Fuller Elizabeth J. author Columbia University. National Center for Disaster Preparedness Abramson David M. author Columbia University. Sociomedical Sciences Sury Jonathan author Columbia University. National Center for Disaster Preparedness Columbia University. National Center for Disaster Preparedness originator text Reports New York National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 2007 There is fairly consistent evidence that ethnic and minority communities have historically been more vulnerable to disasters, less trusting of public authority, and often so socially marginalized that it placed them in harm’s way. In an effort to explore some of these issues we conducted a series of community-based focus groups among selected ethnic communities in order to understand how perceptions of neighborhood life during a pandemic -- and community adaptation -- might vary across the city. We conducted the focus groups in six distinct New York City neighborhoods, each meant to represent a particular ethnic sub-group: Jamaican- Americans in Wakefield, Bronx; Chinese-Americans in Chinatown; African-Americans in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; Dominican-Americans in Washington Heights; Greek-Americans in Astoria, Queens; and South Indian-Americans in Flushing, Queens. Four of the focus groups were conducted in English, one was in Spanish, and one was in Mandarin, Chinese. Public health 2007-10 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14773 English NNC NNC 2012-09-26 10:42:58 -0400 2012-09-26 13:14:18 -0400 8781 eng