Thank you for highlighting this important disconnect. I'd like to think digital health and all of the new kinds of data could help us "see" populations and individuals differently. And a big thank you for your partnership and risk taking that made our Louisville work such a good illustration. "We" improved individuals asthma control all the while seeing the effects of air pollution on the population. Amazing stuff.
Hello! I was a graduate student in Louisville studying environmental biology when the Asthmapolis project was active. I was excited and awed by the possibility. It's interesting to read your post, with a fresh perspective all these years later. My own work on using starlings and sparrows as living Pb detectors got me a PhD, but didn't go much past that. We still use children instead. While I trained and worked for many years as a clinical laboratory director, I drifted into public health via the laboratory route and remain in public health today at a small, but mighty public health informatics consulting company. We are looking to find our way through the apparent current shift in focus from infectious to chronic disease, and how to focus on the systems and data needed to make measurable changes happen. I think it is through implementing concepts such as you discuss in this post that will move us forward. Would love to discuss more sometime.
Thank you for highlighting this important disconnect. I'd like to think digital health and all of the new kinds of data could help us "see" populations and individuals differently. And a big thank you for your partnership and risk taking that made our Louisville work such a good illustration. "We" improved individuals asthma control all the while seeing the effects of air pollution on the population. Amazing stuff.
Thanks for making that project happen, Ted. So glad we had the chance to do that work together!
Hello! I was a graduate student in Louisville studying environmental biology when the Asthmapolis project was active. I was excited and awed by the possibility. It's interesting to read your post, with a fresh perspective all these years later. My own work on using starlings and sparrows as living Pb detectors got me a PhD, but didn't go much past that. We still use children instead. While I trained and worked for many years as a clinical laboratory director, I drifted into public health via the laboratory route and remain in public health today at a small, but mighty public health informatics consulting company. We are looking to find our way through the apparent current shift in focus from infectious to chronic disease, and how to focus on the systems and data needed to make measurable changes happen. I think it is through implementing concepts such as you discuss in this post that will move us forward. Would love to discuss more sometime.
Bonny Lewis Van PhD, FADLM, HCLD(ABB)
Public Health Consulting, Director
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