The Center for Gun Policy and Research is a research center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health dedicated to researching ways to reduce gun violence in the United States.
The center's current director is Daniel Webster,[1] and its co-director is Jon Vernick.
The Center for Gun Policy and Research was formally established in 1995, with Stephen Teret as founding director.
[2][3] In addition to Webster, Vernick, and Teret, other notable Center for Gun Policy and Research faculty members include Shannon Frattaroli, Colleen Barry, and Sheldon Greenberg.
The center's website, as well as Webster, have said that the research conducted there is done independently of any funding source.