Table 1.

Examples of National Advisory Committee (NAC) Programming During the Pandemic

NAC member organizations	Populations served	Clinical and nonclinical services and resources provided
Apicha Community Health Center	Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and underserved or “otherized” communities in NYC	Apicha's FQHC quickly transitioned to providing telehealth/virtual appointments as of March 2020 to ensure continuity of care and also able to provide walk-in PCR testing to its patient population. Regularly hosts free vaccination pop-up events at neighborhood sites across NYC boroughs, in partnership with local businesses and CBOs (food bazaar, places of worship, community centers, etc.). Provides plain language explanation to address COVID-19 virus and vaccine myths and misinformation to different subsets of community via social media channels. On-staff clinical providers and CHWs/patient navigators supporting community outreach to share COVID-19 infection prevention information, encourage testing and vaccination, and offer PPE distribution. Efforts continue to focus on health information sharing to improve and encourage community care-seeking/testing, address vaccine hesitancy, encourage social distancing and protective measures.
Asian Pacific Community in Action (APCA)	Asian Americans, NH/PI, and emerging communities in Phoenix, AZ	Shift to virtual or telephone assistance to support clients enrolling in Medicaid/ACA marketplace health insurance and unemployment benefits. Collaborate with local organizations to train and deploy Community Health Workers in order to (a) address vaccine misinformation in a linguistically and culturally relevant approach, both in-person and virtually, and (b) to overcome language and cultural barriers and assist community residents in connecting to vaccination and testing services across the Phoenix metropolitan area. Hosted Trauma Dialogue Facebook Live series to advocate for oral health and reproductive justice.
Center for Pan Asian Community Services (CPACS)	Immigrants, refugees, and underprivileged communities in Atlanta, GA	Provides free, universal, drive-through COVID-19 and HIV testing for community, testing 600 community members annually. Hosting health fairs to provide HIV testing, vaccines, health screenings, food distribution, and PPE to community members. On-staff clinical providers and CHWs/patient navigators offer in-language COVID-19 infection prevention information, testing materials, and continued support services.
Chinese American Medical Society (CAMS)	Chinese medical and clinical professionals in greater NYC metropolitan area	Provides in-language, web-based community COVID-19 informational webinars with live question and answer periods, and in-language television and radio programs related to COVID-19. Conducts a variety of phone and virtual town hall lectures and webinars on COVID-19 vaccine and on COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease for frontline staff, including 500+ home health aides and 70+ members of the Visiting Nurse Service of NY. Hosts community distribution of free PPE and partnered with local partners and NYC HHS to offer mobile COVID testing in the community.
Council Of Peoples Organization (COPO)	South Asians and Muslim immigrants in NYC	Hosts and operates halal food pantry catering to LEP, low-income residents in Brooklyn, NY. Provides health insurance, immigration, SNAP benefits enrollment, early childhood education, patient navigation, and other social services. Active member of NIH's NY CEAL initiative, working to increase testing and vaccination rates across the NYC South Asian community.
Asian American Health Coalition (AAHC) of the Greater Houston Area, dba HOPE Clinic	Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, and LEP community in greater Houston, TX	Trained FQHC clinical staff began offering COVID-19 immunizations in December 2020 across four clinic sites in Houston. Provided drive-through COVID-19 PCR testing since May 2020, as well as on-site COVID-19 screening with a specific antibody testing unit. In 2020, HOPE Clinic served 23,355 patients across 155,119 visits, with ∼15% of patient visits conducted virtually or by phone. Staff includes trained providers, clinical staff, and CHW/patient navigators providing primary, pediatric, obstetrics and gynecology, eye, behavioral health, and dental health care services to more than 20,000 unique patients in over 30 languages. Offers ongoing series of virtual health cooking demonstrations for older adults and mental health discussions tailored for adolescents.
India Home44	South Asian older adults in NYC	Offering in-language, culturally adapted virtual COVID-19 awareness lectures, and virtual exercise and art classes to facilitate social connectedness and reduce social isolation. Local staff provide culturally competent and nutritious meal delivery (3 times/week) to over 100 older adults and more than 1000 grocery deliveries to more than 500 seniors to address food insecurity. Provides vital COVID-19 resources, including masks, COVID-19 infection prevention information, and contact tracing programming in high areas of need in Queens, NY, and across NYC. Active member of NIH's NY CEAL initiative, working to increase testing and vaccination rates across the NYC South Asian community.
