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Welcome Letter

3 Table of ContentsContents

Congratulatory Congressional Letters 5

Keynote SpeakerSpeakers Bios 13 14

Plenary SpeakerSpeakers Bios 17 18

AgendaPoster Presenters 21 22

List of Poster Presentations 25 26

ListExhibitors of Conference Exhibitors 26 27

ConferenceContributors Contributors 2728

Planning Committee Members 30

4 5 65 67 A Message from Madeleine Z. Bordallo Member of Congress

September 24, 2012

Hafa Adai,

Welcome to the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Health Disparity and Health Equity Conference. This two-day meeting provides an important opportunity to learn from researchers and healthcare professionals about preliminary findings from the Pacific Islander Health Study. This study will help policymakers, students and stakeholders in understanding how to develop effective strategies to improve health outcomes for our country’s NHPI community.

As vice chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, and former chair of the Health Taskforce, I have worked with my colleagues and various organizations to address the inequities in accessibility and treatment for AAPI communities across our country. Our Caucus is committed to ensuring that AAPIs and all communities are able to receive quality healthcare that is culturally competent and linguistically appropriate. We have endorsed legislation such as the Health Equity and Accountability Act of 2011, which will make comprehensive improvements to federal law to address some of our community’s most pressing healthcare issues. This conference, through the diligence of its organizers and the contributions of its participants, will assist in responding to the challenges and issues vital to advancing and improving NHPI patient care and services.

I commend the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research for coordinating this conference to increase awareness of NHPI evidence-based health disparities. I extend my sincere gratitude to all those who came out in support of this conference, and to those who are working to improve the quality and delivery of healthcare services to all underserved communities across our country.

Sincerely,

MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO Member of Congress

87 A Message from Madeleine Z. Bordallo Member of Congress

September 24, 2012

Hafa Adai,

Sincerely,

MADELEINE Z. BORDALLO Member of Congress

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Executive Board

Chair September 24, 2012 Rep. Judy Chu

Vice-Chair Rep. Madeleine Z. Bordallo Dear Friends,

Whip Rep. Colleen Hanabusa As Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus

Chair Emeritus (CAPAC), I warmly welcome you to the Native Hawaiian and Rep. Michael M. Honda Pacific Islander (NHPI) Health Disparity & Health Equity

Sen. Daniel K. Akaka Conference. This conference provides an important first step to Sen. Daniel K. Inouye utilizing evidence-based research to address health disparities in Rep. Xavier Becerra Rep. Hansen Clarke NHPI communities, and I would like to commend the University Rep. Eni Faleomavaega of Michigan Institute for Social Research and the conference Rep. Al Green Rep. Mazie K. Hirono committee members on the convening of this historic event. Rep. Barbara Lee Rep. Doris O. Matsui Rep. Gregorio Sablan Eliminating health disparities that affect the Asian American, Rep. Bobby Scott Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community is one of CAPAC’s top policy

Associate Members priorities. As such, our caucus is committed to supporting critical programs that address diseases and chronic illnesses that disproportionately impact our communities. From the Rep. Karen Bass Rep. Howard Berman introduction of the Health Equity and Accountability Act to our push for better data Rep. Gerald Connolly disaggregation, CAPAC has worked to ensure that the NHPI community and all Rep. John Conyers, Jr. Rep. Joseph Crowley communities have access to quality, affordable health care. Rep. Susan Davis Rep. Bob Filner Rep. Marcia L. Fudge CAPAC values your critical work on behalf of the NHPI community and looks forward Rep. Raul M. Grijalva to continue working with you to ensure that the health needs of our communities are met. Rep. Janice Hahn Rep. Zoe Lofgren On behalf of the 43 Members of our caucus, I thank you for your support of this Rep. Carolyn Maloney conference and extend my best wishes for a successful event. Rep. Betty McCollum Rep. Jerry McNerney Rep. Grace Napolitano Rep. Charles B. Rangel Rep. Laura Richardson Sincerely, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard Rep. Linda Sánchez Rep. Loretta Sanchez Rep. Janice Schakowsky Rep. Adam Schiff Rep. Brad Sherman Rep. Adam Smith JUDY CHU, Ph.D. Rep. Jackie Speier Rep. Pete Stark Member of Congress Rep. Chris Van Hollen CAPAC Chairwoman Rep. Lynn Woolsey

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Executive Board

Chair September 24, 2012 Rep. Judy Chu Message from Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa Vice-Chair Rep. Madeleine Z. Bordallo Dear FFriends,irst C ongressional District of Hawai’i

Whip Rep. Colleen Hanabusa As Chair of the CongressionalSeptember Asian 24, Pacific 2012 American Caucus

Chair Emeritus (CAPAC), I warmly welcome you to the Native Hawaiian and Rep. Michael M. HondaOn behalf Pacific of the Islander First Congressional (NHPI) Health District Disparity of Hawai‘i, & Health it Equityis my pl easure to send a warm aloha to the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Health Disparity & Health Equity Sen. Daniel K. Akaka Conference. This conference provides an important first step to Sen. DanielConference. K. Inouye Thisutilizing year’s conferenceevidence-based in Los research Angeles to addresspromises health to be disparities very productive in in continuing Rep. Xavierto understandBecerra and strategize our collective efforts to both improve health outcomes and Rep. Hansen Clarke NHPI communities, and I would like to commend the University Rep. Enihealth Faleomavaegacare access of for Michigan our nation’s Institute NHPI for community. Social Research and the conference Rep. Al Green Rep. Mazie K. Hirono committee members on the convening of this historic event. Rep. Barbara Lee As a former State Senator in Hawai‘i, I am fully aware of the heath disparities that face Rep. Doristhe O. NHPI Matsui community. I have for many years fought to increase support for both research and Rep. Gregorio Sablan Eliminating health disparities that affect the Asian American, Rep. Bobbyhealth Scott care servicesNative to closeHawaiian, the gaps and Pacificin coverage Islander and community increase the is qualityone of CAPAC of care ’fors top our policy NHPI communities in Hawai‘i and across the country. As a Member of the U.S. House of Associate Members priorities. As such, our caucus is committed to supporting critical programs that address Representatives, diseases I intend and to chroniccontinue illnesses advocating that disproportionatelyfor more attention impact to this our critical communities. issue at Fromthe the Rep. Karen Bass Rep. Howardfederal Berman level to ensureintroduction that health of the equiHealthty becomes Equity and a reality Accountability for all NHPI Act tocommunities our push for across better thedata Rep. Geraldnation. Connolly disaggregation, CAPAC has worked to ensure that the NHPI community and all Rep. John Conyers, Jr. Rep. Joseph Crowley communities have access to quality, affordable health care. Rep. Susan Davis While my colleagues and I push for more modern and encompassing federal legislation in Rep. Bob Filner Rep. Marciathis L.area Fudge, the combinedCAPAC efforts values of your lawmakers, critical work policy on behalfand health of the care NHPI experts, community and the and community looks forward Rep. Raulas M.a Grijalva whole willto provecontinue pivotal working in withunderstanding you to ensure how that we the can health address needs ofthe our issues communities faced by are met. Rep. Janice Hahn Rep. Zoeunderserved Lofgren communitiesOn behalf ofin thethe 43U .S.Members in ensuring of our that caucus, all Americans I thank you have for your access support to affordable of this Rep. Carolynquality Maloney health careconfer andence the security and extend of a my healthy best wishescommunity. for a successful event. Rep. Betty McCollum Rep. Jerry McNerney Rep. Grace NapolitanoI sincerely commend the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research for Rep. Charles B. Rangel Rep. Lauraorganizing Richardson this conferenceSincerely, to increase awareness of the disparities NHPI communities face. I Rep. Lucillesend Roybal- my Allardwarmest wishes for a successful conference and I send my sincere aloha to all those Rep. Linda Sánchez Rep. Lorettawho Sanchezhave committed themselves towards innovating for the future in service of our diverse Rep. JaniceNHPI Schakowsky communities. Rep. Adam Schiff Rep. Brad Sherman Rep. Adam Smith JUDY CHU, Ph.D. Warmest Aloha, Rep. Jackie Speier Rep. Pete Stark Member of Congress Rep. Chris Van Hollen CAPAC Chairwoman Rep. Lynn Woolsey

COLLEEN W. HANABUSA Memberm of Congress

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Message from Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa

