Philip Alpers
Professor
Public Health
University of Sydney
Australia
Biography
Philip Alpers is founding director of GunPolicy.org, a global project of the Sydney School of Public Health which compares armed violence, firearm injury prevention and gun law across 350 jurisdictions world-wide. Accredited to the United Nations small arms Programme of Action since 2001, he participates in the UN process as a member of the Australian government delegation. Philip Alpers is recognised among the ‘Top 100: The most influential people in armed violence reduction’ compiled by the peak international NGO in this field. Some of his recent research is available here. His qualifications are discussed here.
Research Interest
Firearm injury prevention, firearm-related suicide, unintentional gun death and injury, armed violence, guns in family violence, firearm trafficking, curbing the proliferation of small arms, the impact of small arms on sustainable development, post-conflict disarmament, weapon collection and destruction, regulation of firearms, licensing and registration, enforcement of gun laws, ammunition controls, firearm and ammunition marking and tracing.
Publications
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Dudley, M., Rosen, A., Alpers, P., Peters, R. (2016). The Port Arthur massacre and the National Firearms agreement: 20 years on, what are the lessons? Medical Journal of Australia, 204(10), 381-383.
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Chapman, S., Alpers, P., Agho, K., Jones, M. (2015). Australia's 1996 gun law reforms: Faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings. Injury Prevention, 21(5), 355-362.
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Chapman, S., Alpers, P., Jones, M. (2016). Association between gun law reforms and Intentional Firearm Deaths in Australia, 1979-2013. JAMA, 316(3), 291-299.
