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Improving Technology Assisted Recording of Asthma Control in Children (ITRACC)
The goal of this randomized clinical control trial is to determine whether a sensor enabled, clinically integrated, mobile health asthma program can improve overall asthma control and management among children with moderate-to-severe asthma.

Geographic Variability in Childhood Asthma Prevalence in Chicago
This highly-cited 2008 paper was the first to empirically demonstrate the tremendous geographic variability of childhood asthma prevalence in Chicago–which ranged from 0 to 44% by neighborhood.

The Impact of Student-Directed Videos on Community Asthma Knowledge (START Program)
The START (Student Asthma Research Team) intervention was an after-school program where students were educated about asthma, participatory research methods, and media production to:
- Identify neighborhood factors affecting their own asthma through photography and writing and
- Address these factors by producing public service announcements to raise public awareness.

Improving Community Asthma through a Student Media-Based Research Intervention (SMART Program)
SOAAR was funded by the American Lung Association to refine START by using mobile technology. The resulting intervention was called, “Student Media-based Asthma Research Team” (SMART) and was implemented at James Hedges Elementary in Back of the Yards and Beasley Elementary in Washington Park.

Student Media-Based Health Research Team (SMHRT)
SMHRT is a comprehensive curriculum that can be shared with educators, public health practitioners, and community members to be utilized in schools to help empower students to research and understand the health conditions that affect their communities.