Working Groups
The MRP facilitates the organization of working groups made of MRP affiliated faculty to address specific policy areas concerning the AAPI population. They conduct community-based research and partner with legislators to develop policy solutions for AAPI issues.
- Health Working Group
The work group's initial project is a proposed State of AAPI Health Report. This idea comes out of a year long discussion with Assembly member Mike Eng. The UC Program on Opportunity and Equity is providing seed funds for the project.
The report will include health care access (insurance coverage, cultural competency, and language access), obesity and diabetes, mental health, and Hepatitis B. The group aim's to finish the final report by Fall 2008 in time for the new legislative calendar to inform state policy.
- Co-chairs: Ninez Ponce (UCLA-Associate Professor, Department of Health Services) and Winston Tseng (UC San Francisco, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences)
- Other members of the group include:
*Moon S. Chen (UC Davis-Professor, Department of Internal Medicine in Division
of Hematology and Oncology)
*Gordon L. Fung ( UCSF Medical Center, MPH, Director, Cardiology Services at at Mt. Zion)
*Gilbert C. Gee (UCLA, Associate Professor, Public Health)
*Lisa C. Ikemoto (UC Davis, Professor, Law)
*Joel M. Moskowitz (UC Berkeley, Director, Center for Family and Community Health)
*Marjorie Kagawa-Singer (UCLA, Professor, Public Health and Asian American Studies)
*Stanley Sue (UC Davis, Distinguished Professor, Psychology and Asian American Studies)
*Lois M. Takahashi (UCLA, Associate Professor, Urban Planning)
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