Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC): 2012-13

My research focuses on access to health, social, and infrastructure services. Most recently, in California, I have conducted community based participatory research with my long-term community partner, APAIT in Los Angeles, on HIV prevention and Asian/Pacific communities. I have also conducted research on access to water, sanitation, and solid waste services in informal enclaves in Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City with my long time academic partner, Dr. Amrita Daniere at the University of Toronto.

Victor Bascara is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA and Vice Chair of the Asian American Studies Department. He teaches courses on such topics as Asian American literature and culture, Asian Americans and war, new media and globalization, Asian American contemporary communities, and empire, sexuality, and Asian Pacific America. In 2010, he received the Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize. His research focuses on the transition from formal territorial colonialism to informal neocolonialism. He is the author of Model Minority Imperialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), which examines the legacy of U.S. imperialism through Asian Pacific American culture. His research interests include Asian American cultural politics, critical race theory, post-colonialism, and the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and sexuality. His articles, chapters, and review essays have been published in such journals at American Quarterly, American Literature, Amerasia Journal, Asian Law Journal, the Journal of Asian American Studies, Kritika Kultura, and Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States and in such books as East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture, Imagining Our Americas: Towards a Transnational Frame, Q&A: Queer in Asian America, and Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization. He was educated at the University of California at Berkeley (B.A., M.A.) and Columbia University (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.).

Roshan Bastani, Ph.D., is a health psychologist whose main research focus over the past two decades has been the study of access to health care among low income, ethnic minority, and other underserved groups. She has conducted numerous community-based intervention studies designed to evaluate the most effective and efficient means of reducing cancer disparities and has had continuous research funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) since 1988. Bastani is professor of health services and associate dean for research in the School of Public Health as well as co-director of its UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity. \r\rDr. Bastani has developed ties with numerous community-based organizations that serve the diverse population of Los Angeles. She also works closely with the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, which provides the principal access to health care for the county's indigent population. Most of her research is conducted in collaboration with these organizations to ensure responsiveness to community risk profiles and needs. Some of the populations she has involved in her studies include low-income African Americans and Latinos, Koreans, Filipinos, Samoans, South Asians and Middle Easterners, as well as low-income seniors, homeless persons and the deaf.

Chang's research focuses on the educational efficacy of diversity-related initiatives on college campuses and how to apply those best practices toward advancing student learning and democratizing institutions. He also worked on a longitudinal study of undergraduate science education, which was funded by both the National Institute of Health and the National Science Foundation. He has written over eighty publications, some of which were cited in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Grutter v. Bollinger, one of two cases involving the use of race sensitive admissions practices at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Chiappelli obtained his Ph.D. degree at UCLA in 1986. He obtained his post-doctoral training in psychoneuroimmunology (mind/body interactions), and has been on the UCLA faculty since. Dr. Chiappelli has been teaching evidence-based dentistry for close to seven years. He gives Continuing Education courses on this topic, and provides research design, technique and data analysis consultation on the relevance of Mind/Body interaction in oral biology and medicine as part of the Psychoneuroimmunology Group, Inc. Dr. Chiappelli also holds the position of Health Science Specialist (GS-13) in the Veterans Administration Medical Center (VAMC).

King-Kok Cheung is Professor of English and Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her fields of interest include world literature (American, Greek, Chinese and Chinese literature), comparative American ethnic literatures; Asian American literature; and Renaissance British Literature. She is author of Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa (Cornell,1993); editor of Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers (U of Hawaii Press, 2000), An Interethnic Companion to Asian American literature (Cambridge, 1996), "Seventeen Syllables" (Rutgers, 1994), Asian American literature: An Annotated Bibliography (MLA, 1988) and a co-editor of The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Her articles have appeared in American Literary History, Biography, Bucknell Review, MELUS, Milton Studies, PMLA, Positions: East Asia Critique and Shakespeare Quarterly.

I am primarily a clinician and spend the bulk of my time providing direct services to the uninsured and or homeless. I also have specialty treatment programs for refugees, polio al asylum applicants and survivors of forced labor settings. My research interests are related to the impact of poverty and survival migration on the health status of immigrants.

My work examines the social determinants of health inequities. In particular, my work develops new ways to measure racial discrimination and to investigate how discrimination is related illness among Asian American and other racial/ethnic populations.