LGBTQ Populations and Gun Violence

with Kirsty Clark and Joseph Sexton

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

TARA  MCKAY

​Structural competency and the future of firearm research

with Kirsty Clark and Serena Musungu

with Jonathan Metzl and Jennifer Piemonte

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered the social lives of Americans and added additional economic pressures. In a series of new papers with pediatricians, emergency medicine physicians, and others, I examine how pandemic measures affected American gun violence and how mental health research on gun violence needs to adapt to the pandemic context.

Trends in paediatric firearm-related encounters during the COVID-19 pandemic by age group, race/ethnicity and schooling mode in Tennessee

with Jonathan Metzl and Jennifer Piemonte

with Kelsey Gastineau, Jesse Wrenn, Jin Han, and Alan Storrow

with Jonathan Metzl and Jennifer Piemonte

COVID-19 and American Gun Violence

​Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Future of Psychiatric Research into American Gun Violence​

Gun violence has disproportionate effects on LGBTQ+ community, some of which might surprise you. Learn more in the 2022 ABCT Gun Violence Briefing Book, a text for journalists to help put guns and violence in context.

sociologist. EDUCATOR.thought leader.

WORKING PAPER: Effects of Statewide Coronavirus Public Health Measures and State Gun Laws on American Gun Violence

abct gun violence briefing book: LGBTQ Populations and gun violence

Association of sexual orientation with suicide bereavement and related emotional distress among US adults