Kalusugan Coalition	Filipino Americans in NY and NJ	Hosts regular #FilAmHealthCOVID19 webinar series covering COVID-19 health education and wellness forum for Filipino American community (18 archived sessions, more scheduled). Leveraging social media channels to give voice to the contributions and experiences of Filipino RNs working on the frontline, and curating and disseminating in-language (Tagalog) COVID -19 health education materials on KC website. Partnering with the Philippine Nurses Association of American (NY and national chapters), professional agencies to coordinate PPE distribution, infection prevention and control support, and wellness provision to Filipino frontline workers across the United States. Providing strategic and logistical support to Philippine Consulate General in NY to support PPE and vaccine supply distribution to frontline workers, and partnering with local community organizations to address xenophobia and racism against Asian Americans.
Papa Ola Lōkahi	NH/PIs in Hawaii	POL staff actively colead the collaborative NH and PI Hawai'i COVID-19 Response, Recovery and Resilience Team (NHPI 3R) since May 2020, delivering accurate, up-to-date biweekly COVID-19 testing and vaccination data reports on NH/PI communities.45 Developed translated public service announcements (PSA) videos and media tailored for NH/PI communities encouraging social distancing, COVID-19 infection prevention strategies, and listing local community testing and vaccination events and sites. Produces biweekly listing of island-specific support services, offers community education materials and in-language guidance resources, disseminated widely in coordination with HI State Health Department and community and research partners. Lead community organization coordinating across Hawai'i County health departments to coordinate testing, information-sharing, and resource delivery through the NHPI 3R effort in alignment with the National NHPI Response Team. Contributing member of a coalition of community-serving partner organizations supporting CDC's Project Firstline, which seeks to promote COVID-19 infection prevention and control across Asian Americans and NH/PI health care workforce members and CDC's Forging Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Community Partnerships for Rapid Response to COVID-19 Initiative, which aims to address COVID-19 misinformation in Asian American and NH/PI communities in the metropolitan areas of Seattle, WA and New York City, NY, Northern California, and all islands in Hawai'i. Actively informs the development of culturally and linguistically appropriate communication materials and dissemination as a planning member of the National Community Coalition Board (N-CCB) and National Advisory Board (NAB) to Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM)'s National COVID-19 Resiliency Network, a joint initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Minority Health to collaborate with community-based organizations across the nation to deliver education, information and resources to help fight the pandemic.
Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, Inc. (KCS)	Korean American immigrants in NY and NJ	Provides free COVID-19 vaccine and booster doses to all New Yorkers as one of only a few city-designated community-based vaccine sites, through a partnership with NY Health+Hospitals. CBO staff providing culturally competent, weekly meal delivery services and ongoing health, wellness, and community social services and interpretation support to low-income, LEP, immigrant clients, and the broader community. CBO staff providing live, virtual events or short video tutorials to encourage vaccination and address community concerns in-language (such as how to use at-home test kits), reaching over 32,000 social media viewers in November 2021. Active member of NIH's NY CEAL initiative, working to increase testing and vaccination rates in the community, partnering with faith-based organizations to address misinformation and fear related to vaccines in Korean community. In 2020, developed and disseminated translated COVID-19 educational videos with the KAMPANY and CSAAH on: (1) general COVID-19 information; (2) COVID-19 and HBV; (3) COVID-19 and diabetes. Clinical and lay health worker staff providing free COVID-19 PCR testing, vaccination, and antibody screening events at KCS, successfully preregistering and testing more than 1000 individuals across four events in May 2020.
