State Firearm Laws and Suicide Prevention
Testimony presented before the Vermont House Committee on Health Care on February 14, 2023.
Andrew R. Morral
Senior Behavioral Scientist, Director of the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research
Expertise
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Andrew R. Morral is the Greenwald Family Chair in Gun Policy and a senior behavioral scientist at RAND. He coleads with Rosanna Smart RAND's Gun Policy in America Initiative to understand the effects of gun policies, and he directs the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research, a philanthropy that has awarded more than $24m in research funding to non-RAND researchers across the country.
In addition to his gun policy work, his recent research includes studies examining the prevalence and characteristics of sexual assaults and suicides among members of the U.S. military. His expertise includes program evaluation, survey research, and performance measurement. He has developed innovative techniques for examining drug use, firearm violence, and sexual violence epidemiology; survey response accuracy; and the effects of state firearm laws and substance abuse treatment programs. He was the initial developer of causal modeling software that is now widely used (the R twang package).
Morral has published dozens of peer-reviewed reports, and has served as a science advisor to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, to the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events, and to the DHS Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards program. He holds a Ph.D. in psychology from New School for Social Research.
Education
Ph.D. in psychology, New School for Social Research
Selected Work
- Morral, Andrew R., Rosanna Smart, Terry Schell, Brian Vegetable, Emma Thomas, "Geographic and demographic differences in the proportion of individuals living in a household with a firearm. ," JAMA Network Open, 7(2), 2024
- Andrew Morral and Rosanna Smart, "Better data, less gun violence," Science, 377, 2022
- Andrew Morral and Rosanna Smart, "A new era for firearm violence prevention research.," Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 328(12), 2022
- Schell, Cefalu, Griffin, Smart and Morral, "Changes in firearm mortality following the implementation of state laws regulating firearm access and use," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020, 2020
- Smart, Rosanna, Andrew R. Morral, Rajeev Ramchand, Amanda Charbonneau, Jhacova Williams, Sierra Smucker, Samantha Cherney, and Lea Xenakis, The Science of Gun Policy: A Critical Synthesis of Research Evidence on the Effects of Gun Policies in the United States, Third Edition, RAND Corporation (RR-A243-4), 2023
- Morral, Andrew R., Terry L. Schell, Sexual Assault of Sexual Minorities in the U.S. Military, RAND Corporation (RR-A1390-1), 2021
- Schell, T.L, Griffin, B.A., Morral, A.R. , Evaluating Methods to Estimate the Effect of State Laws on Firearms Deaths: A Simulation Study. , RAND Corporation: Santa Monica. (RR-2685), 2018
- Morral, Andrew R., Gore, Kristie L., Schell, Terry L., Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment in the US Military, Volumes 1-6, RAND (RR-870), 2018
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