Philip Alpers

Philip Alpers is an adjunct associate professor and founding director of GunPolicy.org, a global nonpartisan project at the University of Sydney School of Public Health which compares armed violence, gun legislation, and injury prevention worldwide. A former senior fellow at the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Alpers is a widely published policy analyst on the effects of armed violence and gun regulation on public health and human rights. He is accredited to the United Nations Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons and currently designs and installs arms and ammunition control systems for state agencies across Africa and the Pacific.