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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA

@drchukaemezue.bsky.social
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Dad, Hubby, Associate Prof @RushUNursing researching Youth Mental Health, Violence & Injury Prevention, Digital Mental Health, Stress Embedding. PI @BrotherlyACT | #CiteBlackWomen

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John Tregoning @prof-tregoning.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Is the scientific paper a fraud? How we write scientific papers does not reflect how we do science. Their formal structure infers a pre-ordained linear process rather than reflecting the messy creativity of research. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Is the scientific paper still a fraud?
How we write scientific papers does not reflect how we do science, masking the human in the process by design. This Perspective invites us to consider the structure of the scientific paper, and the ne...
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New paper: A 25-year CDC WONDER analysis found that 200,704 U.S. children and young adults ages 1 to 24 died by firearm homicide or suicide from 1999 to 2024. The burden varied sharply by age, sex, race, ethnicity, and intent. Video: youtu.be/kzud8ls-SBE Paper: publichealth.jmir.org/2026/1/e96931/
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25 Years of U.S. Firearm Homicides and Suicides: Nearly 200,000 Young Lives Lost
YouTube video by The BrotherlyACT™ Project
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 04/08/2026
Two Chicago hospitals— Northwestern Memorial and Rush University Medical Center — are again tied for best hospital in the state and rank among the top 20 in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report.
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Northwestern and Rush tie for best hospital in Illinois, rank among top 20 in country
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Happy to share my promotion to Associate Professor at Rush University College of Nursing. Grateful to the many students, colleagues, collaborators, families, and partners joining me in this commitment to advancing #violenceprevention and mental health equity for youth and their families. #Promoted
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We are not talking/doing enough about the growing number of young people (esp males) who are actively impacted by the seemingly innocuous #gambling epidemic. We will look at this time in our collective history in the same way we looked at the "coolness"/normalization/aggressive marketing of tobacco.
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 09/05/2026
A first-of-its-kind study found that nearly two-thirds of gun injury patients are treated in hospitals that have violence intervention programs, but only about 20 percent of those patients participate in those programs.
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Just 1 in 5 Gunshot Patients Are Accessing the Intervention Programs Designed to Help Them
A first-of-its-kind research study found that nearly two-thirds of firearm injury patients are treated in hospitals with violence intervention programs, but only about 20 percent of those patients…
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Much obliged, @sbm.org Honored to be part of such a thoughtful community!
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NPR @npr.org · 08/03/2026
In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."
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'One year of failure.' The Lancet slams RFK Jr.'s first year as health chief
In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."
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Jessica Bishop-Royse, PhD @jbishoproyse.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
CFP for a special issue on maternal and infant health disparities—welcoming quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods work. 🗓️ Deadline: May 31, 2026 📎 buff.ly/BNkfGnD #HealthEquity #AcademicSky
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GIFFORDS @giffords.org · 26/01/2026
With a bullet lodged in his leg, Brown University freshman Spencer Yang returned to campus last week after he was wounded in the shooting that killed two of his classmates. When asked his biggest fear in returning, Spencer said, “shooting number two.”
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‘I thought I was going to die’: Wounded Brown student returns to campus - The Boston Globe
A bullet is still in Spencer Yang's leg after the December shooting. “I think I’m the same guy, just with a little extra metal in me,” the freshman from New York quipped.
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
📢Special Call: We are guest editing a Special Issue in Youth (MDPI) on co-designing youth mental health via participatory and digital approaches. We welcome interdisciplinary work centering youth voice + lived expertise. Deadline: July 31, 2026. Link below. #YouthMentalHealth #ParticipatoryDesign
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 03/12/2025
In June, Austria experienced its first mass shooting at a school. Lawmakers swiftly responded with a proposal for sweeping gun reform. The U.S. was invoked as a warning the day the act passed.
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What Can We Learn From Austria's Response to a Single School Shooting?
Lawmakers passed swift, sweeping gun reform after the mass shooting at a school in Graz. Here's how they did it.
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Institute for Policy Solutions @ipsnowjhson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
NINR’s 40-year legacy is foundational, leading nursing research to inform practice & policy to optimize health for all. I’m honored to moderate a session on prevention & health promotion at this week's symposium. At IPS, nursing research is vital to our mission to end health inequities: IPSNow.org.
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 02/09/2025
The 1,264 people shot in Chicago through August 30 this year signifies far, far too many lives impacted by gun violence, but that figure is down 37 percent through this point last year and down nearly 60 percent from this point in 2021.
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Contextualizing Chicago's Enormous Drop in Shootings
When was the last time Chicago had this few shootings?
