; (2) developing public health interventions and perspectives for eliminating deaths, injury, trauma, and negative mental health effects from police presence and interactions, including police brutality and violence; and (3) ensuring comprehensive data collection, analysis, and reporting regarding police violence and misconduct in consultation with the Department of Justice and independent researchers. (c) Functions Under the program under subsection (a), the Center shall— (1) summarize and enhance the knowledge of the distribution, status, and characteristics of law enforcement-related death, trauma, and injury; (2) conduct research and prepare, with the assistance of State public health departments— (A) statistics on law enforcement-related death, injury, and brutality; (B) studies of the factors, including legal, socioeconomic, discrimination, and other factors that correlate with or influence police brutality; (C) public information about uses of force by law enforcement, including police brutality and violence, for the practical use of the public health community, including publications that synthesize information relevant to the national goal of understanding police violence and methods for its control; (D) information to identify socioeconomic groups, communities, and geographic areas in need of study, and a strategic plan for research necessary to comprehend the extent and nature of police uses of force by law enforcement, including police brutality and violence, and determine what options exist to reduce or eradicate death and injury that result; and (E) best practices in police violence prevention in other countries; (3) award grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements to provide for the conduct of epidemiologic research on uses of force by law enforcement, including police brutality and violence, by Federal, State, local, and private agencies, institutions, organizations, and individuals