First Congressional District of Hawai’i

September 24, 2012

On behalf of the First Congressional District of Hawai‘i, it is my pleasure to send a warm alohaGreetings! to the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) Health Disparity & Health Equity Conference. This year’s conference in Los Angeles promises to be very productive in continuing to understand Welcome and to thestrategize Native Hawaiianour collective and Pacific efforts Islander to both Health improve Disparity health and outcom Health esEquity and healthConference.care access This fordiscussion our nation’s of health NHPI disparity community. and equity comes at a crucial time in the lives of the people we represent, and it is my fervent hope that what is learned here in Los Angeles will help buildAs awarenessa former State that willSenator lead into Hawai‘i,action in Iour am NHPI fully communities.aware of the heath disparities that face the NHPI community. I have for many years fought to increase support for both research and health care The squalityervices and to closecosts theof health gaps incare coverage have been and major increase topics the of quality discussion of care in forWashington, our NHPI communitiesD.C. for decades. in InHawai‘i the 111 andth Congress, across however,the country. we finallyAs a sawMember a significant of the push U.S. to effectuateHouse of Representatives,change. The Patient I intend Protection to continue and Affordable advocating Care for Act, more which attention Delegates to this from critical the U.S. issue Pacific at the federalIslands levelworked to onensure tirelessly that health to ensure equi inclusionty becomes for aour reality people, for isall bringing NHPI communities us much needed across the nation.benefits. As a result of “Obamacare,” many seniors are receiving more frequent preventive care and greater financial assistance to meet the rising cost of their medicines; families are getting access to While insurance my colleagues coverage anddespite I push preexisting for more conditions,modern and age, encompassing or gender; and federal those legislation with lower in thisincomes area ,are the being combined provided efforts a greater of lawmakers, level of carepolicy from and the health federal care Medicaid experts, program.and the community Despite asthese a movementswhole will towardprove endingpivotal healthin understanding disparity and howinequities, we can much address more needsthe issues to be done.faced by underserved communities in the U.S. in ensuring that all Americans have access to affordable quality health I commend care andthe Institutethe security for ofSocial a healthy Research community. at the University of Michigan for sponsoring this event, and its contributors, particularly the Office of Insular Affairs and the Hispanic AssociationI sincerely of Colleges commend and Universities. the University As a memberof Michigan of both Institute the Congressional for Social Hispanic Research for organizingCaucus and this the Congressionalconference to Asianincrease Pacific awareness American of the Caucus, disparities I am alwaysNHPI eagercommunities to support face. I sendthose myseeking warmest to combat wishes health for a inequities successful wherever conference they and occur, I send most my particularly sincere aloha in our to islands all those whoand otherhave underserved committed areasthemselves of the Unitedtowards States. innovating for the future in service of our diverse NHPI communities. You all have my gratitude for the work you are doing. Warmest Aloha, Respectfully,

COLLEEN W. HANABUSA GREGORIO KILILI Memberm CAMACHO of Congress SABLAN Member of Congress

1211 Keynote Speakers

Sione Fa Trainer Motivational Speaker

Sione Fa born in Arcadia, CA. Raised in Mesa, AZ. Proud son of Vuna and Veronica Fa is a first generation Tongan. Sione has grown up with not only the culture but a deep love for his fellow Polynesians.

Sione was a contestant on the hit series NBC’s The Biggest Loser season 7 which aired in 2009 . Starting his weight loss journey at 372lbs and losing 146lbs. His journey started out for personal reasons but then soon realized the importance of sharing the tools he had learned with others, especiallySeptember his 24, Tongan 2012 community. Since leaving the show Sione has become a motivational speaker traveling across the country speaking to large groups and corporations such as Target, State Farm, Safelite, Kalil, PF Changs, and Keller Williams and has appeared on The Today Greetings!Show, The Jay Leno Show. Sione was also featured on The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now episode in 2010 where Sione Traveled to Tonga to meet Her Royal Highness Princess Pilolevu and talk about the rising epidemic of diabetes and obesity Welcome among to the the Native Tongans Hawaiian both on theand Island Pacific and Islander living abroad. Health Disparity and Health Equity Conference. This discussion of health disparity and equity comes at a crucial time in the lives of Sione theis currently people awe trainer represent, at The andBiggest it is Losermy fervent Resort hopeFitness that Ridge what in is Southern learned Utahhere werein Los he Angeles resides with will his wife Britni, daughter Maizi, and son Soakai with baby number 3 expected in December. help build awareness that will lead to action in our NHPI communities.

TheJ. quality Nadine and costsGracia of health, M.D., care M.S.C.E. have been major topics of discussion in Washington, D.C. for decades.Deputy In Assistant the 111th Congress,Secretary however, for Minority we finally Health saw (Acting) a significant push to effectuate change. TheActing Patient Director Protection of theand OfficeAffordable of Care Minority Act, whichHealth Delegates from the U.S. Pacific Islands workedU.S. onDepartment tirelessly to of ensure Health inclusion and Human for our Services people, is bringing us much needed benefits. As a result of “Obamacare,” many seniors are receiving more frequent preventive care Dr. J. Nadineand greater Gracia financial is the Deputy assistance Assistant to meet Secretary the rising for Minority cost of Health their medicines;(Acting) and familiesthe Acting are Director getting of the Office of Minorityaccess Health to at insurance the U.S. Departmentcoverage despite of Health preexisting and Human conditions, Services (HHS). age, or The gender; Office and of those Minority with Health lower is dedicated to improvingincomes the are health being of racialprovided and ethnica greater minority level populations of care from through the federal the development Medicaid program.of health policiesDespite and programsthese that movements will help eliminate toward healthending disparities. health disparity and inequities, much more needs to be done. A pediatrician with epidemiology training, Dr. Gracia was previously a clinical instructor at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and I commenda clinical instructor the Institute and research for Social fellow Research at the Children’sat the University Hospital ofof Philadelphia,Michigan for where sponsoring she conducted researchthis on event, community and its risk contributors, factors for violence. particularly the Office of Insular Affairs and the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities. As a member of both the Congressional Hispanic Dr. GraciaCaucus joined and the the Federal Congressional government Asian as a PacificWhite House American Fellow, Caucus, assigned I amto HHS always and eager later to to the support Office of the First Lady.those She seeking most torecently combat served health as inequitiesChief Medical wherever Officer they in the occur, HHS most Office particularly of the Assistant in our islandsSecretary for Health, where andher portfolioother underserved included child areas and of adolescent the United health, States. , disaster preparedness, environmental health, global health, Haiti recovery, and the White House Council on Women and Girls. She also led the development of the 2012 HHS environmental justice strategy. You all have my gratitude for the work you are doing. A first-generation Haitian-American, Dr. Gracia holds a Bachelor of Arts in French from Stanford University, a medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Respectfully, and a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Steven Heeringa, Ph.D. Research Scientsit GREGORIO KILILI CAMACHO SABLAN University of Michigan Institute Memberfor Social of CongressResearch

Steven G. Heeringa is a Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR). He is a member of the Faculty of the University of Michigan Program in Survey Methods and the Joint Program in Survey

1213 Methodology and directs the Survey Research Center’s Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques. Steve is a Fellow of the American Statistical AssociationKeynote and elected member Speakers of the International Statistical Institute. He is the author of many publications on statistical design and sampling methods for research in the fields of public health and the social sciences. He is the lead author of Applied Survey Data Analysis (Chapman & Hall, 2010), a comprehensive new text on methodsSione for the Fa statistical analysis of complex sample survey data. Steve has over 35 years of statistical Trainer sampling experience in the development of the SRC National Sample design, as well as research designs for ISR’s major longitudinalMotivational and cross-sectional Speaker survey programs. Since 1985 Steve has collaborated extensively with scientific colleagues in the design and conduct of major studies in aging, psychiatric epidemiology and physical and mental health. Sione Fa born in Arcadia, CA. Raised in Mesa, AZ. Proud son of Vuna and Veronica Fa is a first generation Tongan. Sione has grown up withLindsay not only the Hixson culture but, Ph.D. a deep love for his fellow Polynesians. Racial Statistics Branch Sione was a contestant on the hit series NBC’s The Biggest Loser season 7 which aired in 2009 . Starting his weight loss journey at 372lbs Populationand losing 146lbs. Division His journey started out for personal reasons but then soon realized the importance of sharing the toolsU.S. he had Census learned Bureau with others, especially his Tongan community.

