Health equity has always been a passion for Eileen Wang, M.D., M.P.H., allergist and immunologist at National Jewish Health. This passion motivated her to partner with Jennifer McCullough, M.S.Ed., to develop a program to help enable students at Morgridge Academy to self-manage their asthma.
Wang and McCullough recently learned they will receive the Community Engagement Partnership Grant from the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI), which will fund the pilot study for their new program. The program aims to empower the students and help them build self-efficacy.
Morgridge Academy is a day school on the National Jewish Health campus for children in kindergarten through eighth grade diagnosed with chronic diseases. Seventy-three percent of Morgridge students have asthma. And many have multiple serious, chronic health conditions, which are difficult to manage in a typical school setting. The students in the school are disproportionately impacted by poverty, structural racism, and severe disease…
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