Rod McCullom

Oct 23, 2024 | nature.com | Rod McCullom

California’s Inland Empire is a broad swath of land east of Los Angeles, about five times the size of Connecticut, stretching through desert and surrounded by mountains. It’s one of the state’s fastest-growing regions, but it’s underresourced, with incomes and education levels lower than the state average. It is also medically underserved, with too few primary care physicians and specialists to adequately tend to the area’s increasing population.

Sep 11, 2024 | harvardpublichealth.org | Rod McCullom |Jo Zixuan Zhou

<h1>No research about us without us?</h1><p>When researchers include the people they study in the research process, outcomes improve.</p><p>Written by Rod McCullom</p><p>This <a rel="canonical" href="https://harvardpublichealth.org/equity/community-engaged-research-can-improve-health-equity-outcomes/">article</a> originally appeared in<a href="https://harvardpublichealth.org/">Harvard Public Health magazine</a>.

Aug 9, 2024 | salon.com | Rod McCullom

More than seven years ago, when the city of Chicago began its broad deployment of acoustic technology to identify and locate gunfire in high-crime neighborhoods, supporters promoted the system — which uses acoustic sensors, GPS software, and machine learning algorithms to alert the police in real-time — as an effective way to reduce handgun violence. At that time, more than 90 cities had adopted the technology developed more than 25 years ago by a San Francisco Bay area firm called ShotSpotter.

Aug 6, 2024 | undark.org | Rod McCullom

More than seven years ago, when the city of Chicago began its broad deployment of acoustic technology to identify and locate gunfire in high-crime neighborhoods, supporters promoted the system — which uses acoustic sensors, GPS software, and machine learning algorithms to alert the police in real-time — as an effective way to reduce handgun violence. At that time, more than 90 cities had adopted the technology developed more than 25 years ago by a San Francisco Bay area firm called ShotSpotter.

Jun 28, 2024 | salon.com | Rod McCullom

Julie Ward is no stranger to the realities of gun violence. She worked for almost 15 years as a nurse in hospitals and emergency rooms from Arizona to Oregon and Washington. In that time, she said, she probably treated dozens of people harmed by gun violence, including teenagers, adults, and first responders. Those experiences led Ward to pursue a doctorate in health policy with a focus on gun violence prevention in the fall of 2019.