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Betsy Ladyzhets spoke to Melissa Stockwell, a pediatrician and public health researcher at Columbia University who was one of the lead authors on the study and helps lead RECOVER’s pediatric research.

The study was designed to provide more comprehensive data about homicide rates among Black women, said Bernadine Waller, the paper’s lead author and a research fellow at Columbia University.

“To find that Black women were murdered at a rate of six times that of white women was really pretty shocking,” says lead study author Bernadine Waller, a research fellow at Columbia University.