National Tongan American Society (NTAS)	Tongans and Pacific Islanders in Salt Lake City and UT state	Member of PI-CoPCE Islander's National Pacific Islander COVID-19 Response Team Planning Group, launching Strategic Action Plan to support PIs across the United States through primary care services and collaboration with CHCs and CBOs. Through PI-CoPCE, helps disseminate Koviki Talk Podcast for PI communities, families, and allies on COVID-19 and cultural wisdom. Partnered with several UT-local organizations to accelerate the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines and booster doses to PI community, including coordinating COVID-19 PCR testing, vaccination drives, events, and sites, identifying strategic gathering points in the community, such as at churches and schools, to provide easy community access, including efforts in partnership with the Utah Pacific Islander Coalition, and other partners, to help stop the spread of COVID-19. Collaborated with the Utah Food Bank to distribute free boxes of food to families at clinic locations to address food scarcity in the community, in response to the devastating impact COVID-19 has had on PI families, many of whom are employed as essential frontline workers. NTAS staff and CHWs continue to offer free translation and interpretation assistance, health care and benefit enrollment support and citizenship application help, food security assistance, and social services.46 Providing important messaging and ongoing education on issues relating to impact of COVID-19 on traditional cultural practices, such as faikava (kava drinking gatherings), putu (funerals), and lotu (religious gatherings).
Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA)	Asian Americans, NH/PIs, and a broader underserved community in Orange County, CA	Regularly serves 40,000 individuals in 26 languages, with language capacity to support Asian American and NH/PI, Middle Eastern (Farsi, Arabic, Pashtu), and Spanish speakers. Driver of Asian American and NH/PI community outreach and education on free COVID-19 testing (∼300–1000 people/day, 3 days/week) at local community churches, temples, ethnic markets, and community clinics, focused on un/underinsured and essential workers. Also leads contact tracing in partnership with County public health system, local FQHCs, Medicaid Managed Care program. CHWs and CBO staff providing mental health workshops to support OC student and families through virtual education sessions and mental health telehealth services, supporting ∼2000–4000 each month. Partnered with over 11 Orange County school districts to provide mental health support and in-language COVID-19 information for families. Leads coalition of 27 Asian American- and NH/PI-serving organizations to inform local and county clinics' COVID-19-related outreach and infection prevention and control education. Collaborating to provide direct reporting/tracker resources and organizing community advocacy and community relief and support resources in the wake of anti-Asian violence since the start of the pandemic.
South Asian Council for Social Services (SACSS)	Underserved South Asian and the broader immigrant community in NYC	Collaborating with NYC Health+Hospitals city hospital system to provide free, walk-in COVID-19 PCR testing and vaccination using mobile units (vaccine vans) and bilingual SACSS staff on-site in neighborhoods in Flushing, Queens, averaging ∼169 vaccinations a month between February and May 2021.47 Bilingual staff offering regular in-person and virtual information and resource provision, to ensure community members become familiar with health and economic resources available to them (NYC Care), build health and technological literacy, and deliver critical senior support and wellness services (averaging 7 support groups, 187 wellness calls, and 79 counseling sessions per month between February and May 2021) to low English-proficient community members. Provides emergency food relief since start of the pandemic, building on existing culturally relevant food pantry and social service programs to addresses food shortage and hunger, feeding 4800–5000 individuals/week. Offering free weekly grocery delivery of pantry staples to over 14,500 low-income individuals and cooked hot, South Asian meals for 450+ immigrant and low-income community members since start of pandemic. In 2020, distributed over 200,000 masks, hand sanitizer, and other PPE to individuals and families. Patient navigators and CBO-staff provide in-language phone-based health navigation and benefit assistance such as unemployment benefits, and making vaccination appointments.
UNITED SIKHS	Sikh community in NYC metropolitan area	Participating in NYC's Test & Trace Corps to bring free walk-in COVID-19 testing at local community sites across NYC. Between October 2020 to August 2021, hosted ∼71 in-person community testing events.48 Mobilized large-scale cooking resources at local gurdwaras across Queens, NY, to provide food aid outside their places of worship to community members.

ACA, Affordable Care Act; CBO, community-based organization; CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; CEAL, Community Engagement Alliance; CHC, community health center; CHW, community health worker; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; FQHC, federally qualified health center; HHS, United States Department of Health and Human Services; KAMPANY, Korean American Physicians Association of NY; LEP, limited English proficiency; NH/PI, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander; NYC, New York City; NYU CSAAH, New York University Center for the Study of Asian American Health; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; PI-CoPCE, Pacific Islander Center of Primary Care Excellence; PPE, personal protective equipment; PSA, public service announcement; RNs; registered Nurses; SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; UT, Utah.