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Simona Kwon, DrPH, MPH

Congratulations to Dr. Simona Kwon, recipient of this year’s Jenkins Cancer Control Award!

Dr. Simona Kwon is a Professor in the Department of Population Health and Director of the Section for Health Equity in the Department of Population Health. She is also the Director and MPI of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)-funded Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH). Her research examines the social and cultural factors that influence health and health outcomes for populations experiencing health disparities. She employs a social determinants of health framework to implement and evaluate evidence-based strategies in community settings, focusing on cultural relevance and impact and finding more effective channels through which to translate research into practice. She is a tireless health justice advocate and mentor working towards eliminating health disparities through collaborative, community-driven coalition efforts.
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!
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Grants

Van Ta Park

Van Ta Park

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 J Yoo

Grace J. Yoo

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

May Sudhinaraset received a NIH R01 grant to conduct a national sexual and reproductive health study among Asian immigrant women.

Publications

Alka Kanaya

Alka Kanaya

Kanaya coauthored a paper discussing the epidemiology of diabetes from the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) study.
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Katarina Wang

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.
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Jennifer Young

Young co-authored a commentary entitled “The Invisibility of Asian Americans in COVID-19 Data, Reporting and Relief.”
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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
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