To: Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and Dean Linda P. Fried
WE CAN'T BREATHE: A Demand from the Students of Mailman School of Public Health
We call on the leadership of the Mailman School of Public Health to issue a public statement regarding police brutality and the persistent failures of our justice system. We request a commitment to begin a campus-wide dialogue to address our institutional responsibility to act and an acknowledgement of these issues as a crucial public health problem.
Why is this important?
PLEASE PUT YOUR DEPARTMENT AND GRADUATION YEAR IN THE COMMENTS SECTION
We, as students of public health, feel outrage, frustration, anger, and sadness at the events that have unfolded over the past few weeks. The deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of police and the subsequent failure of grand juries to indict the officers responsible for these events is a justice issue that profoundly impacts and underlies the health of populations.
Because we are Mailman, we have power and responsibility.
We must all hold ourselves accountable to the Public Health Oath, knowing that “public health represents the collective actions necessary to protect the health of all people”. Silence from our respected institution is not acceptable.
Petition created by concerned Mailman students and endorsed by the Black and Latino Student Caucus (BLSC), and the Association for Justice and Health (AJAH).
We, as students of public health, feel outrage, frustration, anger, and sadness at the events that have unfolded over the past few weeks. The deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of police and the subsequent failure of grand juries to indict the officers responsible for these events is a justice issue that profoundly impacts and underlies the health of populations.
Because we are Mailman, we have power and responsibility.
We must all hold ourselves accountable to the Public Health Oath, knowing that “public health represents the collective actions necessary to protect the health of all people”. Silence from our respected institution is not acceptable.
Petition created by concerned Mailman students and endorsed by the Black and Latino Student Caucus (BLSC), and the Association for Justice and Health (AJAH).