Interdisciplinary Research Leaders Cohort Six - 2021

The Foundation's Change Leadership Program was designed to support the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Leadership for Better Health's four national program centers, the cross-program Fall Leadership Institute, and the RWJF Coordinating Center for the change leadership programs authorization.Further, the Foundation's Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program seeks teams of researchers and community members who are committed to working together to produce community-relevant, action-oriented research to improve health and well-being.This grant supports the participant's engagement in the Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program (the 'program'). Over the course of the three-year program, the participant will have the opportunity for leadership training, exploring methods for conducting cutting-edge research, receiving mentoring, and networking--all to better effect change and become part of the next generation of research leaders in population health and health equity.During the program, the participant is expected to spend approximately one day a week on program-related activities, including, but not limited to, participating in training, attending meetings, working with a mentor, performing research, and networking. As part of a team, the participant will focus their effort on the research project described below: This IRL team will use a mixed-methods approach, to explore: (1) what barriers exist for survivors and family members to access victim compensation after a firearm related injury; and (2) explore how victim compensation can be expanded as a form of reparations for the state's failure to protect families against firearm violence. The IRL team plans to present findings from this research to the State Attorney General to ensure access to victim compensation is improved for all communities affected by firearm violence who have been denied such access in the past.