Cultures, Collaboratives, and Capabilities: The Richness of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander CBPR

摘要

In 2010, I joined Public Health-Seattle & King County, as the Chief of Assessment, Policy Development, and Evaluation unit. One of my major responsibilities is to work with our epidemiologists and social scientists in providing the population- and community-level data that identify health needs, provide the basis for the allocation of resources for health programs and services, and catalyze policy and systems changes. Despite my previous advocacy work on Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) health with the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF), which included the constant voicing of the need to collect racial and ethnic data and to disaggregate racial and ethnic data when possible and shaping a national AA and NHPI health agenda on data and research, I was still taken aback at the lack of available data pertaining to AA and NHPI communities at our health department and other health departments across the country.