Dr. Jessica Beard is the director of research at The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting. Through her Stoneleigh Foundation Fellowship, Dr. has been working at PCGVR to deepen the media narrative around gun violence, with the goal of increasing support for policies and programs to curb the epidemic and save lives.
Studies led by PCGVR research director Dr. Jessica Beard
- Defining harmful news reporting on community firearm violence: A modified Delphi consensus study
- Public health framing of firearm violenceon local television news in Philadelphia, PA,USA: a quantitative content analysis
- Systematic disparities in reporting on community firearm violence on local television news in Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Assessing the Gun Violence Archive as an Epidemiologic Data Source for Community Firearm Violence in 4 US Cities – PubMed (nih.gov)
- Rethinking “recidivism” in firearm injury research and prevention – PubMed (nih.gov)
- “Like I’m a nobody:” firearm-injured peoples’ perspectives on news media reporting about firearm violence
- The changing epidemiology of interpersonal firearm violence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Philadelphia, PA
- Changes in Shooting Incidence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Between March and November 2020
- Making the news: Victim characteristics associated with media reporting on firearm injury
- Examining mass shootings from a neighborhood perspective: An analysis of multiple-casualty events and media reporting in Philadelphia, United States
- Clustered Arrivals of Firearm-Injured Patients in an Urban Trauma System: A Silent Epidemic
- Firearm assault in Philadelphia, 2005-2014: a comparison of police and trauma registry data
- The enduring impact of historical and structural racism on urban violence in Philadelphia
- Firearm Deaths in America: Can We Learn From 462,000 Lives Lost?
- Structural Causes of Urban Firearm Violence: A Trauma Surgeon’s View From Philadelphia
- Quantifying Disparities in Urban Firearm Violence by Race and Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A Cartographic Study
- Jessica Beard’s Bibliography at the National Library of Medicine
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PCGVR research in the news
- US government cuts imperil life-saving gun violence research. As doctors, we fear for the future | The Guardian, March 28, 2025
- Trauma surgeons: We are bracing for a return to the rates of gun violence we witnessed five years ago | Opinion: The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 16, 2025
- 12 harmful practices to avoid when covering gun violence | Association of Health Care Journalists, February 25, 2025
- Insight: A Study on the Impact of News Reporting of Firearm Violence | iHeart Radio, February 7, 2025
- Philadelphia trauma surgeon says US gun violence can and must be tackled | Radio France Internationale, November 4, 2024
- WATCH ‘Run, Hide, Fight: Growing Up Under the Gun,’ a documentary about how gun violence changed a generation | PBS NewsHour, October 10, 2024.
- Framing Gun Violence w/ Jim MacMillan & Dr. Jessica Beard | The Trauma Beat, August 5, 2024.
- Research Highlights Need for Public Health Approach in News Reporting of Gun Violence | The Good Men Project, August 3, 2024.
- Philly news stations use harmful tactics to report on firearm violence, studies say | Association of Health Care Journalists, July 12, 2024.
- Research highlights need for public health approach in news reporting of gun violence The Journalist’s Resource, June 25, 2024.
- Could a Holistic Approach to Gun Violence Reporting Help Victims? | The Trace, May 14, 2024.
- Two New Studies More Closely Examine How Reports of Community Firearm Violence Are Framed on Local Television News in Philadelphia | Lewis Katz School of Medicine, May 7, 2024.
- Changing the Narrative of Gun Violence | Columbia College Today, Winter/Spring 2024
- Temple Health trauma surgeon receives federal grant to study media coverage of gun violence | WHYY, December 6, 2023.
- NIH Grant Led by Lewis Katz School of Medicine’s Dr. Jessica Beard Will Examine Racial and Spatial Disparities in Harmful News Media Reporting on Community Firearm Violence | Temple Health, November 28, 2023.
- How media reporting on firearm violence does more harm than good |It’s All Journalism, August 3, 2023.
- Changing the Narrative on Gun Violence Reporting in Philadelphia | CU Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative via YouTube, March 15, 2023.
- True Believers | Philadelphia Magazine, March 1, 2023.
- These Philadelphia Researchers Want Journalists to Tell Better Stories About Gun Violence | The Trace, February 23, 2023.
- ‘Like I’m a nobody’: Breaking news coverage of shootings is dehumanizing and delays progress, per new Temple study | Billy Penn, January 10, 2023.
- Fall summit speaker Jessica Beard targets more empathetic, ethical coverage of gun violence | Association of Health Care Journalists, October 31, 2022.
- Changing the Way We Talk About Gun Violence | Temple University Faculty Herald, October 17, 2022.
- Temple trauma surgeon earns fellowship aimed at curbing gun violence | Temple Now, September 8, 2021.
- Dr. Jessica H. Beard Named Stoneleigh Fellow and Philadelphia Center For Gun Violence Reporting‘s Director Of Research | The Stoneleigh Foundation, June 2, 2021.