The index accounts for thin coverage, marking where gun violence is likely undercounted.
- Reported in the news
- Not reported
- Likely undercounted
The problem
The problem
Violence brings people to the emergency department, but where and how often it happens is easy to undercount. With one of the inaugural Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund grants, this work is building a Gun Violence Visibility Index from EveryShot, an AI-built database of incidents drawn from news reports, that accounts for areas with limited local journalism.
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What this work wants to know
Where is gun violence undercounted, and by how much?
How can AI-built incident data be checked against what emergency departments see?
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Featured work
News
Everytown announces six grantees chosen to advance gun violence prevention research using the AI-powered EveryShot database (everytownsupportfund.org)
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund · 2026
R. Andrew Taylor, MD, MHS
Robert E. O’Connor Distinguished Professor & Vice Chair for Research and Innovation
Research interests: Artificial Intelligence · Clinical Decision Support · Informatics · Digital Health
R. Andrew Taylor is the Robert E. O’Connor Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia and the department’s Vice Chair of Research and Innovation, with a courtesy appointment as Professor of Data Science.
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