Lundy Braun

Lundy Braun is professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and Africana studies at Brown University, United States, who researches 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.

Lundy Braun
EducationJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
OccupationPathologist
Medical career
ProfessionProfessor Emerita
InstitutionsBrown University
Research
AwardsLudwik Fleck Prize (2018)

Career

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

Braun studies differences in health relating to race, and is professor of pathology and laboratory medicine and Africana studies. Her reviews of research around algorithms using race adjustments have found that race is not often defined, and she raises 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 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.[4][5][6][7]

Selected publications
  • Braun, Lundy; Wolfgang, Melanie; Dickersin, Kay (1 January 2012). "Defining race/ethnicity and explaining difference in research studies on lung function". European Respiratory Journal. 41 (6): 1362–1370. doi:10.1183/09031936.00091612. ISSN 0903-1936. PMID 22878881. S2CID 3092122. (Co-author)
  • Braun, L. (2015). "Race, ethnicity and lung function: A brief history". Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy. 51 (4): 99–101. ISSN 1205-9838. PMC 4631137. PMID 26566381.
  • Braun, L. (24 October 2020). "Race Correction and Spirometry: Why History Matters". Chest. 159 (4): 1670–1675. doi:10.1016/j.chest.2020.10.046. ISSN 0012-3692. PMID 33263290.

References
  1. "Race & Public Health | The Office of the Provost | Brown University". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  2. Brown. "Spirometry: A built-in 'correction' for race?". news.brown.edu. Archived from the original on 5 March 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  3. Chowkwanyun, Merlin (23 May 2013). "Race Is Not Biology". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 30 March 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  4. Kahn, Jonathan (1 February 2015). "Review of Lundy Braun, Breathing Race Into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer From Plantation to Genetics". The American Journal of Bioethics. 15 (2): W5–W6. doi:10.1080/15265161.2014.990586. ISSN 1526-5161. S2CID 71215823.
  5. Braun, Lundy (2014). Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816683574. JSTOR 10.5749/j.ctt5vkbdf.
  6. "Lundy Braun wins book award | Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine | Brown University". www.brown.edu. Archived from the original on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  7. "Lundy Braun". Society for Social Studies of Science. Retrieved 18 April 2021.


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