Americans express broad support for initiatives to train and equip first responders and the public to render first aid for bleeding control in mass casualty incidents. Large majorities also say they personally would be likely to give such aid – especially if training and supplies were available.

There are compunctions: Six in 10 or more cite the risk of causing additional pain or injury, being responsible for a bad outcome or exposure to disease as impediments to aiding trauma victims. Yet for many, the desire to help outweighs these concerns.

These results from a national survey for the Hartford Consensus are forthcoming in an article in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, written by Lenworth M. Jacobs, MD; Karyl J. Burns, RN, Ph.D.; Gary Langer; and Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Ph.D.

Dr. Jacobs leads the Hartford Consensus, a group of trauma surgeons and other concerned professionals formed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, in December 2012. The group seeks to enhance the survivability of intentional mass casualty events by improving emergency treatment of severe bleeding, one of the leading causes of death in trauma victims.

The survey was produced by Langer Research Associates; the original report is available here.

Gary Langer presented the results at the Hartford Consensus IV meeting on Jan. 8 in Dallas to participants including Kathryn Brinsfield, MD, Assistant Secretary, Health Affairs, of the Department of Homeland Security; Frank Butler, MD, Chairman of the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care at the U.S. Department of Defense Joint Trauma System; Richard Carmona, MD, former Surgeon General of the United States; William Fabbri, MD, Director of Emergency Medical Services for the Federal Bureau of Investigation; David Hoyt, MD, Executive Director of the American College of Surgeons; Andrew Warshaw, MD, immediate Past President of the American College of Surgeons; Jonathan Woodson, MD, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; and other leaders in the field.

Follow these links for the journal abstract, a news release by the American College of Surgeons and the proceedings of the Hartford Consensus IV. The survey has been reported by several health-related news outlets, including Reuters, U.S. News and World Report and Science Daily.

We’ve produced a detailed analysis using statistical modeling to examine the roots of support for Donald Trump in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and in a hypothetical matchup with Hillary Clinton. The piece, by our Senior Research Analyst Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, has received wide exposure on ABCNews.com – see it here – as well as pickup by a range of other media. Chad was interviewed on it today on WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show, here.

Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll covers the 2016 primaries, a Clinton vs. Trump matchup and views on Senate  hearings on a U.S. Supreme Court nomination. Our analyses have received as many as 5,000 shares on ABCNews.com and coverage across a range of news outlets, including Bloomberg, CNN Politics (here and here), MSNBC, CBS News, U.S. News & World Report, New York Times, Wall Street Journal,Huffington Post, New York Post, TIME, Washington Times (here and here), Seattle Times, Politico, The Hill (here, here and here), The Federalist and New Republic (here and here).

We’ve been analyzing presidential primary exit polls for ABC News in this political season, with ongoing election night live feeds and wrap-ups. See our final analysis Super Tuesday exit polls here and live coverage of the Democratic and Republican races here and here; our output on the South Carolina Democratic primary here and on the Nevada Republican caucuses here; our reporting on the Nevada Democratic caucuses and South Carolina Republican primary here, with live feeds from each here (NV-D) and here (SC-R) (and a follow-up report here); our New Hampshire coverage here and Iowa here. Individual reports have received as many as 4,000 shares on ABCNews.com.

We’re delighted to announce two staff changes at Langer Research Associates: the promotion of Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Ph.D., to the position of senior research analyst, and the addition of Sofi Sinozich to our staff as research associate.

An expert in statistical analysis, political and international research and survey methodology, Kiewiet de Jonge has taken a leading role in many of our recent projects, including work on consumer insights, health care and our coverage of public policy and election politics. In addition to his promotion at Langer Research, he recently was named an affiliated professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City, where he worked as an assistant professor of political science before joining us last summer.

Sinozich will graduate this spring from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and statistics. She has interned with us since September, with previous internships at the Pew Research Center last summer and the Bureau of Justice Statistics in summer 2014. In her time with us, Sinozich has produced detailed pre-field research, contributed to our analysis of consumer sentiment and exit polls, meticulously updated our data resources and contributed to questionnaire design.

Thanks and congratulations to Chad and Sofi alike!

A new national survey we’ve produced for ESPN looks at football fans’ attitudes on the 2016 Super Bowl, including views of quarterbacks Cam Newton and Peyton Manning and the Great Dabbing Debate. See the ESPN coverage here and the topline data report here.

Our most recent ABC News/Washington Post poll on the 2016 election has received wide pickup beyond ABC and the Post. Our analysis of the Republican contest has received 5,000 shares and more than 1,100 comments on ABCNews.com and coverage by Time, Politico, Fox News, The New York Post, the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Hill and Business Insider, a syndicator. Our piece on the Democratic race, with 3,000 shares and more than 500 comments on ABCNews.com, has been picked up by Politico, the International Business Times, TPM and columnist Charles Blow in The New York Times. And our coverage of expectations for the general election in November has more than 15,000 shares and 4,500 comments on ABCNews.com.

Our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll on the leading presidential candidates’ popularity received 3,000 shares and more than 2,300 comments on ABCNews.com, as well as pickup in Politico and in a piece by the columnist George Will that appeared in newspapers across the country, from the Bowling Green Daily News to the Montana Standard, the Topeka Capital-Journal and the Daily News of Faribault, in the beautiful Lake Country of Southern Minnesota.

Our newest ABC News/Washington Post poll continues our coverage of the 2016 election as well as examining opinions on domestic terrorism and gun rights in the wake of the San Bernadino attacks. Our most-followed story focused on Americans’ recent souring on assault weapons bans, with over 55,000 shares on ABCNews.com, nearly 1,000 comments and coverage in Breitbart, Politico, CNN, Slate, National Reviewand the Huffington Post, as well as of course, the Washington Post. Other pieces from the poll also received wide pickup, by organizations includingCBS, the New Yorker, Salon and the Boston Globe.

Gary Langer addressed the annual conference of the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, summarizing four years of statewide surveys for Blue Shield of California Foundation on the healthcare experiences of low-income Californians. The presentationfocused of data-driven strategies for safety net clinics to foster patient engagement, satisfaction and loyalty though key elements of primary care redesign, including connectedness, continuity, communication and engagement strategies to enhance patient-provider relationships.