Innovation in Asthma Research


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  • As ethnographers, we are familiar with origin stories, and The Asthma Files possesses its own. Mike Fortun and Kim Fortun first envisioned The Asthma Files while participating in an NIH-funded collaborative effort (led by health policy researcher Alexandra Shields, director of the Center for Genetics, Health Disparities and Vulnerable Populations at Harvard) to develop gene-environment interaction research responsive to health disparities, using asthma as a case study. A key event in this collaborative effort was a June 2006 workshop at Harvard brought together diverse researchers to consider possibilities and challenges. A key goal was to identify genetic study designs that incorporated sound environmental indicators.

Innovation in Asthma Research: Using Ethnography to Study a Global Health Problem (2 of 3)

Innovation in Asthma Research: Using Ethnography to Study a Global Health Problem (2 of 3)

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Innovation in Asthma Research: Using Ethnography to Study a Global Health Problem (3 of 3)

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