Table 4.
A sampling of academic centers and institutes focused on overall Asian health.
| Center name | Institution | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Stanford Center for Asian Research and Education (CARE) | Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA | The Center for Asian Health Research and Education was founded on October 2018 to provide a common place for research, education, and clinical care support for Asians, allowing disparate faculty, staff, community members and trainees to share ideas and common resources |
| Stanford Asian Liver Center (ALC) | Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA | The Asian Liver Center at Stanford University addresses the disproportionately high rates of chronic hepatitis B infection and liver cancer in Asians and Asian Americans. The ultimate goal of the center is to eliminate the transmission and stigma of hepatitis B and reduce deaths from liver cancer and liver disease caused by chronic hepatitis B |
| Stanford South Asian Translational Heart Initiative (SSATHI) | Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA | To help South Asians better understand their risk for heart disease, the Stanford South Asian Translational Heart Initiative (SSATHI) offers health assessments and treatment strategies among other clinical services. SSATHI’s research will help develop technologies to predict and treat patients who are at the highest risk of developing heart disease and prevent their disease from occurring |
| Asian American Health Coalition of the Greater Houston Area | HOPE Clinic, Houston, TX | Asian American Health Coalition (AAHC) was established in 1994 as a forum and a convener for rallying community resources to reduce the widening health disparity gap faced by rapidly growing Asian populations residing in the greater Houston area |
| Asian American Center on Disparities Research (AACDR) | University of California, Davis, Davis, CA | The mission of the Asian American Center on Disparities Research (AACDR) is focused on this aspect of disparity - ethnocultural factors that influence the effectiveness of treatment. The center supports and coordinates the efforts of a network of researchers who study the mental health issues most salient to Asian Americans |
| Collaborative approach for Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Research and Education (CARE) | University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | To address the gap and reduce disparities in research participation among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) through the creation of a registry of AAPI who are interested in participating in various types of research such as Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), aging, and caregiving-related research that affects our health across the lifespan |
| Asian American Research Center on Health (ARCH) | University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | ARCH maintains an open and collaborative environment to carry out the vision, which is to be a leader in Asian American health research to promote health and health equity in partnership with Asian American communities |
| Asian Health Institute | University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA | The mission of the UCSF Asian Healthcare Institute is to improve health outcomes, eliminate health care disparities in Asians, as well as increase their medical access. AHI strives to emphasize healthy lifestyle practices and preventive medicine through raising health literacy levels of the Asian American community in language- and culturally appropriate health education programs. AHI looks forward to becoming one of the strongest research, academic, and clinical Asian health care resource hubs in the nation |
| NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH) | New York University, New York, NY | CSAAH applies innovative and rigorous approaches to harness the power of community health workers, technology, and electronic health record-based strategies in ways that have not previously been adapted or systematically tested among Asian American communities to improve access to care |
| Center for Asian Health | Temple University, Philadelphia, PA | The Center for Asian Health research encompasses a range of health issues that reflect both national priorities as well as scientifically identified community concerns. The Center, in cooperation with a large network of community, institutional, and clinical partners, has focused on four broad areas of health disparity research that include cancer, tobacco, cardiovascular, and chronic diseases; translational health; and global health. |
| Center for Asian Health Equity (CAHE) | University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL | CAHE is a unique academic and community partnership between the University of Chicago and Asian Health Coalition (AHC), a community-based organization dedicated to the study of primarily Asian American health and disparities. The Center takes a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to addressing gaps in clinical medicine and public health through a comprehensive program for research, health education, training, community engagement, policy, and information dissemination |
| Asian Health Initiative | Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA | The AHI identifies public health issues of particular prevalence or concern to the local Asian community and seeks to work collaboratively with community-based organizations to help address those health issues in a culturally and linguistically appropriate setting |
| Healthy Mind Initiative | National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Bethesda, MA | The mission of the Healthy Mind Initiative (HMI) is to increase mental health awareness and promote suicide prevention in AAPI adolescents. Launched in 2018, HMI is a collaborative effort among the US Public Health Service, federal and county government partners, and AAPI community organizations and leadership. It highlights the importance of mental health literacy by educating about mental illness, substance misuse, and suicide among AAPI youth, with a focus on prevention and early detection |
| The Rutgers Asian Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ | RCMAR aims to understand the cross-ethnic variations in the social, cultural, and behavior mechanisms of trauma, stress, and resilience across US Asian populations; it explores the differential health outcomes associated with trauma, immigration, and mechanisms of resilience in US Asian populations. In addition, it supports early-career researchers through funding, education, and training, and build community capacity to address health disparities and improve health outcomes |