Lundy Braun Explained

Lundy Braun
Death Date:August 9th 2024
Death Place:Rhode Island, US
Education:Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Occupation:Pathologist
Profession:Professor Emerita
Work Institutions:Brown University
Research Field:
Prizes:Ludwik Fleck Prize (2018)

Lundy Braun was a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and Africana studies at Brown University, United States, who researched history of racial health disparities. She wrote Breathing Race Into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer From Plantation to Genetics (2014), which looks at the history of correcting for race in spirometers, and for which she received the Ludwik Fleck Prize in 2018.

Career

Lundy Braun received her PhD from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1982.[1]

Braun studied differences in health relating to race, and was professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and Africana studies. Her reviews of research around algorithms using race adjustments found that race is not often defined, and she raised the question of the role of race in medicine.[2] Her research paper "Defining race/ethnicity and explaining difference in research studies on lung function", published in the European Respiratory Journal in 2012, looked at almost 100 years of research pertaining to lung disease.[3]

She wrote (2014), which looked at the history of correcting for race in spirometers, and for which she received the Ludwik Fleck Prize in 2018.[4] [5] [6] [7]

In 2023, she retired and became professor emerita. On August 9, 2024, at the age of 77, she was killed after being struck by an automobile while walking near her home.[8]

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Race & Public Health The Office of the Provost Brown University . www.brown.edu . 18 April 2021.
  2. Web site: Brown . Spirometry: A built-in 'correction' for race? . news.brown.edu . 18 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210305073014/https://news.brown.edu/articles/2013/06/spirometers . 5 March 2021 . en.
  3. Web site: Chowkwanyun . Merlin . Race Is Not Biology . The Atlantic . 18 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210330102812if_/https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/05/race-is-not-biology/276174/ . 30 March 2021 . en . 23 May 2013.
  4. Kahn . Jonathan. Jonathan Kahn. Review of Lundy Braun, Breathing Race Into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer From Plantation to Genetics . The American Journal of Bioethics . 1 February 2015 . 15 . 2 . W5–W6 . 10.1080/15265161.2014.990586 . 71215823. 1526-5161.
  5. Book: Braun . Lundy . Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics . 2014 . University of Minnesota Press. 10.5749/j.ctt5vkbdf . 9780816683574 .
  6. Web site: Lundy Braun wins book award Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Brown University . www.brown.edu . 18 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190127055143/https://www.brown.edu/academics/biomed/departments/pathology/news/2018/05/lundy-braun-wins-book-award. 27 January 2019.
  7. Web site: Lundy Braun . Society for Social Studies of Science . 18 April 2021.
  8. Web site: Brown University Professor Emerita dedicated life to researching race and medicine . 13 August 2024. WJAR10.

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