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Gun Violence Prevention Program April - June 2018 Challenge Summit | Hack-a-thon | Demo Day
Gun Violence Prevention Program
April - June 2018
Challenge Summit | Hack-a-thon | Demo Day
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Grand Prize Winner
Team Good Guy with a Gun:
App-based educational tool that uses embedded Public Service Announcements to train gun owners about gun safety
#GunViolenceHack Stats
o 150 Participantso 63 Challenges Pitched o 10 Teamso 21 Mentors o 27 Speakerso 7 Judgeso 57.2K Twitter Impressions
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CAMTech launches all of its initiatives with a focus on needs identification to ensure solutions designed are solving for real challenges. The Gun Violence Prevention Program opened with a Challenge Summit to facilitate a discussion of challenges and provide critical insight into gun violence prevention. The Gun Violence Prevention Hack-a-thon served as an innovation platform for a diverse community to co-create innovations addressing the needs identified at the Challenge Summit. Teams from the Hack-a-thon were offered mentorship up to the Gun Violence Prevention Demo Day in June 2018. Lattice Innovations, CAMTech’s partner in India, and the MGH Gun Violence Prevention Coalition played an instrumental role in organizing the Challenge Summit & Hack-a-thon with sponsorship from MGH and the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization (MGPO) and with support from the Harvard School of Public Health.
On an average day, 96 Americans are killed by guns. Each year in the United States, there are 22,000 gun suicides, and 75 preschoolers are shot dead. From April - June 2018, the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) employed its innovation methodology and a public health approach to gun violence prevention. The Gun Violence Prevention Challenge Summit, Hack-a-thon & Demo Day convened 150 clinicians, government representatives, public health experts and affected community members to generate innovations addressing gun safety, mental health, community resilience and policy.
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Gun Violence Prevention Challenge Summit | April 13, 2018
Time Event
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM Registration and Breakfast
9:05 AM - 9:20 AM Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Kristian Olson, CAMTech Director
9:20 AM - 9:35 AM Opening Remarks: Dr. Tim Ferris, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization
9:40 AM - 10:00 AM Morning Keynote: Police Commissioner William B. Evans, Boston Police Department
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Fireside Chat: Police Commissioner William B. Evans, Boston Police Department, & Dr. Peter Masiakos, Massachusetts General Hospital
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Break
10:50 AM - 11:35 AM Panel 1 - Self-Inflicted Gun Violence: Dr. Sandro Galea, Boston University School of Public Health; Mary Vriniotis, Harvard Injury Control Research Center; Monica Valdes Lupi, Boston Public Health Commission; Angus McQuilken, MA Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence
11:35 AM - 11:50 AM Personal Story: Dr. Joseph Sakran, Johns Hopkins University
11:50 AM - 12:35 PM Panel 2 - Unintentional Shootings: Dr. Joseph Sakran, Johns Hopkins University; Dr. David Hemenway, Harvard School of Public Health; Sheriff Peter Koutoujian, Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office; John Rosenthal, Stop Handgun Violence; Dr. Judith Palfrey, Boston Children’s Hospital
12:35 PM - 12:50 PM Personal Story: Martin Henson, Black Lives Matter - Boston
12:50 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:35 PM - 2:20 PM Panel 3 - Gun Assaults: Dr. Michael Siegel, Boston University School of Public Health; Mike Weisser, Huffington Post columnist on gun violence and gun business owner; Rachel Rodrigues, Louis D. Brown Peace Institute; Kevin Lynch, The Resolve to Stop the Violence Project
2:20 PM - 2:35 PM Personal Story: Joshua McGill, Orlando Pulse Nightclub Survivor
2:35 PM - 2:55 PM Afternoon Keynote: Mayor Martin J. Walsh, City of Boston
At the Edward M. Kennedy Institute on April 13, the Gun Violence Prevention Challenge Summit convened government representatives, public health experts, affected community members and clinicians to facilitate a discussion of challenges and provide critical insights into gun violence prevention. During a series of four panel discussions on self-inflicted gun violence, unintentional shootings, gun assaults and mass shootings, 17 experts in public health, clinical medicine, business, government and community organizing provided insight into gun violence. The Gun Violence Prevention Challenge Summit also included keynotes from Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans and Mayor Martin J. Walsh who underscored the intersection of innovation, health, policy, and law enforcement.
