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The Story of a Sleep Scientist [Audio Transcript]<\/strong>
\nBy: Katherine Ellen Foley<\/em><\/p>\n

Katherine Ellen Foley (KEF):<\/strong> In a busy world, our sleep is essential to our health and well-being. Sound sleep can be hard to come by, and it\u2019s important for doctors to be able to work with all of their patients to ensure they\u2019re getting rest they need to be healthy. However, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, until recently there has not been a focus on addressing sleep health disparities among different communities. Dr. Giradin Jean-Louis, a behavioral sleep scientist at New York University, is rectifying this problem: He studies disruption in sleep patterns in minorities, and the best ways to reach and serve them.<\/p>\n

Giradin Jean Louis:<\/strong> There\u2019s a little island called Haiti. I was born there, and I was raised there to the age of 17 when I migrated to New York. When I came here, I thought I was going to be an engineer. In fact I started \u2014 I was doing the prerequisites for my engineering courses \u2014 and then this great advisor of mine said to me, \u201cHey, you\u2019ve gotta take some electives.\u201d We though the books, we looked and looked, and the only thing that was available was something called \u201cSleep, lab techniques and dreams.\u201d That\u2019s what did it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m more of a behavioral sleep scientist. Our focus is primarily minority communities. What the Academy has done so far has been very generic \u2026 most of the information seems to be applicable to only whites. How do we know about this? We\u2019ve conducted a number of focus groups on minorities, Latinos and Blacks.<\/p>\n

When folks wearing a white coat say, \u201cI\u2019d like you to get a sleep test done\u201d \u2014 or anything, such as prostate cancer screening \u2014 they don\u2019t agree to participate. If the barber tells them, \u201cOh, I just did my screening [and] I think you should go too,\u201d they\u2019re gonna go. If the pastor says, \u201cI think all of my parishioners, all my congregates, should go get breast exams or prostate exams, or screening, rather,\u201d guess what happens? They are more likely to go. Why? Credibility.<\/p>\n

The guy or the gal in the white coat I\u2019ve only met you a couple of times. I don\u2019t know anything about you; you don\u2019t know anything about me. Maybe I\u2019ll go. In fact, sometimes they politely say they will go. But they don\u2019t really go. Pastors say they\u2019ll go, the barbers say they\u2019ll go, or the beauty stylist tells the ladies, \u201cI gotta go get tested\u201d? There\u2019s credibility. You\u2019ve been doing my hair for 15 years; if you think I should go, you know, I\u2019ll go. So we\u2019re using some of these venues because this is where they feel, \u201cI control the information flow; you\u2019re coming into my turf. And also, if you care enough to leave your comfort zone to here, I appreciate that.\u201d<\/p>\n

So we\u2019re developing our own brochures, our own materials for Latinos and Blacks. Additionally, we have a project now where we\u2019re developing a website to provide information that is tailored culturally and linguistically to Latinos and Blacks because that\u2019s what they told us. They said, in fact, if the information, they felt, was relatable to them \u2014 if they felt they were at risk \u2014 they\u2019ll actually get a sleep test done.<\/p>\n

To dispense with health disparities or to help reach health equity, we have determined that not only do we have to appreciate what the barriers are, but also develop programs to overcome them. The way we treat sleep apnea, hypertension, diabetes, HIV to some degree \u2026 lots of major breakthroughs have come out of this, we now know, to make sure we go into certain communities, make sure they\u2019re comfortable talking about certain things, and therefore they take their medications to do better.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also come to appreciate that when we train minority investigators \u2014 when they compare white and black scientists or community scientists or PhDs \u2014 we found that when minorities are trained in that program, they were more likely to practice in communities where it looked like people where they came from.<\/p>\n

So then our effort is twofold: Conduct health equity research to reduce disparities, but also to train minatory investigators to do this kind of work.<\/p>\n

KEF:<\/strong> This audio was produced by me, Katherine Foley, with help from Lydia Chain, Ivan Oransky, Shannon Hall and JoAnna Klein. Lauren Young conducted and recorded this interview. The music is by Podington Bear.<\/p>\n

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