[F31] Impacts of local government support service expenditures on homicide rates
Ente: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Scadenza: 2026-10-31
Importo max: 50.114 EUR
Paese: US
Descrizione
Community violence exacts a devastating toll in the United States (US). A promising approach to reduce community violence focuses on investing in meeting the essential needs of communities that suffer from high levels of violence, such as housing, youth programming, and a well-maintained built environment. While these interventions have demonstrated success in reducing violence, they have been limited to particular neighborhoods or small geographic areas. Evaluations of investments to strengthen support services on a greater scale are limited by a lack of availability of robust data. To fill that gap, this project will use publicly available local budgets to build a detailed, longitudinal database of local funding expenditures for support services for the 50 most populous cities from 2010-2022 (Aim 1a). These include health, housing, education, financial support, the built environment (e.g., parks, green space), and community engagement (e.g., recreational activities and youth programming). The database will then be used to categorize cities into groups based on their trajectories in per-capita support service funding, and explore city-level predictors of these groups (Aim 1b). In Aim 2, the database will be used along with outcome and covariable data from the City Health Dashboard and various public sources to estimate the changes in homicides associated with increased levels of funding allocations for (1) housing, (2) family support, and (3) community engagement.. This research is urgently needed as evidence-based solutions are essential to reduce community violence. The research plan is complemented by an excellent interdisciplinary mentorship team and training plan to develop strong foundations in the theoretical understanding of community violence, practical knowledge of local budgetary processes, empirical knowledge of the effect of local funding expenditures on health outcomes, advanced causal inference methods for longitudinal studies, and communication skills for dissemination to various stakeholders. Building on the applicant’s background as a surgical trainee entering the field of trauma surgery, the combined research and training plan will prepare the applicant to successfully pursue a career augmenting clinical care of victims of violence with research to facilitate interventions that prevent interpersonal violence from occurring in the first place. It will also position him as a thought-leader and leader of empirical science on local funding as a factor that can impact health.
Istituzione: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
PI: Jonathan Burke
Progetto: 5F31MD020274-02
Settori: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
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