Final doctoral thesis submitted!! Defense incoming..👩🏫
Deanna Giraldi, MPH
@deannagiraldi.bsky.social
PhDing @DSPI_Oxford 📚| Health Policy MPH @YaleSPH 🩺 | survivorship x trauma x gun violence x qualitative researcher | opinions are my own 🌱
New research led by @deannagiraldi.bsky.social finds that impacts of gun violence extend far beyond dominant news statistics. The review analyses 25 years of literature involving survivors, witnesses & their communities. More: dspi.web.ox.ac.uk/article/impa... Full report: doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
🧡 New (open access) research alert: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... “We can endure suffering but not meaninglessness”: Identity, meaning-making, and community in online firearm violence survivor networks
How do people cope after gun violence exposure? New research helps us understand the role of online peer support ⬇️ This study from DPhil student Deanna Giraldi aims to understand how survivors of firearm violence engage with & make meaning through online survivor networks. 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
“We can endure suffering but not meaninglessness”: Identity, meaning-making, and community in online firearm violence survivor networks
This study examines how survivors of firearm violence engage with and make meaning through online survivor networks as part of their efforts to naviga…
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Quantitative research without a qualitative layer will always miss what matters most, how these experiences actually feel and play out in people’s lives beyond the therapy or assessment room.
Office of the weekend. Thankful for this life & these opportunities ☀️
Yesterday was the first day of my last term as a (PhD) student! 📚
In this policy brief, @deannagiraldi.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk) breaks down her recent study on how survivors of gun violence use online communities to process trauma, rebuild identity, and connect with others who share similar experiences. Learn more: scholars.org/contribution...
🧡 New research brief: scholars.org/contribution... "While [networks] can empower collective action, they can also create subtle expectations about how survivors should respond to trauma." Based on: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... #PublicHealth #GunViolence #Survivors
How Gun Violence Survivors Navigate the Aftermath through Online Communities
Gun violence can leave deep, lasting effects that go far beyond the immediate injury or loss. Survivors often struggle with emotional pain, social isolation, and practical challenges, but support isn’...
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The astronomical start of spring is here 🌸🌼 📷 Instagram | ObservingOxford, UmairAtOxford, Magdalen College & Judy.Martin46 #SpringEquinox
If you haven’t watched “All the Empty Rooms” yet, you should. Absolutely heartbreaking but a reminder to everyone that every gun violence tragedy & headline & statistic is a person with a family and community behind them 😞
30 years after the #Dunblane mass shooting, we honor the lives taken and remind ourselves that meaningful change is possible when communities and government act together.
On April 9th, I'll be presenting at OnTarget (@uconnarms.bsky.social & @yalesph.bsky.social) on addressing psychosocial and physical harms in the aftermath of firearm violence while amplifying experiences of survivorship. Register here: events.uconn.edu/arms-center/...
UConn ARMS & YSPH On Target Seminar Series: Featuring Deanna Giraldi
ARMS is excited for the next session of “On Target”, a virtual research seminar intended to bring together gun violence prevention researchers.
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🧡 New (open access) research alert: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss... “We can endure suffering but not meaninglessness”: Identity, meaning-making, and community in online firearm violence survivor networks
🚨 New research alert! 🚨 I’m excited to share my first solo paper from my doctoral research on how survivors of firearm violence engage with online survivor networks. A thread 🧵👇
Lecturing on injury prevention and the Haddon Matrix this morning 👩🏻🏫
“Survivors have always been at the center of my work because we live with the consequences long after the headlines fade... If you don’t listen to the people who’ve been harmed, you can’t truly understand the problem—or be a part of the solution.”
Gun Violence Survivor Oronde McClain Finds Purpose at PCOM
Mental Health Counseling student Oronde McClain (MS ’27) turns lived experience into advocacy, supporting gun violence survivors through PCOM’s SHELTER program.
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First day of a new academic term today! 📚 Today’s agenda: 👩🏻💻 teaching fellow for a masters course on preventing interpersonal violence ✍🏼 a few meetings for a UK civil service report I’m in charge of drafting 👩🏻🏫 lecture on international organizations roles in democracy 🍽️ PhD dinner with UK MPs
Making Christmas lasagna from scratch (& 251 little meatballs) with nonna’s recipe! 🎄
Always a magical Christmas in NYC ❤️ [Bryant Park Christmas market with my parents 🥰]
Thrilled to share that I’ve been selected as a 2026 BRIDGS Emergent Scholar Fellow! BRIDGS (Bringing Research and Innovation into the Debate on Guns in Society) Initiative advances empirically driven, interdisciplinary research on the multifaceted role of guns in society.
I’ve felt so incredibly heavy during this week’s news cycle
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12... This is very much *not* “all we can do.” Every single shooting is, at its root, a policy decision.
🚨New Paper Alert from #NJGVRC "Preventing and mitigating fraudulent research participants in online qualitative violence and injury prevention research." #NJGVRC PI: Devon Ziminski 📚Read more here ➡️ ow.ly/zjq050XA3ZU
📚 Academia Wrapped 2025 !!! - Papers downloaded: - Papers read (subset of above): - Submissions: - Desk Rejects: - Revisions: - Publications: - Days with head in hands watching the fall of the U.S. gov:
Register for SAVIR's upcoming Methods Session on 1/29/26: "From Genocide to Gun Violence: Adapting Rwandan Reconciliation Education for US Violence Prevention" featuring professionals from the Medical College of Wisconsin. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