Since leaving the show Sione has become a motivational speaker traveling across the country speaking to large groups andLindsay corporations Hixson is sucha statistician as Target, with State the Farm,Racial Safelite, Statistics Kalil, Branch PF Changs,in the Population and Keller Division Williams at andthe U.S.has appearedCensus Bureau. on The TodayShe reviews Show, and The analyzes Jay Leno race Show. and Sione ethnic was data, also with featured a primary on The focus Biggest on the Loser: 2010 WhereCensus. Are Hixson They Nowhas co-authored episode in 2010 two where2010 Census Sione Traveled briefs, one to Tongaon the toNative meet Hawaiian Her Royal and Highness Other Pacific Princess Islander Pilolevu population and talk aboutand one the on rising the Whiteepidemic population. of Beforediabetes joining and obesity the Census among Bureau the Tongans in 2008, both Hixson on thetaught Island sociology and living courses abroad. and was the Assistant Director of Capitalize Sioneon Community, is currently a servicea trainer learning at The BiggestHIV prevention Loser Resort project Fitness at the RidgeUniversity in Southern at Albany-SUNY. Utah were Hixson he resides received with ahis bachelor’s wife Britni,degree daughter in applied Maizi, cultural and studies son Soakai from withNorthern baby Kentuckynumber 3 University, expected ina master’sDecember. degree in sociology from Portland State University and a doctorate degree in sociology from University at Albany-SUNY. J. Nadine Gracia, M.D., M.S.C.E. NicholasDeputy Assistant A. Jones Secretary for Minority Health (Acting) Chief, Racial Statistics Branch Acting Director of the Office of Minority Health U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Dr. J. Nadine Gracia is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority Health (Acting) and the Acting Director of the Office of Nicholas A. Jones is chief of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Racial Statistics Branch, where he leads a research team that Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The Office of Minority Health is dedicated analyzes Census Bureau data on race and ethnicity and develops tables, reports, and presentations that yield insights to to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and the country’s changing racial and ethnic diversity. While at the Census Bureau, Jones has authored numerous reports on programs that will help eliminate health disparities. the American Indian and Alaska Native population, the Asian population, the Black population, the Native Hawaiian and OtherA pediatrician Pacific Islanderwith epidemiology population, training, and the Dr. multiple-race Gracia was previouslypopulation in a theclinical United instructor States. at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and a clinical instructor and research fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she conducted Jones was part of the team of Census Bureau experts who provided leadership and guidance for the 2010 Census research on community risk factors for violence. Alternative Questionnaire Experiment. He provided important insights for the design and development of the AQE questionnaires,Dr. Gracia joined reinterview the Federal study, government and focus as groupa White project, House as Fellow, well as assigned overall researchto HHS and and later analysis. to the Office of the First Lady. She most recently served as Chief Medical Officer in the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Over the past decade, Jones conducted extensive research on race reporting patterns and demographic characteristics where her portfolio included child and adolescent health, , disaster preparedness, environmental health, global health, of multiple-race children and interracial families and was honored by American Demographics magazine as one of the Haiti recovery, and the White House Council on Women and Girls. She also led the development of the 2012 HHS top young demographers to watch for his research on the multiracial population. Jones also earned two Department of environmental justice strategy. Commerce Bronze Medal Awards for the review and analysis of race data from the 2000 and 2010 censuses. A first-generation Haitian-American, Dr. Gracia holds a Bachelor of Arts in French from Stanford University, a medical Jones received a bachelor’s degree in sociology and anthropology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and a master’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from the degree in sociology from the University of Michigan. He lives in Baltimore, MD, with his wife and two daughters. University of Pennsylvania.

StevenHoward Heeringa K. Koh, M.D.,, Ph.D. M.P.H. ResearchAssistant SecretaryScientsit for Health UniversityU.S. Department of Michigan of Health Institute and forHuman Social Services Research

Dr. Howard K. Koh is the Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He Steven G. Heeringa is a Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR). He is oversees 14 core public health offices — including the Office of the Surgeon General and the US Public Health Service a member of the Faculty of the University of Michigan Program in Survey Methods and the Joint Program in Survey Corps — as well as 10 regional health offices across the nation and 10 Presidential and Secretarial advisory committees. 1413 MethodologyAs the Assistant and Secretary directs the for Survey Health, Research he is dedicated Center’s to Summer the mission Institute of creating in Survey better Research public healthTechniques. systems Steve for is a Fellowprevention of the and American care so Statisticalthat all people Association can reach and their elected highest member attainable of the standard International of health. Statistical Institute. He is the author of many publications on statistical design and sampling methods for research in the fields of public health and A former Commissioner of Public Health for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Dr. Koh was also a professor and the social sciences. He is the lead author of Applied Survey Data Analysis (Chapman & Hall, 2010), a comprehensive associate dean for Public Health Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as Director of the Harvard new text on methods for the statistical analysis of complex sample survey data. Steve has over 35 years of statistical School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness. sampling experience in the development of the SRC National Sample design, as well as research designs for ISR’s Amajor graduate longitudinal of Yale andCollege cross-sectional (where he was survey president programs. of the Since Glee 1985Club) Steveand Yale has School collaborated of Medicine, extensively Dr. Koh with also scientific has a Master’scolleagues Degree in the indesign Public and Health conduct from ofBoston major University studies in andaging, is board-certifiedpsychiatric epidemiology in four specialties. and physical He hasand publishedmental more thanhealth. 200 articles in the medical and public health literature and is the recipient of numerous awards for accomplishments in medicine and public health, including the Distinguished Service Award from the American Cancer Society and numerous commendationsLindsay for Hixsonhis groundbreaking, Ph.D. work in tobacco prevention and control. In 2003, he was also named a “Medical All Star” Racialby the Boston Statistics Red SoxBranch for his contributions to the field of early detection and prevention of melanoma ― an honor that allowedPopulation him to Division throw out the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park. U.S. Census Bureau Herb K. Schultz Regional Director Lindsay Hixson is a statistician with the Racial Statistics Branch in the Population Division at the U.S. Census Bureau. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Region IX She reviews and analyzes race and ethnic data, with a primary focus on the 2010 Census. Hixson has co-authored two 2010 Census briefs, one on the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population and one on the White population.

Before joining the Census Bureau in 2008, Hixson taught sociology courses and was the Assistant Director of Capitalize Herb K. Schultz was appointed by President Obama in April 2010 to be the Regional Director of the U.S. Department of on Community, a service learning HIV prevention project at the University at Albany-SUNY. Hixson received a bachelor’s Health and Human Services (HHS), Region IX. He brings a wealth of experience from the public, private, and non-profit degree in applied cultural studies from Northern Kentucky University, a master’s degree in sociology from Portland State sectors. University and a doctorate degree in sociology from University at Albany-SUNY. As Regional Director, he serves as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ key representative in the Region, consisting of Arizona, California,Nicholas Nevada, Hawaii, A. Jones the Pacific territories (American Samoa, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, Guam) andChief, the three Racial island Statistics nations (Federated Branch States of Micronesia, Republic of Marshall Islands, Republic of Palau) with whom U.S.the U.S. Census Government Bureau has formal treaty relationships relating to Public Health. Mr. Schultz ensures that close contact is maintained by HHS Region IX with federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial/ Pacific Island governmental officials on a wide range of health and social service issues. He also works extensively with Nicholasexternal, non-governmentalA. Jones is chief of individuals the U.S. Census and organizations. Bureau’s Racial Statistics Branch, where he leads a research team that Heanalyzes served Census as Senior Bureau Advisor data to on Governor race and Arnold ethnicity Schwarzenegger and develops tables,and Director reports, of andthe Californiapresentations Recovery that yield Task insights Force to fromthe country’s 2008-2010. changing Prior, heracial served and asethnic the Seniordiversity. Health While Policy at the Advisor Census to Bureau, Governor Jones Schwarzenegger has authored duringnumerous California’s reports on 2006-2008the American state Indian debate and onAlaska comprehensive Native population, health care the Asianreform. population, the Black population, the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population, and the multiple-race population in the United States. Mr. Schultz served as a member of former Gray Davis’ Cabinet as head of California’s Labor and Workforce Development AgencyJones was in 2003. part of the team of Census Bureau experts who provided leadership and guidance for the 2010 Census Alternative Questionnaire Experiment. He provided important insights for the design and development of the AQE questionnaires,Mr. Schultz received reinterview his BA study, in Political and focusScience group and project, International as well Studies as overall from research The American and analysis. University in and has a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, both in Washington, D.C. Over the past decade, Jones conducted extensive research on race reporting patterns and demographic characteristics of multiple-race children and interracial families and was honored by American Demographics magazine as one of the top young demographersHonorable to watch Faauuga for his research To’oto’o on the multiracial population. Jones also earned two Department of Commerce BronzeCircuit Medal Awards(Oahu) forCourt the review Judge, and 19th analysis Division of race data from the 2000 and 2010 censuses.

