsky.social.
This is How We Fall Out of Love with the World
The Twilight of the American Passion Job
open.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"When a civilization is limited to work that produces profit... we distance ourselves from the values of care and generosity—and the simple but profound belief that what happens to one of us affects all of us."
A marvelous piece by @annehelen.bsky.social.
A marvelous piece by @annehelen.bsky.social.
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Study underscores the critical need to identify and develop effective public health + policing strategies aimed at reducing the number of young people shot by law enforcement each year. Read more: publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...
Study Finds More Than 300 Juveniles Were Shot by Police Between 2015 and 2020, One-Third of Them Fatally | Center for Gun Violence Solutions
Study thought to be the first national accounting of both juvenile injuries and deaths from shootings by police in U.S.
publichealth.jhu.edu
February 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Study underscores the critical need to identify and develop effective public health + policing strategies aimed at reducing the number of young people shot by law enforcement each year. Read more: publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...
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they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
February 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.
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Ditto to academics
If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Downloaded CDC Data And Where To Find It
Journalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...
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January 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Ditto to academics
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I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13
List of CDC information that appears to have been taken down so far:
1. CDC Atlas
2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
3. HRSA Target
4. Language removed for LGBT work
5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index
1. CDC Atlas
2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
3. HRSA Target
4. Language removed for LGBT work
5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index
January 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13
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Okay, this is pretty great. I didn’t realize how much friction it was to look up each phone number until this app had them ready to go, one after another. Plus it tells you how many other people used the app to call about the issue (14,700 on the federal funding freeze alone!)
Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.
5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
5calls.org
January 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Okay, this is pretty great. I didn’t realize how much friction it was to look up each phone number until this app had them ready to go, one after another. Plus it tells you how many other people used the app to call about the issue (14,700 on the federal funding freeze alone!)
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It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
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American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
January 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12
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New open access article out today in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities w/ a fantastic team.
In a nationally representative sample of Black Americans, we find that just anticipating police + community violence is harmful to various aspects of health.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In a nationally representative sample of Black Americans, we find that just anticipating police + community violence is harmful to various aspects of health.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Anticipatory Violence and Health Among Black Adults in the United States - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
This study analyzes the relationship between anticipatory community and police violence and health outcomes including mental and physical well-being, sleep problems, and functional disability. Using d...
link.springer.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New open access article out today in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities w/ a fantastic team.
In a nationally representative sample of Black Americans, we find that just anticipating police + community violence is harmful to various aspects of health.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
In a nationally representative sample of Black Americans, we find that just anticipating police + community violence is harmful to various aspects of health.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
UW School of Nursing, Dept. Of Child, Family, & Population Health Nursing is hiring 2 TT faculty! 👀
Assistant Professor: apply.interfolio.com/159379
Professor (Open Rank): apply.interfolio.com/159582
Spread the word! Would love to see more great folks in this former department of mine. 💜💛
Assistant Professor: apply.interfolio.com/159379
Professor (Open Rank): apply.interfolio.com/159582
Spread the word! Would love to see more great folks in this former department of mine. 💜💛
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December 2, 2024 at 6:29 PM
UW School of Nursing, Dept. Of Child, Family, & Population Health Nursing is hiring 2 TT faculty! 👀
Assistant Professor: apply.interfolio.com/159379
Professor (Open Rank): apply.interfolio.com/159582
Spread the word! Would love to see more great folks in this former department of mine. 💜💛
Assistant Professor: apply.interfolio.com/159379
Professor (Open Rank): apply.interfolio.com/159582
Spread the word! Would love to see more great folks in this former department of mine. 💜💛
Thanks, @vuartsci.bsky.social, for getting word out about our recent advances in research on shootings by police & what it all means for prevention. #publichealth
Summary of 3 articles’ key findings + links here: bit.ly/3On2wiv
@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social
@Vanderbilt MHS 🤝 @jhucgvs.bsky.social
Summary of 3 articles’ key findings + links here: bit.ly/3On2wiv
@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social
@Vanderbilt MHS 🤝 @jhucgvs.bsky.social
Analyzing police shootings, public safety, and policy
A series of three recently published studies have provided the first nationally comprehensive analysis of shootings by law enforcement officers that injured or killed people in the U.S. Led by Julie W...
