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Karyn Feiden
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Police Encounters Sifting through data on police encounters and police violence uncovers who is most affected.
When gender, race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation are incorporated into research design, truths essential to the pursuit of equity are able to emerge. That’s why Gabriel Schwartz, PhD, who joins the Dornsife School of Public Health’s (DSPH) Department of Health Management and Policy as an assistant professor in the fall of 2023, and Jaquelyn Jahn, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements, and Population Health Equity at DSPH, conducted two first-of-their-kind analyses of police encounters and their often traumatic and sometimes deadly impact. By using disaggregated data, they were able to examine populations whose unique story might otherwise be lost. “Often our research and public understanding is shaped by what is happening ‘on average,’” explains Jahn. “What our articles try to do I L LU S T R AT I O N B Y I B R A H I M R AY I N TA K AT H