As a physician and a social epidemiologist, Neeta Thakur wants to find a way to better identify the asthma patients who would be most profoundly affected by social and environmental exposures. “I think it has become abundantly clear that complex diseases like asthma can’t simply be explained by studying just genetics or just social determinants,” says Thakur, who works with the UCSF Asthma Collaboratory.