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Speaking of small joys, my op-ed in the @chicagotribune.com out today commemorates Father’s Day and raising boys in an age of digital masculinity. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/15/o...
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Chuka Emezue: Raising sons in the age of digital masculinity
Behind Father’s Day lies a silent crisis: boys navigating a minefield where messaging around masculinity promotes dominance over empathy,
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hoping some of these hard-won gains in gun violence prevention are sustained in 2025. Really, hoping. Gun Violence by the Numbers in 2024 👇 www.thetrace.org/2024/12/data...
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Gun Violence by the Numbers in 2024
As firearm sales have fallen, so have deaths and mass shootings. Trace reporter Chip Brownlee breaks down this year’s gun violence trends.
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 26/03/2025
NEW: The Supreme Court upheld a Biden-era regulation requiring sellers of “ready to build” ghost gun kits to add serial numbers to some parts and conduct background checks on prospective buyers. In October, we explained the stakes of the case:
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SCOTUS’s VanDerStok Case Isn’t Just About Ghost Guns
The U.S Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on October 8 to determine whether the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives overstepped in effectively outlawing certain kits used to make…
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GIFFORDS @giffords.org · 26/03/2025
NEW: The Supreme Court just upheld ATF’s critical ghost gun rule 👏👏👏 They ruled that ghost gun kits are legally firearms, meaning they must have serial numbers and can only be sold by licensed sellers after a background check. This is a BIG win for public safety.
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The removal of the Surgeon General’s gun violence advisory from HHS is unconscionable. Gun violence IS a public health crisis. Silencing science will cost lives—especially those of our children. Public health above politics! #GunViolenceIsAPublicHealthIssue #PH
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NPR @npr.org · 24/03/2025
Some 30,000 fewer people are dying every year in the U.S. from fentanyl and other street drugs. This shift has stunned addiction experts, reversing decades of rising death.
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Reporter's notebook: 8 theories why fentanyl deaths are plummeting
Some 30,000 fewer people are dying every year in the U.S. from fentanyl and other street drugs. This shift has stunned addiction experts, reversing decades of rising death.
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 21/03/2025
“Between raising the minimum age to purchase firearms to improve safe storage, we’re taking a multi-prong approach to addressing gun violence in our communities and schools.” Press release:
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House Passes Bill to Improve Public Safety, Reduce Youth Violence
The House today passed legislation to make gun violence prevention and public safety efforts more accessible to parents and legal guardians of students.
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
To Make Guns Less Dangerous, One Group Teaches Young People How to Use Them www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...
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How to Reduce Gun Deaths? One Group Teaches Young People How to Use Them.
An organization in Chicago is trying to apply a strategy used for fighting drug addiction to reduce gun violence.
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CMK @doctorcmk.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
WAY TO GO Librarians as data revolutionaries!
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CMK @doctorcmk.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is not about establishing new funding priority guidelines via transitions between administrations- it is about dismantling the entire enterprise of traditional rational approaches to informed science & policy. We either read it & weep or ....
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CMK @doctorcmk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Illinois scientist, medical personnel, patients alarmed about NIH Funding Freeze/ Call your U.S. Senators Illinois Senator Richard Durbin 202-224-2152 Senator Tammy Duckworth 202-224-2854
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 21/01/2025
The new administration took down the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention website: www.whitehouse.gov/ogvp/
Screenshot of White House 404  / PAGE NOT FOUND message.
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🚨 We're Hiring! Join my team @RushUNursing as a Research Coordinator! Help drive impactful research in youth and firearm violence prevention and teen mental health.📍Chicago, IL/💼Part-time/💰$27.47–$43.27/hour. Apply here: shorturl.at/jlBZe
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 02/01/2025
In “Seven Stories,” gun violence survivors aren’t the subjects of crime coverage. They’re the writers, documenting their own experiences — and they tell the story of gun violence in a different way.
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They Lost Loved Ones to Guns. They’re Sharing Their Stories So Things Will Be Different.
Seven gun violence survivors, seven stories of Chicago. How might their experiences drive change?
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
One of my favorite readings for the winter explores Jesymn Ward’s latest, about an enslaved teenager drawing upon the strength of family bonds and elemental spirits to find her own path to resilience. 4columns.org/phillips-jul...
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Let Us Descend
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Chuka Emezue PhD, MPH, MPA @drchukaemezue.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Young Black men face 24x higher risks of firearm injuries & homicides. Enter the BrotherlyACT app: Life skills coaching, AI talk therapy, and in-app safety planning. We discuss its usability testing. TLDR: Usability score was high. More here: formative.jmir.org/2024/1/e60918/ #mHealth
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