2:55 PM - 3:35 PM Interactive Coffee Session: Challenge Identification
3:40 PM - 4:25 PM Panel 4 - Mass Shootings: Dr. Douglas Wiebe, University of Pennsylvania; Ruhi Bengali, Everytown for Gun Safety; Kristen Bauer, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM Closing Remarks: Dr. Kristian Olson, CAMTech Director
4:25 PM - 4:40 PM Personal Story: Jody Marchand, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
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The Gun Violence Prevention Hack-a-thon on April 14-15 at the MGH Simches Research Center served as an open innovation platform for a diverse community to co-create solutions over a 48-hour period. Following the Challenge Summit, participants in the Hack-a-thon worked around the clock Saturday and Sunday to develop solutions that ranged from gun buyback programs for safe firearm disposal to gun donor stickers on state-issued IDs.
Gun Violence Prevention Hack-a-thon | April 14 - 15, 2018
10 Teams, 10 Solutions
o Beyond Buybacks
o Amunition Restriction Now
o CB4
o Detect + Connect
o Dream Alive
o Good Guy with a Gun
o Mobilizing All Responsible Gun Owners
o Gun Donor
o Resilient Reality
o Sobriety Controlled Gun
Hack-a-thon Award Winners
o Tech Innovation Award
Sobriety Controlled Gun:
Alcohol-sensing firearm locking device that uses a breathalyzer as an alternative to existing cable locks with an aim to prevent alcohol-related suicide deaths
o Communications Strategy Award:
Good Guy with a Gun:
App-based educational tool that uses embedded Public Service Announcements to train gun owners about gun safety
o Community Resilience Award
Dream Alive:
App that links individuals and families affected by gun violence to mentors and social services
Through cross-disciplinary collaboration, mentorship and award incentives, teams fostered ideas into novel innovations with the potential to curb the epidemic of gun violence and improve the lives of survivors. Participants with diverse backgrounds and skill sets pitched over 63 challenges related to gun violence prevention, formed cross-disciplinary teams and presented 10 innovations they developed over 36 hours.
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Tom Weis Rhode Island School of Design
Joshua McGill Survivor, Orlando Pulse Nightclub
Sarah Konstantino Optum
Dr. David Hemenway Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Douglas Wiebe University of Pennsylvania
Mentors CAMTech recruited 21 experts in public health, clinical medicine, government, research, communications, and design to mentor teams throughout the ideation process, offer feedback on their innovations, and prepare teams to pitch their solutions before an expert panel of judges.
Morgan Matthews N Square Collaborative
Molly Pahn BU School of Public Health
Claire Boine BU School of Public Health
Anita Knopov BU School of Public Health
Tim Maly Rhode Island School of Design
Larissa Purnell Optum
Harold Roy Massachusetts General Hospital
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Dr. Shiva Sinha Medtronic
Eliza Coan Liberty Mutual
Jonathan Miller MA Attorney General’s Office
Sarah Fitzgerald Liberty Mutual
Dr. James Rifino Wachusett Emergency Physicians
Kaleigh Killoran Harvard Business School
Dr. Margaret Seater Massachusetts General Hospital
Mary Sebert Massachusetts General Hospital
Julia Cartwright New York University
Mentors
Anne Donohue Boston University
Dr. Peter Masiakos Massachusetts General Hospital
Ben Beck ELEVEN
Ladi Olaoye National Society of Black Engineers
Judges
Co-creation is central to CAMTech’s innovation methodology. CAMTech assembled a multidsciplinary panel of judges with expertise in engineering, design, health communications and clinical medicine to select winners at the Gun Violence Prevention Hack-a-thon.
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Gun Violence Prevention Demo Day | June 15, 2018
In the News
o Public Health Post: Josh McGill, Survivor of the Orlando Pulse Nightclub Shootingo WGBH/NPR: Could a Public Health Approach Help Prevent Gun Violence?o Boston City TV: CAMTech Gun Violence Prevention Challenge Summit & Hack-a-thon Promoo Boston Herald: MGH event looks at firearms from public health angleo Innovators Magazine: Challenge on to Curb Gun Violenceo MGH: Hack-a-thon Focuses on Gun Violence Preventiono Harvard Medicine News: A Public Health Approach to Gun Violence
During the Gun Violence Prevention Demo Day, all teams from the Gun Violence Prevention Hack-a-thon were eligible to compete for a grand prize of $10K and six months acceleration support through the CAMTech Accelerator Program (CAP). To select the winner of the grand prize, CAMTech assembled a multidisciplinary panel of judges with expertise in engineering, design and clinical medicine.