Jones received a bachelor’s degree in sociology and anthropology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Michigan. He lives in Baltimore, MD, with his wife and two daughters.

Fa’auuga To’oto’o is an O`ahu First Circuit, M.D.,Court Judge, M.P.H. and a former District Court judge in the state of Hawaii. He was appointed forHoward his current seatK. Kohin 2010 by Gov. Linda Lingle and approved by the Hawaii State Senate. Judge To’oto’o was appointedAssistant to District Secretary Court in for 1994 Health and prior to that he was a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of HonoluluU.S. for tenDepartment years. Past of associations Health and include: Human Director Services on the Board of the Kaneohe Cultural Foundation, Member of the Board of Directors of Palama Settlement. Judge To’oto’o and his family are actively involved in the local community, volunteering at the Hawaii Youth Challenge Academy, Mo’okini Heiau Foundation, and Kokua Kalihi Dr.Valley Howard Elderly K. Program Koh is the at AssistantKuhio Park Secretary Terrace. for Judge Health To’oto’o for the is U.S. proud Department of his Samoan of Health heritage and Humanand hails Services. from the He village overseesof Nu’uuli 14in Americancore public Samoa. health officesHe is a family — including man, a thecanoe Office paddler, of the and Surgeona wood carverGeneral in and the the making. US Public He lives Health on aService Corpsplantation — as in wellWaimanalo as 10 regional with his health wife Sheryl offices Turbeville across andthe theirnation 11-year-old and 10 Presidential daughter Moanaand Secretarial and all ofadvisory their animals. committees. 1415 As the Assistant Secretary for Health, he is dedicated, Ph.D., M.P.H. to the mission of creating better public health systems for prevention and careDavid so that R. all peopleWilliams can reach their highest attainable standard of health. Florence Sprague Norman & Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health A former CommissionerProfessor of Public of African Health for and the AfricanCommonwealth American of Massachusetts, Studies of Sociology Dr. Koh was also a professor and associate dean forHarvard Public Health University Practice at the Harvard School of Public Health, as well as Director of the Harvard School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness.

DavidA graduate R. Williams of Yale is College the Florence (where and he wasLaura president Norman ofProfessor the Glee of Club) Public and Health, Yale School and Professor of Medicine, of African Dr. Koh and also African has a American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University. His previous academic appointments were at the University of Michiganthan 200 articlesand Yale in University.the medical He and is an public internationally health literature recognized and is authority the recipient on social of numerous influences awards on health. for accomplishments He has special expertisein medicine in andsocioeconomic public health, and including racial disparities the Distinguished in health, Service the effects Award of fromracism the on American health and Cancer the waysSociety in whichand religious involvementnumerous commendations can affect health. for hisThe groundbreaking Everyday Discrimination work in tobacco scale that prevention he developed and control. in one Inof 2003,the mosthe was widely also used named a measures of discrimination in health studies. He is the author of more than 300 scientific papers andevention was ranked of melanoma as the Most Cited Black Scholar in the Social Sciences in 2008. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served on the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics and on seven panels forHerb the Institute K. Schultz of Medicine, including the committee that prepared the Unequal Treatment report. Dr. Williams has also Regionalplayed a visible, Director national leadership role in raising awareness levels of the problem of health disparities and pointing to interventionsU.S. Department to address of them. Health This and includes Human his workServices, as the Regionstaff director IX of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Commission to Build a Healthier America and as a key scientific advisor to the award-winning PBS film series, Unnatural Causes: Is inequality Making Us Sick? Currently, he directs the Lung Cancer Disparities Center at Harvard. Herb K. Schultz was appointed by President Obama in April 2010 to be the Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Region IX., He M.D. brings a wealth of experience fr sectors. Nathan A. K. Wong Medical Director, Kamehameha Schools As Regional Director, he serves as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ key representative in the Region, consisting of

Islands, Guam) and the three island nations (Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Marshall Islands, Republic of Palau) with whom the U.S. Government has formal treaty relationships relating to Public Health. Dr. Wong is one of the first Native Hawaiians to graduate from the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii.Mr. Schultz He hasensures served that as close crew contact member/physician is maintained on by four HHS voyages Region of IX Hokuleà, with federal, the first state, in local,1980 tribal,from Tahitiand territorial/to Hawaiì, and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Polynesian Voyaging since that time. He also He currentlyworks extensively serves as with Medicalexternal, Director, non-governmental Kamehameha individuals Schools, and a position organizations. he feels very fortunate to have been offered following a career with Kaiser Permanente Hawaiì as a Family Physician. He serves on the Board and is a past president of Àhahui o na Kauka, He served as Senior Advisor to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Director of the California Recovery Task Force the organization of Native Hawaiian physicians. Government service includes serving in Vietnam with the United States from 2008-2010. Prior, he served as the Senior Health Policy Advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger during California’s Marine Corps and later with the Hawaiì Army National Guard. 2006-2008 state debate on comprehensive health care reform.

Mr. Schultz served as a member of former Gray Davis’ Cabinet as head of California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency in 2003.

Mr. Schultz received his BA in Political Science and International Studies from The American University in and has a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, both in Washington, D.C.

Honorable Faauuga To’oto’o, J.D. Circuit (Oahu) Court Judge, 19th Division

Fa’auuga To’oto’o is an O`ahu First Circuit Court Judge, and a former District Court judge in the state of Hawaii. He was appointed for his current seat in 2010 by Gov. Linda Lingle and approved by the Hawaii State Senate. Judge To’oto’o was appointed to District Court in 1994 and prior to that he was a Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for the City and County of Honolulu for ten years. Past associations include: Director on the Board of the Kaneohe Cultural Foundation, Member of the Board of Directors of Palama Settlement. Judge To’oto’o and his family are actively involved in the local community, volunteering at the Hawaii Youth Challenge Academy, Mo’okini Heiau Foundation, and Kokua Kalihi Valley Elderly Program at Kuhio Park Terrace. Judge To’oto’o is proud of his Samoan heritage and hails from the village of Nu’uuli in American Samoa. He is a family man, a canoe paddler, and a wood carver in the making. He lives on a plantation in Waimanalo with his wife Sheryl Turbeville and their 11-year-old daughter Moana and all of their animals.

16 David R. WilliamsPlenary, Ph.D., M.P.H. Speakers Florence Sprague Norman & Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health Professor of African and African American Studies of Sociology JulietHarvard Bui University Public Health Analyst Office of Behavioral Health Equity David R. Williams is the Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health, and Professor of African and African American Studies Substanceand of Sociology Abuse at Harvard and Mental University. Health His previous Services academic Administration appointments were at the University of Michigan and Yale University. He is an internationally recognized authority on social influences on health. He has special Julietexpertise Bui inserves socioeconomic as a Public andHealth racial Analyst disparities in the inOffice health, of the Behavioral effects Health of racism Equity on athealth the Substanceand the ways Abuse in which and religious Mentalinvolvement Health can Services affect Administrationhealth. The Everyday (SAMHSA), Discrimination where she scale focuses that onhe developedstrategies to in addressone of the behavioral most widely health used disparities.measures of She discrimination comes to SAMHSA, in health studies.an operating He is divisionthe author of theof more U.S. thanDepartment 300 scientific of Health papers and Humanand was Services, ranked as the aMost Presidential Cited Black Management Scholar in Fellow.the Social The Sciences Office inof 2008.Behavioral He is anHealth elected Equity member was created of the inInstitute accord of with Medicine the Affordable and the CareAmerican Act, andAcademy works of to Arts ensure and that Sciences. diverse He populations has served (culturally, on the National racially Committee and ethnically on Vitaldiverse and individuals; Health Statistics sexual and minorityon seven populations; panels for the and Institute other groups of Medicine, vulnerable including to behavioral the committee health thatdisparities) prepared have the access Unequal to Treatment high quality report. behavioral Dr. healthWilliams care. has Julietalso played is currently a visible, on detail national as Policyleadership Advisor role on in Healthraising atawareness the White levels House of Initiative the problem on Asian of health Americans disparities and Pacificpointing Islanders, to interventions managing to address the health them. portfolio This includesand working his workto highlight as the Asianstaff Americandirector of andthe PacificRobert IslanderWood Johnson (AAPI)Foundation’s health issuesCommission and increase to Build participation a Healthier Americain and access and as to a federalkey scientific programs advisor by underserved to the award-winning AAPIs. Before PBS joining film SAMHSAseries, Unnatural and while Causes: completing Is inequality her graduate Making studies, Us Sick? Juliet Currently, researched he directs workforce the Lung policy Cancer for the Disparities Service Employees Center at InternationalHarvard. Union Local 721, with a focus on the Los Angeles County social services system. She also interned as a therapist to transition-age youth at the Coalition for Responsible Community Development, a non-profit in South Los Angeles. Prior to graduateNathan school, A. K. she Wong worked, inM.D. the Office of Communications at the Brookings Institution. Juliet holds a B.A. in SociologyMedical and B.A. Director, in Psychology Kamehameha from Rice University, Schools and a Master in Social Work and Master in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.

