Matthew Miller All Experts

Professor of Health Sciences and Epidemiology

Expertise

firearm violence
injury and violence prevention
public health approaches to preventing suicide

Contact

ma.miller@neu.edu

617.373.2087

Matthew Miller In the Media

Digital Trends

Amazon might be using Alexa to send you targeted ads
The Crime Report

Women, Guns and Suicide
San Francisco Chronicle

Women in homes with handguns are at 50% higher risk for suicide, study finds
The Sacramento Bee

Women 50% more likely to die by suicide if they live with handgun owner, study finds
The Hill

The number of teens who report carrying handguns has spiked, study says
Christian Science Monitor

Gun sales: More diverse buyers shift firearm culture
Post and Courier

5.1M Americans just bought their first gun. How to keep their families safe.
The Economist

Gun-ownership in America is diversifying, because of safety fears
Fortune

Airport security confiscated 5,700 firearms in 2021, the most ever
The Telegraph

As gun ownership rose during the pandemic, take a look at Illinois’ numbers

Matthew Miller for Northeastern

The research is clear: White people are not more likely than Black people to be killed by police.

When President Donald Trump responded to a question about Black people who have died at the hands of U.S. law enforcement by focusing his attention on white victims, he was engaging in a “grotesque” misdirection, says Matt Miller, a Northeastern professor who studies gun violence. “Black people are more likely to be killed per capita by law enforcement than are white people,” Miller says.
- by Ian Thomsen July 16, 2020
Here’s why guns increase the risk of suicide–especially in stressful times

Handgun owners are almost four times more likely to die by suicide than people who don’t have guns, according to research by Matt Miller, professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern.
- by Ian Thomsen July 6, 2020
1,000 people in the US die every year in police shootings. Who are they?

“It makes you want to think about ways to help everybody reduce the number,” says Northeastern professor Matt Miller, whose new data-driven research shows that African-Americans and Hispanics are among those at greater risk of being fatally shot by police.
- by Ian Thomsen April 16, 2020
How you store your guns matters. It could save lives.

A modest increase in the number of people who store firearms in their homes safely could help to save the lives of hundreds of children each year, according to a new study conducted by Northeastern professor Matthew Miller. “What we don’t know,” he says, “is how to appeal to parents’ desire to protect their children in a way that gets them to store guns more safely.”
- by Khalida Sarwari May 13, 2019
Does having a gun at home really make you safer?

Northeastern professor Matthew Miller is one of the nation’s leading researchers of gun violence. In his previous career, he was on the front lines of another life-and-death battleground.
- by Ian Thomsen February 13, 2019
Clearing up misconceptions about gun violence could make suicide attempts less deadly, study says

There are roughly twice as many suicides as homicides in the United States every year, and more than half of them involve guns. According to a new study by Matthew Miller, a Northeastern professor of health sciences, most people have no idea that suicide is the most common type of violent death.
- by Laura Castañón November 1, 2018
Do more guns lead to more fatal police shootings?

A new study by researchers from Northeastern and Harvard examines the correlation between gun laws and shootings by police officers.
- by Ian Thomsen October 26, 2018
Study finds 3M Americans carry a loaded handgun daily

The study was the first of its kind in more than 20 years to assess why and how often gun owners carry their loaded firearms.
- by Allie Nicodemo October 19, 2017
New study finds 1 in 5 US gun owners obtained firearm without background check

The national survey, which was led by Northeastern professor Matthew Miller and his colleagues at Harvard, also found that the share of gun owners who acquired firearms via private sale in the past two years without background checks was significantly larger in states without laws regulating such purchases.
- by Greg St. Martin January 5, 2017
Study: 70M more firearms added to US gun stock over past 20 years

The estimated number of privately-owned guns in the U.S. grew to approximately 265 million between 1994 and 2015, with the majority of those new guns being handguns, according to a comprehensive national survey co-led by Northeastern. Owners also now cite protection as a primary reason of ownership.
- by Greg St. Martin September 26, 2016

Matthew Miller In the Media

Digital Trends

The Crime Report

San Francisco Chronicle

The Sacramento Bee

The Hill

Christian Science Monitor

Post and Courier

The Economist

Fortune

The Telegraph

Matthew Miller for Northeastern

The research is clear: White people are not more likely than Black people to be killed by police.

Here’s why guns increase the risk of suicide–especially in stressful times

1,000 people in the US die every year in police shootings. Who are they?

How you store your guns matters. It could save lives.

Does having a gun at home really make you safer?

Clearing up misconceptions about gun violence could make suicide attempts less deadly, study says

Do more guns lead to more fatal police shootings?

Study finds 3M Americans carry a loaded handgun daily

New study finds 1 in 5 US gun owners obtained firearm without background check

Study: 70M more firearms added to US gun stock over past 20 years

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