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You are doing thesis research on the health of immigrant mothers in a neighborhood in a large city that has high poverty rates and high maternal mortality rates. You are trying to understand the challenges facing women’s health, especially during pregnancy, and how women have learned to cope with fewer resources in health care, nutrition, and other basic needs. You are working on a smaller piece of a larger project on health disparities in the community, under the funding and supervision of your thesis adviser, who is funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health. The county’s Department of Public Health plans to use your findings to advertise well-woman and prenatal care to women, but you’re finding that some of the women avoid the county’s help because they feel that it isn’t very sensitive to their cultural needs and traditions. You worry you’ll be viewed as someone trying to get them to take certain actions, rather than as a researcher independent of the government.