Virginia S. Cain, Ph.D. Director of Extramural Research Dr. Wong is one of the first Native Hawaiians to graduate from the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of National Center for Health Statistics Hawaii. He has served as crew member/physician on four voyages of Hokuleà, the first in 1980 from Tahiti to Hawaiì, and has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Polynesian Voyaging since that time. He currently serves as Medical Director, Kamehameha Schools, a position he feels very fortunate to have been offered following a career with Dr.Kaiser Cain Permanente is Director ofHawaiì Extramural as a Family Research Physician. at the National He serves Center on the for Board Health and Statistics is a past (NCHS), president Centers of Àhahui for Disease o na Kauka, Controlthe organization and Prevention of Native (CDC). Hawaiian She physicians.also serves asGovernment the Executive service Secretary includes for servingthe NCHS in Vietnam Board of with Scientific the United Counselors, States theMarine primary Corps advisory and later body with to the the Hawaiì NCHS. Army National Guard.

Prior to coming to NCHS, Dr. Cain was Deputy Director and, for two years, Acting Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). At OBSSR, she was instrumental in establishing the new office designed to integrate behavioral and social science research more fully into the NIH health research enterprise, thereby improving the understanding, treatment, and prevention of disease.

Earlier in her career, Dr. Cain directed the research program of the Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH. She also was a Program Officer in the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development where she managed a program of research on female labor force participation and fertility, childcare and women’s decisions regarding fertility and labor force, and HIV/AIDS risk behaviors. Her own research has focused on childcare, shiftwork, STD risk behaviors and behavioral changes associated with menopause.

Dr. Cain received her bachelor’s degree in child psychology from the University of Minnesota, her M.A. in psychology from Catholic University and her Ph.D. in sociology with a specialization in demography from the University of Maryland.

Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health School of Public Health, University of Michigan

Dr. Caldwell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH) at the School of Public Health. She is also a Faculty

1617 Associate with the Program for Research on Black Americans at the Institute for Social Research and an Affiliated Faculty Member in the Department of Psychology.Plenary Her research Speakers interest is in the area of family influences on health risk behaviors and well-being among ethnically diverse adolescents. She conducts both basic and community-based participatory intervention research with ethnically diverse adolescents and their parents. With a multidisciplinary team of colleagues, Dr. JulietCaldwell Buiis also examining the fathers’ role in pregnancy outcomes as a way to expand discussions Public Health Analyst of disparities in birth outcomes. Dr. Caldwell currently serves as The Leader of Training & Education for the NIH funded Michigan Center forOffice Integrative of ApproachesBehavioral toHealth Health EquityDisparities Research, the Co-Leader for Training & Education for the CDC funded MichiganSubstance Injury Abuse Center, and the Director Mental of Health Training Services for the NIH Administration funded Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research’s Summer Immersion Program in Health Disparities, and she is actively involved with CRECH’s NIH funded Julietdoctoral Bui training serves programas a Public in racial/ethnicHealth Analyst health in the disparities. Office of Dr. Behavioral Caldwell Health is also Equity a member at the of Substance the Grants Abuse Advisory and Panel Mentalfor Blue Health Cross ServicesBlue Shield Administration of Michigan (SAMHSA),Foundation, where the University she focuses Advisory on strategies Committee to address for the Centerbehavioral for Advancing health disparities.Research and She Solutions comes tofor SAMHSA, Society, and an operatingthe university’s division Health of the Sciences U.S. Department and Behavioral of Health Sciences and Human Institutional Services, Review as aBoard. Presidential She is aManagement recent member Fellow. of the The Governing Office ofCouncil Behavioral for the Health Society Equity for Research was created on Adolescentsin accord with and the she Affordable serves on Carethe editorial Act, and board works for to multiple ensure journals.that diverse populations (culturally, racially and ethnically diverse individuals; sexual minority populations; and other groups vulnerable to behavioral health disparities) have access to high quality behavioral health care. JulietJohnny is currently Simion on detail as Hedson Policy Advisor on Health at the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders,Chief, managing Division the of health Medical portfolio Services and working for the to highlight Pohnpei Asian State American Health and Services Pacific Islander (AAPI) health issuesPresident, and increase Pacific participation Basin in Medicaland access Association to federal programs by underserved AAPIs. Before joining SAMHSA and whilePresident, completing Cancer her graduate Council studies, of the Juliet Pacific researched Islands workforce policy for the Service Employees International Union Local 721, with a focus on the Los Angeles County social services system. She also interned as a therapist to transition-age youth at the Coalition for Responsible Community Development, a non-profit in South Los Angeles.Johnny S. Prior Hedson to graduate was born school, and raised she worked on a small in the island Office in the of Pohnpei Communications Islands, at called the Brookings Mokilloa atoll,Institution. located Juliet 100 holds anautical B.A. in miles Sociology to the and east B.A. of Pohnpei. in Psychology He attended from Rice high University, school in andPohnpei, a Master then in on Social to complete Work and his Master general in surgical Public Administrationtraining from the from University the University of Papua of SouthernNew Guinea California. in November of 1995. Since then, he is been a general surgeon for the people of Pohnpei, and offering surgical services to the neighboring islands when the needs arise. He had developed his keen interests in the risk factors for the non-communicable diseases, particularly cancer, which affects his people in , Ph.D. a disproportionateVirginia rate as compared S. Cain to the developed countries. Under the John A. Burns School of Medicine in Hawaii as a partner, his leadershipDirector withof Extramural collaborating Research partners had developed the Comprehensive Cancer Control plans for each of the jurisdictionsNational that address Center the continuum for Health of cancerStatistics care in the U.S Pacific Island jurisdictions. From 1995 to the present, he had been the President of the Pacific Basin Medical Association, and still the current President of the Cancer Council of the Pacific Islands. He is also the current Chief, Division of Medical Services for the Pohnpei State Health Dr.Services. Cain is Director of Extramural Research at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She also serves as the Executive Secretary for the NCHS Board of Scientific Counselors, the primary advisoryJoseph body to theKeawe’aimoku NCHS. Kaholokula, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Native Hawaiian Health Prior to coming to NCHS, Dr. Cain was Deputy Director and, for two years, Acting Director of the Office of Behavioral John A. Burns School of Medicine and Social Science Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). At OBSSR, she was instrumental in establishing the newUniversity office designedof Hawaii to integrate behavioral and social science research more fully into the NIH health research enterprise, thereby improving the understanding, treatment, and prevention of disease. Dr. Kaholokula is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Native Hawaiian Health at the John A. Burns Earlier in her career, Dr. Cain directed the research program of the Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH. She School of Medicine in the University of Hawai‘I at Manoa. He is the Principal Investigator of the PILI ‘Ohana Project also was a Program Officer in the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health , a community-based participatory research project to eliminate obesity and related disparities in Hawaiʻi. The PILI and Human Development where she managed a program of research on female labor force participation and fertility, ‘Ohana Project is funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of childcare and women’s decisions regarding fertility and labor force, and HIV/AIDS risk behaviors. Her own research has Health. He has worked on other National Institutes of Health-funded projects in Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander focused on childcare, shiftwork, STD risk behaviors and behavioral changes associated with menopause. communities for more than 18 years. His research examines the biological and psychosocial factors affecting diabetes, Dr.obesity, Cain hypertension,received her bachelor’s heart failure, degree depression, in child psychologyand substance from use the in University Native Hawaiians of Minnesota, and other her M.A.Pacific in psychology Islanders. His fromresearch Catholic also involvesUniversity the and development her Ph.D. in and sociology testing withof culturally-relevant a specialization inand demography community-based from the interventions University of targetingMaryland. obesity and diabetes in Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander communities. Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Health Behavior & Health Education Director, Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health School of Public Health, University of Michigan

