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Emily Cowan is a recent graduate of NYU's School of Global Public Health with an MPH in Community Health Science and Practice. She's currently pursuing work in public health alternatives to criminal justice that challenge carceral models of accountability.

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Tackling the other public health pandemic—police violence

Emily Cowan by Emily Cowan August 27th, 2020March 18th, 2021

This story is part of a joint series by The Forge and Prism. Read the rest of the series—Organizing, Innovation, and Upheaval—here. We have all spent the bulk of this year at home, yet law enforcement has managed to kill more people from January 1 to June 30, 2020 than they did during that same period in the […]

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