Addressing the Childhood Asthma Crisis in Harlem: The Harlem Childrens Zone Asthma Initiative
Stephen W. Nicholas, MD,
Betina Jean-Louis, PhD,
Benjamin Ortiz, MD,
Mary Northridge, PhD, MPH,
Katherine Shoemaker, MPP,
Roger Vaughan, DrPH, MS,
Michaela Rome, PhD,
Geoffrey Canada, MEd and
Vincent Hutchinson, MD For The Harlem Childrens Zone Asthma Initiative
Stephen W. Nicholas, Benjamin Ortiz, and Vincent Hutchinson are with the Department of Pediatrics, Harlem Hospital Center/Columbia University, New York, NY; Betina Jean-Louis, Michaela Rome, Katherine Shoemaker, and Geoffrey Canada are with the Harlem Childrens Zone, Inc., New York; Mary Northridge and Roger Vaughan are with the Harlem Health Promotion Center, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York.

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FIGURE 1— The Harlem Childrens Zone Asthma Initiative integrates new services and community-based collaborations with existing organizational infrastructures.
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