MDA’s Board of Directors comprises experts from across the country with longstanding commitment and connection to the mission for the neuromuscular disease.
It’s gun violence in general that kills the most children, and the rate is steadily rising each year, as more kids are involved in gun-related accidents, suicides, and homicides. Firearms were the leading cause of death in kids age 1 and older for the first time in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available.