Lundy Braun
Professor:
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Africana Studies
Phone: 401-863-3308
Lundy_Braun@brown.edu
The overarching goal of my research is to examine the historical production of race in public health and medicine. I am particularly interested in the ways in which understandings of race shaped and were shaped by the development, application, and globalization of the technology of spirometry and why, with few exceptions, the practice of "race correction" has not been contested in pulmonary medicine. A related research project explores the relationship between scientific medicine and the historical production of invisibility of asbestos-related disease in South Africa. Related to this interest is my involvement in a collaborative project with U.S. and South African researchers and activists on asbestos diseases in South Africa.
Biography
Lundy Braun (Ph.D. 1982, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health) is an Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Africana Studies and a member of the Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies. Her current research focuses on: 1) the history of the global circulation of knowledge about race and lung capacity in the 19th and 20th centuries; 2) the socio-political and economic production of invisibility about occupational disease, especially asbestos-related diseases in South Africa; and 3) race, genomics, and health inequality. She has participated in national and international workshops on race, genetics, and health. During the academic year 2002-2003, she was a recipient of a Professional Development Award from the National Science Foundation, which she pursued as a Visiting Scholar at the History of Science Department, Harvard University. In 2003, she was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Public Health at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In addition to numerous teaching awards at Brown, including the Harriet W. Sheridan Award for Distinguished Contribution to Teaching and Learning, Braun has also been recognized for excellence in teaching of science to breast cancer activists. Courses include: General Pathology for medical students and Biological and Social Context of Disease, Race in Medicine and Public Health, Colonialism, Imperialism, Public Health in Africa: Past and Present, and Health Inequality in Historical Perspective for undergraduate students.
Interests
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Degrees
Ph.D., 1982 Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Awards
Dean's Excellence in Teaching Award, Brown University School of Medicine, 2001, 2002, 2004
Fulbright Senior Specialist Award, 2003
Harriet W. Sheridan Award for Distinguished Contribution to Teaching and
Learning, 2003
The Onyx Class of 2001 Award, Brown University, 2001
Profiles in Competence Award, Brown University School of Medicine, 2000
The Onyx Class of 1999 Award, Brown University, 1999
Faculty Teaching Award, Brown University Medical School, 1999
Award for Science Training of Breast Cancer Activists, National Breast Cancer Coalition - 1997
Gender Equity Award, American Medical Women's Association, Brown University chapter, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997
Society of Sigma Xi, 1994
Medical Faculty Teaching Award,1992
Mary Putnam-Jacobi Award, Brown University Women in Medicine, 1989
National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health, 1985-1987
Outstanding Student Research Award, Delta Omega National Honorary Public Health Society, Alpha Chapter, 1980
Affiliations
American Association for the History of Medicine
Society for the Social Studies of Science
American Public Health Association
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society
Society for the Social History of Medicine
Funded Research
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