1817 Steven T. McGarvey, Ph.D., M.P.H. Director, International Health Institute risk behaviors and well-being among ethnically diverse adolescents. She conducts both basic and community-based participatory interventionProfessor research of Epidemiology with ethnically diverse adolescents and their parents. With a multidisciplinary team of colleagues, Dr. BrownCaldwell University is also examining the fathers’ role in pregnancy outcomes as a way to expand discussions of disparities in birth outcomes. Dr. Caldwell currently serves as The Leader of Training & Education for the NIH funded StephenMichigan T. Center McGarvey for Integrative is the Director Approaches of the International to Health Disparities Health Institute Research, and theProfessor Co-Leader of Epidemiology for Training & at Education Brown for University.the CDC funded McGarvey Michigan earned Injury a Ph.D. Center, in Anthropology the Director of from Training Pennsylvania for the NIH State funded University Michigan and Institute an M.P.H. for in Clinical Epidemiology & Health fromResearch’s Yale University. Summer ImmersionMcGarvey isProgram concerned in Health with issuesDisparities, of human and shepopulation is actively biology involved and withglobal CRECH’s health, specificallyNIH funded modernization-relateddoctoral training program induced in racial/ethnic socio-economic health disparities.and behavioral Dr. Caldwellchanges, is genetic also a memberand environmental of the Grants influences Advisory onPanel obesityfor Blue andCross cardiovascular Blue Shield ofdisease Michigan risk Foundation, factor, tropical the parasitology University Advisory and child Committee nutritional for status the Center and health. for Advancing His research takesResearch place and in lowSolutions and middle for Society, income and countries the university’s such as HealthSamoa, Sciences the Philippines, and Behavioral South Africa Sciences and Ghana.Institutional He has Review workedBoard. She among is a Samoanrecent member communities of the forGoverning more than Council 35 years. for the He Society is principal for Research investigator on ofAdolescents NIH supported and shebehavioral serves on interventionthe editorial researchboard for to multiple improve journals. diabetes care using community health workers in American Samoa. He also directs NIH funded genetic epidemiology research on cardiometabolic conditions in Samoa. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for theJohn Advancement Simion of Science,Hedson, and onM.O. the editorial board of the American Journal of Human Biology. Chief, Division of Medical Services for the Pohnpei State Health Services James McNally, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist Director, National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging Johnny S. HedsonAssociate was born and Research raised on Scientist a small island in the Pohnpei Islands, called Mokilloa atoll, located 100 nautical miles to theInstitute east of Pohnpei.for Social He Research attended high school in Pohnpei, then on to complete his general surgical trainingJames McNally from the is University the Director of Papuaof the NACDANew Guinea Program in November on Aging, of a 1995.data archive Since then,containing he is beenover 1,500a general studies surgeon related for to the health and the aging lifecourse. Originally trained in formal demography at Georgetown University, Dr. McNally developed an interest in gerontology while at Brown University and in policy research while at Syracuse University’s Center for Policya disproportionate Research. He rate works as compared primarily onto issuesthe developed of family countries. support and Under health the among John A. the Burns aged, School both in of the Medicine United inStates Hawaii andas a internationally.partner, his leadership He does with methodological collaborating research partners on had the developed repair of deficient the Comprehensive data and has Cancer been Controlcited as plans an expert for each authority on imputation in deliberations before the U.S. Supreme Court. Most recently, he has been studying the impacts of heterogeneity on health outcomes among elderly U.S. Asian/Pacific Islander populations.

Services. Neal A. Palafox, M.D, M.P.H. Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Joseph Keawe’aimoku Kaholokula, Ph.D. John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Native Hawaiian Health Principal Investigator John A. Burns School of Medicine Pacific Center of Excellence to Eliminate Disparities University of Hawaii Neal Palafox is presently Professor and former Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at the UCLA and obtainedDr. Kaholokula a Masters is an inAssociate Public Health Professor with anand emphasis Chair of thein International Department Healthof Native from Hawaiian Johns Hopkins Health at University the John inA. Baltimore, Burns Maryland.School of MedicineHe worked in inthe the University Republic of of Hawai‘I the Marshall at Manoa. Islands He (RMI) is the in Principal 1983 as Investigatora National Health of the ServicePILI ‘Ohana Corps Pr physician,oject where, a community-based he became co-medical participatory director research of a US project funded to programeliminate to obesity care for and the related radiation disparities affected in Hawaipeople i.of Thethe PILIMarshall Islands‘Ohana inProject 1985. is He funded completed by the his National 9 year Institutetenure in on the Minority RMI as Healththeir Medical and Health Director Disparities for Preventive of the National Health Services Institutes and of PublicHealth. Health He has (1987-1992). worked on other National Institutes of Health-funded pr

Dr. Palafox has been working with Pacific health care disparities and developing cancer health care systems in the researchRMI and otheralso involves US Pacific the developmentterritories and and countries testing sinceof culturally-relevant 1995. Among many and community-basedother programs, he interventionshad led the team targeting for 4 international cancer projects: Pacific Cancer Initiative, Pacific Regional Comprehensive Cancer Control Program, Pacific Regional Central Cancer Registry, and is the PI for the CDC-funded Pacific Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities.

Nationally, he is a board member of the Inter-Cultural Cancer Council (ICC) and has won numerous awards. On June 8, 2011, the Legislature and President of the RMI conferred Full Citizenship (Public Benefit Citizenship) for his service to the people and health care systems in the RMI and the US Pacific.

19 MargueriteSteven T. McGarvey Ro, Ph.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. Director,Chief of theInternational Assessment, Health Policy Institute Development, and Evaluation ProfessorPublic Health, of Epidemiology Seatle & King County Brown University

MargueriteStephen T. McGarveyRo, DrPH is is the the Chief Director of the of theAssessment, International Policy Health Development, Institute and and Professor Evaluation of Epidemiology unit of Public atHealth Brown – Seattle &University. King County McGarvey where sheearned leads a Ph.D. the department’s in Anthropology work from in community Pennsylvania health State assessment University and and evaluation. an M.P.H. inDr. Epidemiology Ro has beenfrom Yalea leader University. in developing McGarvey innovative is concerned health withprograms issues that of human address population health disparities biology andamong global our health, nation’s specifically most at risk populations,modernization-related As Deputy induced Director socio-economic of the Asian & Pacific and behavioral Islander changes,American geneticHealth andForum, environmental she played influencesa leadership onrole inobesity the development and cardiovascular of Health disease Through risk Action factor, a tropicalgroundbreaking parasitology partnership and child program nutritional to close status health and health. gaps for His Asian research Americans,takes place Nativein low andHawaiians, middle andincome Pacific countries Islanders. such asPrior Samoa, to that Dr.the RoPhilippines, served as South senior Africa policy and analyst Ghana. for HeCommunity has Voices,worked aamong national Samoan demonstration communities project for tomore improve than 35access years. to Hecare is forprincipal vulnerable investigator populations, of NIH while supported she was behavioral at Columbiaintervention University research as to animprove assistant diabetes professor. care Dr.using Ro communityobtained her health masters workers and doctoratein American from Samoa. the Johns He also Hopkins directs NIH Universityfunded genetic School epidemiology of Public Health. research Dr. Ro’son cardiometabolic passion for the conditionsleading edge in Samoa.in minority He healthis an elected is evident Fellow in her of publishingthe American record,Association which for includes the Advancement numerous articles,of Science, book and chapters, on the editorial and reports board on of issues the American related to Journal minority of health,Human community Biology. health workers, mental health, oral health, and men’s health. James McNally, Ph.D. NuhisifaAssociate ResearchSeve-Williams Scientist, Ph.D. Director,Project Manager, National PacificArchive ofHealth Computerized Data on Aging AssociateHealth Research Research Council Scientist of New Zealand Institute for Social Research James McNally is the Director of the NACDA Program on Aging, a data archive containing over 1,500 studies related to healthNuhisifa and Seve-Williams the aging lifecourse. hails from Originally the island trained of Niue in formalaffectionately demography known at asGeorgetown the Rock ofUniversity, Polynesia. Dr. Born McNally in Niue developed but anraised interest in the in urbangerontology village whileof Auckland at Brown NZ University Nuhisifa completed and in policy her research PhD in Education while at Syracuse Sociology University’s from the University Center for of PolicyAuckland Research. in 2009. He works primarily on issues of family support and health among the aged, both in the United States and internationally. He does methodological research on the repair of deficient data and has been cited as an expert Nuhisifa joined the Health Research Council of NZ in 2010 as the National Project Manager Pacific Health Research. authority on imputation in deliberations before the U.S. Supreme Court. Most recently, he has been studying the impacts Nuhisifaof heterogeneity continues on to health work outcomesactively in amongPacific elderly communities U.S. Asian/Pacific in Auckland andIslander currently populations. facilitates publication workshops for Pacific peoples interested in writing a Family book. Neal A. Palafox, M.D, M.P.H. AlekProfessor, A. Sripipatana Department of, Ph.D., Family M.P.H. Medicine and Community Health HealthJohn A. Resources Burns School and ofServices Medicine, Administration University of Hawaii BureauPrincipal of Investigator Primary Health Care Office of Quality and Data U.S.Pacific Department Center of ofExcellence Health and to HumanEliminate Services Disparities Neal Palafox is presently Professor and former Chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the AlekJohn Sripipatana, A. Burns School PhD, of MPH Medicine, is a researcher University at of the Hawaii. Health He Resources completed and his Services residency Administration in Family Medicine in the Bureau at the UCLA of and Primaryobtained Health a Masters Care’s in PublicOffice Health of Quality with anand emphasis Data. At in HRSA, International Alek currently Health leads from Johnsresearch Hopkins projects University that assess in Baltimore, access toMaryland. prevention, He workedtreatment, in the and Republic follow-up of carethe Marshallfor chronic Islands conditions (RMI) inin 1983HRSA-supported as a National health Health centers. Service Dr.Corps Sripipatana physician, alsowhere serves he became as the co-medicalNative Hawaiian director and of Pacific a US funded Islander program Health Advisor to care andfor the Liaison radiation for the affected U.S. Department people of the of HealthMarshall and HumanIslands inServices. 1985. He completed his 9 year tenure in the RMI as their Medical Director for Preventive Health Services and Public Health (1987-1992). Prior to joining HRSA, Dr. Sripipatana was Project Director for the UCLA Cancer Prevention and Control Research NetworkDr. Palafox and has Assistant been working Director with of thePacific UCLA-Kaiser health care Permanente disparities Centerand developing for Health cancer Equity. health Before care his systemsappointment in the at UCLA,RMI and Alek other served US Pacific as Policy territories Coordinator and forcountries Weaving since an 1995. Islander Among Network many for other Cancer programs, Awareness, he had Research, led the team and Trainingfor 4 (WINCART),international acancer National projects: Cancer Pacific Institute-funded Cancer Initiative, collaborative Pacific of universitiesRegional Comprehensive and community-based Cancer Controlorganizations Program, directed Pacific atRegional reducing Central cancer-related Cancer Registry, disparities and among is the PIPacific for the Islanders CDC-funded in California. Pacific CenterAdditionally, of Excellence Dr. Sripipatana in the Elimination received a ofjunior investigatorDisparities. award from the NCI to study cancer-related risk factors among Pacific Islanders in California.

