In January 2013, President Obama issued a memorandum directing federal agencies to conduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and ways to prevent it. Three years later, the flow of federal dollars to such research is still relatively small. A 2013 call for proposals from the National Institutes of Health, for example, for projects "with a particular focus on firearm violence" resulted in nine grants, so far, totaling nearly $3.7 million, and only two of those studies deal directly with guns. While that is a pittance compared with the size of the problems created by gun violence in the United States, it still represents a "major change," said Michael B. Siegel, a professor in the department of community health sciences at Boston University’s School of Public Health.

January 8, 2016 ・ From Chronicle of Higher Education