This Is Our Lane

Healthcare Professionals Tackling Firearm Violence Using a Public Health Approach

We’ve mobilized thousands of health care professionals to use their voices and expertise to reduce firearm deaths and injuries, including through trainings, storytelling, research, and public education campaigns on safe firearm storage, suicide prevention, and more. Focused on nonpartisan solutions and taking action, not sides, we have blazed the trail for a public health approach to preventing America’s gun violence epidemic.

Kris Brown and Dr Roy Guerrero Uvalde pediatrician

Brady President Kris Brown and Uvalde pediatrician Dr. Roy Guerrero

Following a 2018 comment by the NRA that doctors should “stay in their lane” and had no business addressing firearm violence, Brady Chief Medical Officer, trauma surgeon, and gun violence survivor Dr. Joseph V. Sakran launched @ThisIsOurLane, a community of healthcare professionals dedicated to reducing firearm injuries and deaths.

@ThisIsOurLane sparked a grassroots movement, amplifying the voices of those who are on the frontlines of this preventable epidemic and inspiring a sea change in viewing gun violence as a public health issue.

Brady Board Chair and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Joseph Sakran on MSNBC

“Medical professionals have an opportunity to work beyond the bedside to protect the health of our communities, which is why I am honored Brady has elected me as the first physician, and survivor, to chair a major gun violence prevention organization.”

— Dr. Joseph Sakran, Brady Chief Medical Officer and founder of @ThisIsOurLane

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Healthcare Professionals Tackling Firearm Violence Using a Public Health Approach

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Led by trauma surgeon, and gun violence survivor Dr. Joseph Sakran

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