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Gun Violence Prevention Research

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis and champion of the Center for Violence Prevention Research Big Idea, about the shift in people's behaviors in the aftermath of mass shootings.
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Guns and Public Health

Garen Wintemute, champion of the Violence Prevention Research Center Big Idea, is a leader in physician efforts to confront gun violence as a public health epidemic.
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Where Will We Find Tech-Savvy Farm Workers?

University of California, Davis (UC Davis) professor David Slaughter, a man at the forefront of digital technologies in specialty crop farming, can feel the early tremors of farming’s major disruptive force approaching.

Making Medicine Personal

The Center of Precision Medicine at UC Davis seeks to better predict risk to health and responses to therapy by gathering and integrating complex and detailed information from multiple disciplines.
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Hoofing IT at the Dairy Barn

Professor Cassandra Tucker of animal sciences has been working with cows at the UC Davis Dairy Teaching and Research Facility to help improve animal welfare through the use of accelerometers. These accelerometers, or “cow Fitbits,” are placed around the neck of the cow like a collar or hung as an ear tag.

Extending Care to Families Affected by Autism

A new initiative led by the UC Davis Health MIND Institute aims to make evidence-based interventions more widely available for the millions living with autism – including the half-million U.S. adolescents poised to plunge off a ‘services cliff,’ and the adults who are already at the bottom.

One in 59 children nationwide is currently diagnosed with autism, almost triple the number at the turn of the millennium. Yet many of today’s more effective evidence-based treatments aren’t yet widely available to families who need them.

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