David Hemenway

David Hemenway (born 1945)[1] is Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has a B.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1974) from Harvard University in economics. He is the director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center. He is also currently a James Marsh Visiting Professor-at-Large at the University of Vermont.[2] Hemenway has written over 130 articles and five books in the fields of economics and public health.

David Hemenway
Born1945 (age 74–75)
Alma materHarvard University
Known forStudying violence and injury prevention
AwardsRobert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, Excellence in Science Award from the injury section of the American Public Health Association
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics, public health
InstitutionsHarvard School of Public Health
ThesisIndustrywide voluntary products standards (1974)

Research

Hemenway began his research in the field of injury prevention in the 1960s, when he helped investigate product safety for Ralph Nader as one of "Nader's Raiders". Since then, he has become well known for studying gun violence and how it can be prevented.[3]

Books

His most recent book is While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention (2009). Private Guns, Public Health (2006) describes the public health approach to reducing firearm violence, and summarizes scientific research on firearms and health.

Prices and Choices (1993) is a collection of twenty-six of his essays applying microeconomic theory to everyday life. Monitoring and Compliance: the Political Economy of Inspection (1985) describes the importance of inspection processes in ensuring that regulations are followed, and the reasons the system often fails. Industry-wide Voluntary Product Standards (1975) describes the role of voluntary standards and standardization in the U.S. economy.

An early statistics article, Why Your Classes are Larger than Average, has been anthologized in various mathematical collections.[4][5]

Other

Hemenway appeared at a forum hosted by the Robert Wood Johnson foundation and made the following statement in April 2013, "Instead of it being the mark of a real man that you can shoot somebody at 50 feet and kill them with a gun, the mark of a real man is that you would never do anything like that. . . . The gun is a great equalizer because it makes wimps as dangerous as people who really have skill and bravery and so I’d like to have this notion that anyone using a gun is a wuss. They aren’t anybody to be looked up to. They’re somebody to look down at because they couldn’t defend themselves or couldn’t protect others without using a gun."[6]

References
  1. Carter, Gregg Lee (2012). Guns in American Society. ABC-CLIO. p. 549. ISBN 9780313386718.
  2. "Bio on UVT website". Archived from the original on 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
  3. Lambert, Craig (2004-09-01). "Death by the Barrel". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  4. Alexanderson GL (ed). The Harmony of the World: 75 Years of Mathematics Magazine. Mathematical Association of America, 2007.
  5. Dudley U (ed). Is Mathematics Inevitable? Mathematics Association of America, 2008.
  6. Hemenway, David. "Gun Violence: Harvard School of Public Health on Research Around Preventing Violence". Webcast. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
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