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November 26, 2024 at 2:33 AM
Thanks, @vuartsci.bsky.social, for getting word out about our recent advances in research on shootings by police & what it all means for prevention. #publichealth
Summary of 3 articles’ key findings + links here: bit.ly/3On2wiv
@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social
@Vanderbilt MHS 🤝 @jhucgvs.bsky.social
Summary of 3 articles’ key findings + links here: bit.ly/3On2wiv
@jonathanmetzl.bsky.social
@Vanderbilt MHS 🤝 @jhucgvs.bsky.social
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What happens inside America's vast network of privately run deportation flights?
Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.
Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.
At Seattle’s Boeing Field, Real-Time Video Offers a Rare Glimpse of America’s Troubled Deportation Flights
Key details about what happens inside ICE Air would still be hidden if not for a group of Washington activists and researchers, who are now using a live video feed from the tarmac to document the…
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November 25, 2024 at 4:00 AM
What happens inside America's vast network of privately run deportation flights?
Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.
Earlier this year, ProPublica's @mckenziefunk.com reported on a group of Washington activists and researchers who use a live video feed from the tarmac to document these flights at Seattle’s Boeing Field.
Great interview with @nazsa.bsky.social As systems pivot to re-emphasize chronic illness, investing in preventing and better responding to the mental, physical, and social consequences of firearm injuries remains critical. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 24, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Great interview with @nazsa.bsky.social As systems pivot to re-emphasize chronic illness, investing in preventing and better responding to the mental, physical, and social consequences of firearm injuries remains critical. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thanks @khudejha.bsky.social! Grateful to have had you join my Foundations of Population Health students again this semester! Your global health expertise and thoughtful, interactive teaching style has been a real gift to our MHS Vanderbilt students. 🙏
Did my first guest lecture as a PhD today, on global health and the effect of political conflict on wellbeing.
Sharing definitions of physical, mental, and social wellbeing from a bright and thoughtful group of undergraduate students. Thanks to Dr. Ward & the students for having me!
Sharing definitions of physical, mental, and social wellbeing from a bright and thoughtful group of undergraduate students. Thanks to Dr. Ward & the students for having me!
November 21, 2024 at 2:48 AM
Thanks @khudejha.bsky.social! Grateful to have had you join my Foundations of Population Health students again this semester! Your global health expertise and thoughtful, interactive teaching style has been a real gift to our MHS Vanderbilt students. 🙏
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Even one shooting of a child is devastating, but more than 50 per year is a national tragedy. We support stringent accountability policies and better de-escalation techniques among police working with young people. This is not normal and we should not accept it as our reality.
November 20, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Even one shooting of a child is devastating, but more than 50 per year is a national tragedy. We support stringent accountability policies and better de-escalation techniques among police working with young people. This is not normal and we should not accept it as our reality.
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New article out today characterizing juvenile injuries and deaths by the police in Journal of Adolescent Health. Led by Dylan Jackson w/ a great team (@julie-a-ward.bsky.social, @drcrifasi.bsky.social).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Juvenile Injuries and Deaths From Shootings by Police in the United States, 2015–2020
The present study describes juveniles injured in fatal and nonfatal shootings by the police from 2015 to 2020, compares characteristics of juvenile vi…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:27 PM
New article out today characterizing juvenile injuries and deaths by the police in Journal of Adolescent Health. Led by Dylan Jackson w/ a great team (@julie-a-ward.bsky.social, @drcrifasi.bsky.social).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Re-upping for the new folks (welcome!) - A just-released, national look at what social and policy characteristics are linked to higher vs lower rates of injurious shootings by police locally.
🔬🧪🛟
Look up your area and read more about our prevention recommendations here: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
🔬🧪🛟
Look up your area and read more about our prevention recommendations here: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
November 17, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Re-upping for the new folks (welcome!) - A just-released, national look at what social and policy characteristics are linked to higher vs lower rates of injurious shootings by police locally.
🔬🧪🛟
Look up your area and read more about our prevention recommendations here: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
🔬🧪🛟
Look up your area and read more about our prevention recommendations here: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...