Submit Nominations for the Greenwald Family Award

Submissions for the inaugural Greenwald Family Award for Firearm Violence and Injury Prevention Research Excellence are due on July 31.

The annual $5000 (per paper) award will recognize one or two outstanding research papers on firearm violence and injury prevention. Winners of the 2024 Greenwald Award will be announced at the National Research Conference for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms.

Read more information on how to nominate a paper.

Eligibility: Nominated papers must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal after July 1, 2022. Papers from all academic disciplines are eligible. Papers must have a primary focus on U.S. firearm injury, firearm violence or their prevention and be written in English.

Selection Criteria: The research must:

1. Significantly advance understanding of the nature, causes or prevention of firearm violence or other firearm harms, and
2. Have already led to improvements, or be likely to lead to improvements, in policies or programs for reducing firearm-related harms in the U.S.

Awards will be made by an independent selection committee, supported by experienced researchers.

Nominations: Nominations will be accepted until July 31, 2024, and must be submitted by a person who is not an author on the nominated paper. No person may nominate more than two papers per award cycle.