In the Shared Humanity podcast and video series, host Nelba Márquez-Greene talks to the humans behind the headlines of gun violence. They tell their stories, discuss solutions, and teach us how we can best support them. Through powerful narratives and evidence-based insights, each episode empowers listeners to act toward positive change and hope.
Márquez-Greene is the Yale School of Public Health’s activist in residence. Her daughter, Ana Grace, 6, was one of 20 students and six administrators and teachers who were killed in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut on Dec. 14, 2012.
“Public health gives us the tools and the means to address gun violence where it is needed most—in the communities where families are devastated, lives are broken, and loved ones are left to make sense of the unimaginable. Using the same evidence-based practices that gave us seat belts in motor vehicles, safer workplaces, improved sanitation, more accurate information on the health impact of smoking, vaccines, and the eradication of infectious diseases like polio, we can address firearm injury and gun violence,” she said.