Dr.Nationally, Sripipatana he is completed a board member his PhD of from the Inter-Culturalthe UCLA School Cancer of PublicCouncil Health (ICC) andand ahas former won W.numerous K. Kellogg awards. fellow On in healthJune 8, policy2011, theresearch. Legislature Alek andis committed President toof thethe studyRMI conferred of underserved Full Citizenship and vulnerable (Public communities Benefit Citizenship) with an emphasis for his service on Asian to the andpeople Pacific and healthIslander care populations. systems in the RMI and the US Pacific.

2019 Marguerite Ro, Ph.D. Agenda Chief of the Assessment, Policy Development, and Evaluation Public Health, Seatle &Opening King County Ceremony

Tongan Hymm Marguerite Ro, DrPH is the Chief of the Assessment, Policy Development, and Evaluation unit of Public Health – Seattle & King County where she leads the department’s work'Eiki, in ko community e 'ofa 'a'au health assessment and evaluation. Dr. Ro has been a leader in developing innovative health programsKo e that moana address loloto health disparities among our nation’s most at risk populations, As Deputy Director of the Asian & PacificPea Islanderngalo hifo American ki ai Health Forum, she played a leadership role in the development of Health Through Action a groundbreaking'Eku ngaahi angahia partnership program to close health gaps for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. PeaPrior kuo to tha 'ufi'ufit Dr. Ro served as senior policy analyst for Community Voices, a national demonstration project to improve'Eku access kovi to kotoa care pe.for vulnerable populations, while she was at Columbia University as an assistant professor. Dr. Ro obtained her masters and doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Dr. Ro’s passionSamoan for the leading Prayer edge in minority health is evident in her publishing record, which includes numerous articles, book chapters, and reports on issues related to minority health, community health workers,The prayer mental will be health, led by oral Reverend health, Sepulonaand men’s Tanuvasa health. of The First Samoan Church of Los Angeles, U.C.C.

NuhisifaA Kupuna’s Seve-Williams Perspective, Ph.D. and A Call To Action Project Manager, Pacific Health Health Research Council of AkahaiNew Zealand e nā Hawaiʻi Lōkahi a kū like ‘Olu ʻolu ka manaʻo Haʻahaʻa ke kūlana Nuhisifa Seve-Williams hails from the island of Niue affectionatelyAhonui a lanakila known as the Rock of Polynesia. Born in Niue but raised in the urban village of Auckland NZ NuhisifaAloha completed mai e nā her Hawaiʻi PhD in Education Sociology from the University of Auckland in 2009. ‘O ke aloha nō kāu mea nui E ō mai e nā Hawaiʻi Nuhisifa joined the Health Research Council of NZ in 2010 as the National Project Manager Pacific Health Research. Nā pualei nā mamo AlohaNuhisifa kakou. continues Greetings to work to allactively of us. in The Pacific late Pilahi communities Paki’s Aloha in Auckland Chant greets and currently us all and facilitates it applies publication to all native workshops and non- for nativePacific people peoples present. interested in writing a Family book. I am Winona KealamapuanaAlek A. EllisSripipatana Rubin, a kūpuna, Ph.D., (elder), M.P.H. an observer and participant in Native Hawaiian issues over eighty plus years; Healthand I ask Resources your patience and and Services attention toAdministration a brief message for your deliberations and actions. Native Hawaiians Bureauand native of Pacific Primary Island Health people Care speak Office similar but of somewhat Quality and different Data languages. Also, we share basic cultural values andU.S. concepts, Department have had of similar Health experiences and Human with westernServices colonization and currently are experiencing the impact of modern technology and materialism on our lifestyles. Therefore, the following are critical reminders during your deliberations and actions. Alek Sripipatana, PhD, MPH is a researcher at the Health Resources and Services Administration in the Bureau of PrimaryONE: “…Be Health contemporary Care’s Office of theseof Quality times and but Data.maintain At theHRSA, integrity Alek currentlyof your trueleads identity.” research (Ahmed projects Al thatBakr). assess When access you tounderstand prevention, your treatment, roots and and who follow-up you are, care you forwill chronic be able conditions to better understand in HRSA-supported others and health they centers.will understand Dr. Sripipatana you. This alsobasic serves respectful as the recognition Native Hawaiian and communication and Pacific Islander are critical Healt globally.h Advisor and Liaison for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. TWO: Know that our individual and collective survival depends upon the practice of lōkahi – harmony and balance of the Priorspiritual to joining(not religious), HRSA, Dr.human, Sripipatana and environmental was Project Directorforces of for the the universe. UCLA Cancer Without Prevention this respectful and Control balance Research all planning and Networkactions will and be Assistant weakened. Director Also, of The the Almighty UCLA-Kaiser has provided Permanente each Center of us with for Healththe “essence Equity. of Before greatness” his appointment – mana – to at carry UCLA,out our Alekkuleana served (responsibilities) as Policy Coordinator in our families, for Weaving communities, an Islander and Network country for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (WINCART), a National Cancer Institute-funded collaborative of universities and community-based organizations directed THREE: No one stands alone: The Almighty, ʻaumakua (ancestors), kūpuna (elders), ‘ohana (family), and others share our at reducing cancer-related disparities among Pacific Islanders in California. Additionally, Dr. Sripipatana received a junior passion and mission in life. We are not alone, and there is strength in collaboration. investigator award from the NCI to study cancer-related risk factors among Pacific Islanders in California. FOUR: Embody the Spirit of Aloha, as Queen Lili’uokalani defined it: “to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be Dr. Sripipatana completed his PhD from the UCLA School of Public Health and a former W. K. Kellogg fellow in health seen, and to know the unknowable…” Listen with your heart and all your senses, not only with your ears. What is in the policy research. Alek is committed to the study of underserved and vulnerable communities with an emphasis on Asian kaona (hidden meaning) is significant in decision making. and Pacific Islander populations. Certainly, each of you will add to these basic concepts from your own cultural roots.

