- The Honorable Patty Murray
Chair
Committee on Appropriations
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510 - The Honorable Susan Collins
Vice Chair
Committee on Appropriations
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510 - The Honorable Kay Granger
Chair
Committee on Appropriations
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20510 - The Honorable Rosa DeLauro
Ranking Member
Committee on Appropriations
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Chair Murray, Vice Chair Collins, Chair Granger, and Ranking Member DeLauro:
As you consider appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, the undesigned 434 national, state, and local medical, public health, and research organizations write to ask you to provide $35 million for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), $25 million for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and $1 million for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to conduct public health research into firearm morbidity and mortality prevention. We are grateful to Congress for providing $12.5 million for the CDC and $12.5 million for the NIH in FY 2024 and encourage Congress to sustain and build on this funding in FY 2025. We also encourage Congress to explore opportunities for building out and further supporting this research at all other appropriate agencies, to ensure that federally funded research can explore the full scope of his public health issue. A rigorous 2021 report estimated that the federal government will need to spend approximately $100 million per year to fully fund a comprehensive research agenda on reducing gun violence.
Click here to read the full Neurosurgery Supports Gun Violence Prevention Research Funding.
