Angela Sy

Angela Sy is an Associate Professor at the John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii. She works on NIH and CDC projects to reduce health disparities among Asian and Pacific Islanders and to diversity the biomedical research workforce. She is a Co-Investigator of NIH funded projects with Pacific Islander and Filipino communities: Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations initiative P30 Puipuia le Ola: Increasing reach and uptake of COVID-19 testing among Pacific Islanders in Hawaii and Guam and Community Outreach Core U54 Pacific Island Partnership for Cancer Health Equity. She serves as an Associate Program Director of NIH infrastructure and training grants (U54, T34, T37). At the faculty level, she evaluates programs within the UH and across partnering institutions to promote the research and academic careers of Indigenous and Pacific People (e.g., Native Hawaiian, Filipino) faculty and other groups who are underrepresented in academia. At the student level, she is involved in initiatives to promote diversity of students in STEM and biomedical research including providing research training for racially/ethnically, geographically, and economically underrepresented students. She has served as the Evaluator of the CDC Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health in the US Affiliated Pacific Islands. Her publications include research capacity building, cancer prevention with Filipino and Pacific Islander communities, and prevention of other non-communicable diseases among Asians and Pacific Islanders. Angela received a Doctor of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She immigrated with her parents from the Philippines to Hawaii where she resides.