Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention

As tablets and laptops have become common classroom tools, schools continue to wrestle with another device: the cell phone.

On April 10, the University of Michigan's Youth Policy Lab (YPL) convened a National School Cell Phone Policy Conference, inviting researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from Michigan and beyond to compare notes on a rapidly changing school pol...

Lior Cooper (BA ‘26) and Isaac Davis (BA ‘26) recount their experience at a peer-led dinner with Dr. Cynthia Ewell-Foster and how candid conversation has changed how they think about firearm policy.

The Ford School's recent event on gun violence made two things clear: gun violence is preventable, and using public health tools to fight the crisis has already saved many lives.