The goals of Center for Asian Health are:
- To build and to continue
to improve Asian community capacity to support
community-based participatory health education, research,
training and healthcare services
- To develop and
implement cancer health disparities research and training
programs in cooperation with community network partners
- To establish credibility and sustainability of Center's
community network's programs through a dynamic process of
evaluation
- To analyze health policies and practices
that impact uninsured and underserved populations and to
provide recommendations to appropriate private, State or
Federal agencies.
To accomplish these goals, the Center
cooperates with Asian Community Cancer Coalition (ACCC)
representing most of the Asian ethnic communities of the
region, as well as a large network of hospitals, community
health centers, clinics, and academic and medical research
institutions.
ATECAR-Asian Community Cancer
Network and its Asian Community Cancer Coalition represent
the foundational structure of Center for Asian Health. As
part of the NCI's "Community
Networks Program",
it focuses primarily on health, tobacco, and cancer issues
of disparate Asian American ethnic populations.
The Center's ATECAR network, under
the leadership of Dr. Grace Ma, Principal Investigator,
continues to be a collaborative effort between Temple
University and other research and health provider
institutions, and the ACCC. The Center and its network of
collaborators serve Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese,
Cambodians, and other medically underserved Asian ethnic
groups residing in the eastern region of the U.S.
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CAH researchers and staff are experienced multidisciplinary health professionals who have extensive
experience in and demonstrated commitment to eliminating health disparities among Asian Americans and
other ethnic minorities.
They represent, among others:
- Multilingual community health educators
- Public health researchers
- Behavioral health scientists
- Epidemiologists and biostatisticians
- Substance abuse prevention and intervention specialists
- Medical Professionals and Specialists (e.g., oncologists, hepatologists)
- Clinical psychologists
- Medical anthropologists
- Health policy analysts
- Tobacco control specialists
- Junior researchers exploring careers in cancer research
- Asian community advocates
- Cancer survivors
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