Kara Zamora, PhD
Congratulations to Dr. Kara Zamora!
ARCH member Dr. Kara Zamora graduated from the joint PhD program in Medical Anthropology (UCSF/UC Berkeley) in December 2023!
News
Jane Jih, MD, MPH, MAS
Dr. Jane Jih Appointed to the Advisory Committee on Minority Health of the U.S. Office of Minority Health
ARCH Co-Director Dr. Jane Jih is starting a 4-year term as a member of the U.S. Office of Minority Health Advisory Committee on Minority Health, advising the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health on improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations.
Grants
The Collaborative Approach for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Research and Education (CARE 2.0) project has secured a $16.1 million 5-year grant from the NIH/NIA with ARCH member Dr. Van Ta Park as the lead Multiple Principal Investigator, alongside ARCH Co-Director Dr. Janice Tsoh as Multiple Principal Investigator and other ARCH members, Drs. Arnab Mukherjea and Oanh Meyer, as co-PIs.
Grace was awarded a Department of Education AANAPISI Grant. The grant is titled “Responsive Education for Access, Community, and Hope (REACH)”. The objective of the grant is to improve and expand the institution’s capacity to eliminate an equity gap in college access, persistence, and completion. Responsive Education for Access, Community, and Hope (REACH) is a comprehensive set of culturally responsive and equity-minded access, awareness, and financial literacy strategies designed to improve college access, persistence, and completion of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) and low-income (LI) students.
May Sudhinaraset received a NIH R01 grant to conduct a national sexual and reproductive health study among Asian immigrant women.
Publications
Kanaya coauthored a paper discussing the epidemiology of diabetes from the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) study.
Wang and several ARCH interns (Carmen Ma, Feng Ming Li and Angeline Truong) led a paper that examines patient-reported supportive cancer needs among Asian American cancer patients.
Young co-authored a commentary entitled “The Invisibility of Asian Americans in COVID-19 Data, Reporting and Relief.”
STATEMENT BY ARCH
Together, we remember:
- In Atlanta area: Hyun Jung Grant, age 51; Soon Park, age 74; Suncha Kim, age 69; Yong Yue, age 63; Xiaojie Tan, age 49; Daoyou Fen, age 44
- In the Bay Area: Pak Ho, age 75; Vicha Ratanapakdee, age 84
- In Arizona: Juanito Falcon, age 74
- Those killed by police: Christian Hall, age 19; Angelo Quinto, age 30