Grand Prize Winner
Judges
Dr. Ryan Carroll Massachusetts General Hospital
Ela Ben-Ur Olin College of Engineering
Brian Rosnov Philips HealthWorks
4 Teams, 4 Solutions
o Detect + Connect
o Adoor Life
o Sobriety Controlled Gun
o Good Guy with a Gun
Dr. Katrina Armstrong Physician-in-Chief
Massachusetts General Hospital
Keynote
CAMTech awarded Team Good Guy with a Gun, which includes Dr. Peter Greenspan of Massachusetts General Hospital, Kaleigh Killoran of Harvard Business School, Zoe Wolszon of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Christian Paxson, a Special Forces Weapons Sergeant and firearms instructor, a $10K grand prize and six months of acceleration support through the CAP. In April, the team also won the $1,000 Communications Strategy Award during the Gun Violence Prevention Hack-a-thon. Team Good Guy with a Gun is the twelfth innovation to enter the CAP.
“What really matters is the people in this room who start a conversation across disciplinary lines. We don’t want an echo chamber, but we want an action step.” - Dr. Kristian Olson, CAMTech Director
Good Guy with a Gun:App-based educational tool that uses embedded Public Service Announcements to train gun owners about gun safety
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Challenges Pitched by Participants
Developing a communications strategy that counters the NRA’s narrative, improves public health, and starts a conversation with gun owners.
Interested in figuring out how to change the narrative of “good guy with a gun” being able to de-escalate a situation.
Mine social media to identify red flags ahead of shooting.
We need a solution that effectively reduces the number of mass shootings and school shootings without compromising the safety and rights of people that rely on guns. Our idea is to use ammunition restriction technologies as a solution.
Prevent/reduce straw purchasing.
A call for a brainstorming group to propose a system architecture involving technologies to address three main areas of prevention of school shooting events -- inappropriate access to schools, gunfire detection / localization, and any technologies which might be effective in suppres-sion of the event as quickly as possible. This will probably involve multiple sensing modalities, machine learning, and suppression technolo-gies & techniques.
Early exposure to use of guns communities prone to violence (ideally all communities). Mandatory education for owners and household members.
How do we create conversation that is inclusive of the feelings of the majority of the population with respect to firearm legislation, including with the NRA?
How can we nationally better regulate overabundance of firearms for the future.
Finding ways to create stronger social ties for young men/men and healthy avenues for expressing emotions. Hacking toxic masculinity and creating alternative pathways.
I’m interested in focusing on either technical, communications/marketing, political/legal, or any other creative ways of generating methods for data collection and other forms of research around gun violence.
Start a movement to Abolish the Second Amendment.
How do we address/change the concept of “Virtuous Violence.”
Panic button that close bullet-proof doors in classroom when an active shooter is identified.
Create media funded by anti-gun and pro-gun sources. Create and maintain an open dialogue between both sides.
While we wait for smart guns, is there a lower-tech way to create an attachment that would prevent the safety from being switched off with-out a password / pin / other?
Resources specifically for childhood survivors of gun violence.
Sitting in a room with a victim of gun violence I realized I had never had any formal instruction on how to have a conversation about gun violence as a physician (in training). How do we help make this part of normal education for medical students, residents, nurses, and other healthcare professionals?
How do we build trust between government systems (especially law enforcement) and the public (especially communities of color)? Tackling this issue could reduce police violence, increase utilization of currently available public services and start dialogue.
Can we do something to address the pleasure of guns? Their is a fantasy element to owning them and could we potentially change the fan-tasy?
Global topic of school shootings. Interested in increasing the reaction time and information flow to all parties involved in school shootings.
Are there ways to improve electronic medical record production and dissemination that captures important patient information while in-creasing protection for them re: later criminalization?
