In the Summer of 2016, both Sinai Health System and America’s Urban Campus (AUC) began exploring deeper collaborative work on gun violence research in Chicago. Karen Teitelbaum, CEO of Sinai Health System, published an op-ed in Crain’s Chicago Business in July 2016 making the case for researchers at institutions across Chicago to come together around gun violence research, and Executive Committee members for America’s Urban Campus (AUC) were simultaneously exploring ways to foster collaborations for gun violence research. AUC member institutions and Sinai Health System held an initial meeting in the summer of 2016, and Sinai Urban Health Institute and researchers from several institutions of higher education launched the Chicago Gun Violence Research Collaborative (CGVRC).