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.
Lundy Braun received her PhD from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1982.
[3] She wrote Breathing Race Into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer From Plantation to Genetics (2014), which looked at the history of correcting for race in spirometers, and for which she received the Ludwik Fleck Prize in 2018.
On August 9, 2024, at the age of 77, she was killed after being struck by an automobile while walking near her home.