Can we start thinking about guns as an addiction and work on addict communities.
Dozens of gun lobbyists and NRA is probably most liberal as they support universal background checks. How do we make the NRA more stronger and others weaker to push for common sense laws
Hack manhood and violence, disrupt community violence with violent men behind bars who make agreements to stop their violence and return to society as fathers, breadwinners instead of re-offending or becoming victims of violence themselves. Call your state rep to support budget amendment #54.
Receiving adequate funding to effectively address the problem.
The public health workforce has not done the kind of research they need to on the cultural shift in attitude toward violence.
Appendix I: Challenges Pitched to Improve Gun Violence Prevention Below are challenges identified by speakers, mentors and participants at the Gun Violence Prevention Challenge Summit and Hackathon. They are transcribed as submitted to CAMTech.
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Challenges Pitched by Participants (continued)
We need to understand that the answer lies in innovation, not taking something away that already exists.
The biggest challenge is stopping these young kids from shooting each other on the street.
There are too many guns in the hands of young kids.
We should not talk about gun violence like it is a criminal justice issue, yet we do.
There are too many guns.
There is a lack of background checks.
There is a lack of available mental health services.
We need to provide children with positive opportunities to engage in and activities to look forward to.
Locking the kids/perpetrators in jail is not the solution, yet we are treating it as one.
There is a lack of regulation about the “gun flow.”
The kids that endure difficult childhoods have nothing to look forward to. If they have been in jail and they are released, there is “not much to live for.”
There is a lack of infrastructure and support programs to help kids once released from juvenile detention/jail.
There is a lack of trust between the police and kids.
Kids view police as the “bad guys.”
The existence of gangs leads to gun violence.
The police need to “police” themselves.
We are focusing too much on homocides, and should focus our efforts on suicides.
Suicides are often attempted on impulse; it is often within a matter of minutes/seconds that the decision is made.
Gun owners and leaders in that community are too often looked at as solely “bad guys.” This needs to change.
MA does not have a meaningful mechanism for when a licensed gun owner is at an increased risk of committing gun violence.
There is too much stress, and exposure to stress becomes toxic.
Data collection on the new gun technology is a problem.
There is no tracking for guns involved in suicides.
There is a lack of publication about shootings.
There is a lack of data about unintentional firearm shootings.
Vital stats underestimate gun-related child fatalaties and overestimates adult fatalities.
Gun trainers do not talk about “guns and children” and a large minority do not talk about “gun storage.”
Parents incorrectly believe children do not know where the guns are stored and believe that their children have not played with the gun.
US gun policy provides unlimited access to guns without government detection
Current policy involves increasing fear, gun sales, and making law enforcement the enemy of gun rights.
The gun lobby has immunity, so they cannot be sued.
We need to create more points of contact for people seeking a gun license.
We have allowed caste systems to exist in America and weapons are used to enforce them.
In prison, violence is necessary for survival.
We need to make a larger investment in education.
The biggest problem is the flow of illegal guns over the borders and into the city.
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Category Description of Category
Public Health, Clinical, or Social Impact Need
Focuses on a significant unaddressed public health, clinical, and/or social impact need. This innovation demonstrates potential for addressing a significant component of the identified need.
Clear Problem Statement Clear understanding of the problem statement; well-dissected problem statement.
Technology, Communication Strategy, and/or Community Resilience Innovation
Offers new and creative process, communication strategy, or technology solution (better/faster/cheaper). Provides convincing a rationale for why this unique approach has potential to work (if not already devel-oped). Addresses significant process or technical issues relevant for users and implementation setting.
Sustainable Business Model & Plan Moving Forward
Identifies clear model to build and sustain business strategy. Is it feasible to partner with organizations to disseminate technology/process. Clear plan for the next 60 days - what does the team intend to do?
Team Brings cross-disciplinary expertise in technology development, clinical medicine, social sciences, business/implementation, and/or other relevant skill sets. Incorporates end-user input/feedback .
Pitch Demonstrates the prototype or solution effectively. Clearly articulates the communication strategy, the problem, or the process the technology proposes to address.
Apendix II: Judging Criteria
Below are the criteria judges used at the Gun Violence Prevention Hack-a-thon and Demo Day to evaluate pitches and innovations, using a scale of 1-20.
