Reframing gun violence as a public health concern

What does taking a public health approach to gun violence look like? For Dr. Joseph Sakran, executive vice chair of surgery and director of clinical operations at Johns Hopkins Medicine, that means going beyond just treating physical injuries. “We're also treating the psychological and emotional aspect of what it's like to be injured and ensuring that we're providing trauma-informed care and wrap-around services,” Sakran tells Horizons host William Brangham. Sakran adds that Hopkins addresses this through Break the Cycle, a hospital-based violence intervention program. “When you think about these moments and these like community violence inte (Source: PBS NewsHour | Region: Global)