Welcome to our blog series, “Meet the AAPCHO Team,” where you’ll have a chance to get to know our staff! Meet Julia Liu, AAPCHO’s Research Assistant, as she answers some questions.
What’s your role at AAPCHO?
I am the research assistant. I help manage various projects and help with cross-program collaboration on the data side such as data collection and implementation, and disseminating data into reports.
Who are Three Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander Health Champions that you think people should know about?
Our structural environment and generational trauma have been structured in a way where we had…
Welcome to our blog series, “Meet the AAPCHO Team,” where you’ll have a chance to get to know our staff! Meet two of our summer interns, Flora Liao, Training and Technical Assistance Intern, and Tiffany Hirokawa, Infectious Diseases Intern, as they answer a few questions!
Flora Liao
How did you hear about AAPCHO?
I first heard about AAPCHO through Health Career Connection (HCC), a national nonprofit that provides undergraduates and recent graduates the opportunity to pursue healthcare and public health careers. Through HCC, I interned with AAPCHO as the Training and Technical Assistance Intern.
Who is an Asian American, Native Hawaiian, or…
By Kristine Cecile Alarcon, MPH
Community health centers (CHCs) provide care to over 29 million people in the United States including over 1.2 million Asian Americans (AAs), Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (NH/PIs). AAPCHO member health centers and other CHCs across the country provide primary care, dental, and behavioral health services to the most vulnerable in our communities, serving primarily low-income and uninsured patients who would otherwise not get the care that they need. …
Welcome to our blog series, “Meet the AAPCHO Team,” where you’ll have a chance to get to know our staff! Meet two of our summer interns, Reanna Felix, Policy Intern, and Sarah Dang, Digital Communications Intern, as they answer a few questions!
Reanna Felix
How did you hear about AAPCHO?
I was introduced to AAPCHO as part of the US-Asia Institute’s IMPACT! Program, which is a professional development program that introduces Filipino-American college students to roles and responsibilities in becoming engaged in their community and beyond. …
By Pearl Marumoto
An island girl
Living in an island called Pristine Paradise, Palau is surrounded with beautiful vibrant colors of green and blue hues that just take your breath away. We are people who have been blessed and enriched with land and ocean beauty and living abundance. We live in a colorful and vibrant culture that has sustained our identity since the beginning of time. As Palauans we know how to laugh, sing, dance, grieve, and celebrate life and death in harmony with our environments.
Being Fragile
Being an isolated island, urbanization has found its way into our lives and have challenged our environments…
To commemorate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we are highlighting #AANHPIhealth Heroes — individuals who are committed to improving the health of Asian Americans (AAs), Native Hawaiians (NHs), and Pacific Islanders (PIs). These heroes have made great strides to ensure that AA and NHPI communities have better access to affordable, high quality, and culturally and linguistically proficient health care that they need and deserve.
Meet this year’s #AANHPIhealth Heroes! Last year’s heroes can be found here.
Pearl Marumoto
By Sakura Miyazaki, MPA(c)
Nutritious meals are essential to maintaining a healthy, well-balanced life. Eating healthy is one way to prevent many chronic diseases and some cancers.
Unfortunately, Asian Americans (AAs), Native Hawaiians (NHs), and Pacific Islanders (PIs) are disproportionately impacted by specific chronic diseases. In a recent Uniform Data System analysis, AAPCHO found that 37% of NH health center patients and 38% of PI patients have uncontrolled diabetes, and 39% of NH patients and 37% of PI patients have hypertension. When uncontrolled diabetes data is disaggregated, Filipinos/as/xs, South Asians, and Hmongs, have higher rates of diabetes compared to other…
Welcome to our blog series, “Meet the AAPCHO Team,” where you’ll have a chance to get to know our staff! Meet Kristine Cecile Alarcon, MPH, who was recently promoted to Associate Manager, Communications and Engagement, as she answers a few questions!
Read Kristine’s last Meet the Team highlight here.
What are you most excited about in your new role?
In my new role as an Associate Manager, Communications and Engagement, I’m excited about creating new multimedia and interactive stories and assets for AAPCHO, our members, and for our collaborations with partners in the future.
What is one way you will…
By Kristina Canale, MPH/MA
Nutritious meals are essential to maintaining a healthy, well-balanced life. Eating healthy is one way to prevent many chronic diseases and some cancers.
Unfortunately, Asian Americans (AAs), Native Hawaiians (NHs), and Pacific Islanders (PIs) are disproportionately impacted by specific chronic diseases. In a recent Uniform Data System analysis, AAPCHO found that 37% of NH health center patients and 38% of PI patients have uncontrolled diabetes, and 39% of NH patients and 37% of PI patients have hypertension. When uncontrolled diabetes data is disaggregated, Filipinos/as/xs, South Asians, and Hmongs, have higher rates of diabetes compared to other…
By Kristine Cecile Alarcon, MPH
Nutritious meals are essential to maintaining a healthy, well-balanced life. Eating healthy is one way to prevent many chronic diseases and some cancers.
Unfortunately, Asian Americans (AAs), Native Hawaiians (NHs), and Pacific Islanders (PIs) are disproportionately impacted by specific chronic diseases. In a recent Uniform Data System analysis, AAPCHO found that 37% of NH health center patients and 38% of PI patients have uncontrolled diabetes, and 39% of NH patients and 37% of PI patients have hypertension. When uncontrolled diabetes data is disaggregated, Filipinos/as/xs, South Asians, and Hmongs, have higher rates of diabetes compared to…