In this shared context, conferees are (1) charged with increasing the awareness of health disparities affecting native

2021 communities; and (2) challenged with developing interventionsAgenda and policies that will effectively reduce disparities and strengthen community outcomes. TIME SESSION TITLE MODERATORS/SPEAKERS You individually and collectively have significantOpening experiences, Ceremony expertise, education, integrity, insights, intelligence, initiative, skills in interpreting and articulating facts and much more. These qualities when focused on conference SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23 objectives and magnified by understanding and affirming your roots, by wise use of your mana in achieving lōkahi, by listening, learning, and relating with aloha andTongan by standing Hymmtogether in performing your kuleana – these combined 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM Pre-Conference Registration magnified qualities -- are awesome. 'Eiki, ko e 'ofa 'a'au MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24 Awake to this call for action. E hiki no! You can do Koit! Mahalo.e moana loloto 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM BREAKFAST, POSTER & EXIBIT VIEWING AND NETWORKING Winona Kealamapuana Ellis Rubin Pea ngalo hifo ki ai 'Eku ngaahi angahia Speaker 1: Setting the Course “Envisioning the Future: A Kupuna’s Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Pea kuo 'ufi'ufi Perspective” 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM OPENING CEREMONY Speaker 2: S. Panapasa, U of Michigan “Envision the Future: Translating 'Eku kovi kotoa pe. September 24, 2012 Research into Healthy Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities”, MI Samoan Prayer KEYNOTE: Honorable Howard K. Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, DC The prayer will be led by Reverend Sepulona Tanuvasa of The First Samoan Church of Los Angeles, U.C.C. 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM BREAK MODERATOR: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC A Kupuna’s Perspective and A Call To Action KEYNOTE: David Williams, Harvard University, MA ISLANDER HEALTH DISPARITIES & 10.00 AM – 11.45 AM Speaker 1: Cleopatra Caldwell, U of Michigan, MI Akahai e nā Hawaiʻi HEALTH EQUITY I Speaker 2: J. Keawe Kaholokula, U of Hawaii, HI (Plenary 1) Lōkahi a kū like Speaker 3: Neal Palafox, U of Hawaii, HI ‘Olu ʻolu ka manaʻo KEYNOTE: J. Nadine Gracia, US DHHS Office of Minority Health, MD and TRANSLATING RESEARCH INTO Haʻahaʻa ke kūlana 11.45 AM – 12.30 PM Jocelyn Sargent, W.K. Kellog Foundation, MI Ahonui a lanakila HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Aloha mai e nā Hawaiʻi 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH ‘O ke aloha nō kāu mea nui STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI E ō mai e nā Hawaiʻi PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIES TO KEYNOTE: Steve Heeringa, U of Michigan, MI Nā pualei nā mamo ELIMINATE NHPI HEALTH Speaker 1: Assemblymaker Mike Eng, CA 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Aloha kakou. Greetings to all of us. The late Pilahi Paki’s Aloha Chant greets us all and it applies to all native and non- DISPARITIES AND CONTRIBUTE Speaker 2: Marguerite Ro, Washington Public Health Department, WA TO HEALTH EQUITY Speaker 3: Jacob Fitisimanu, Utah Public Health Department, UT native people present. (Plenary 2) Speaker 4: John Hedson, Ministry of Health, FSM I am Winona Kealamapuana Ellis Rubin, a kūpuna (elder), an observer and participant in Native Hawaiian issues over 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM BREAK eighty plus years; and I ask your patience and attention to a brief message for your deliberations and actions. 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS Native Hawaiians and native Pacific Island people speak similar but somewhat different languages. Also, we share basic LEADING HEALTH ISSUES AND MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI UNDERSTUDIED HEALTH Speaker 1: Justina Langidrik, Ministry of Health, Marshall Islands cultural values and concepts, have had similar experiences with western colonization and currently are experiencing the TRACK 1 CONDITIONS CONFRONTING Speaker 2: Wayde Lee, Molokai, HI impact of modern technology and materialism on our lifestyles. Therefore, the following are critical reminders during NHPI COMMUNITIES Speaker 3: Wayne McCullough—Mental Health, U of Michigan, MI your deliberations and actions. MODERATOR: Pamela Krochalk, CSU Domiguez-Hills, CA COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS TO ONE: “…Be contemporary of these times but maintain the integrity of your true identity.” (Ahmed Al Bakr). When you Speaker 1: Aukahi Austin, I Ola Lāhui, HI TRACK 2 REDUCE HEALTH DISPARITIES understand your roots and who you are, you will be able to better understand others and they will understand you. This Speaker 2: Sala Mataili, Office of Samoan Affairs, CA AND ACHIEVE HEALTH EQUITY Speaker 3: Joyce Ah You, The Queen Center, UT basic respectful recognition and communication are critical globally. MODERATOR: S. Haunani Apoliona, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI TWO: Know that our individual and collective survival depends upon the practice of lōkahi – harmony and balance of the HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND Speaker 1: Joyce Ah You, Queens Center, UT TRACK 3 spiritual (not religious), human, and environmental forces of the universe. Without this respectful balance all planning and UTILIZATION Speaker 2: Albious Latior, Marshallese Community Health, AK actions will be weakened. Also, The Almighty has provided each of us with the “essence of greatness” – mana – to carry Speaker 3: Tiffany Uhila-Hautau, Ravenwood Health Center, CA out our kuleana (responsibilities) in our families, communities, and country MODERATOR: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI Speaker 1: Mary Oneha, Waimanalo Health Center, HI TRACK 4 THREE: No one stands alone: The Almighty, ʻaumakua (ancestors), kūpuna (elders), ‘ohana (family), and others share our POLICY & PRACTICE Speaker 2: Analika Nahulu, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI passion and mission in life. We are not alone, and there is strength in collaboration. Speaker 3: Yvette Paulino, University of Guam, Guam 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM FOUR: Embody the Spirit of Aloha, as Queen Lili’uokalani defined it: “to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be POSTER SESSION & EXHIBIT VIEWING seen, and to know the unknowable…” Listen with your heart and all your senses, not only with your ears. What is in the 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM RECEPTION kaona (hidden meaning) is significant in decision making. 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM ISLAND LUAU KEYNOTE: Nathan Wong, Polynesian Voyaging Society Certainly, each of you will add to these basic concepts from your own cultural roots.

In this shared context, conferees are (1) charged with increasing the awareness of health disparities affecting native

2221 communities; and (2) challenged with developing interventions and policies that will effectively reduce disparities and TIMEstrengthen communitySESSION outcomes. TITLE MODERATORS/SPEAKERS TIME SESSION TITLE MODERATORS/SPEAKERS You individually and collectively have significant experiences, expertise, education, integrity, insights, intelligence, initiative, skills in interpreting and articulatingSUNDAY facts and much SEPTEMBER more. These 23 qualities when focused on conference SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23 objectives and magnified by understanding and affirming your roots, by wise use of your mana in achieving lōkahi, 4:00by PM listening, – 9:00 PM learning, Pre-Conference and relating Registrationwith aloha and by standing together in performing your kuleana – these combined 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM Pre-Conference Registration magnified qualities -- are awesome. MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 24 Awake to this call for action. E hiki no! You can do it! Mahalo. 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM BREAKFAST, POSTER & EXIBIT VIEWING AND NETWORKING 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM BREAKFAST, POSTER & EXIBIT VIEWING AND NETWORKING Winona Kealamapuana Ellis Rubin Speaker 1: Setting the Course “Envisioning the Future: A Kupuna’s Speaker 1: Setting the Course “Envisioning the Future: A Kupuna’s Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Perspective” Perspective” 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM OPENING CEREMONY Speaker 2: S. Panapasa, U of Michigan “Envision the Future: Translating 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM OPENING CEREMONY Speaker 2: S. Panapasa, U of Michigan “Envision the Future: Translating September 24, 2012 Research into Healthy Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Research into Healthy Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities”, MI Communities”, MI KEYNOTE: Honorable Howard K. Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health, KEYNOTE: Honorable Howard K. Koh, Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, DC U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, DC 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM BREAK 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM BREAK MODERATOR: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI MODERATOR: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC KEYNOTE: David Williams, Harvard University, MA KEYNOTE: David Williams, Harvard University, MA ISLANDER HEALTH DISPARITIES & ISLANDER HEALTH DISPARITIES & 10.00 AM – 11.45 AM Speaker 1: Cleopatra Caldwell, U of Michigan, MI 10.00 AM – 11.45 AM Speaker 1: Cleopatra Caldwell, U of Michigan, MI HEALTH EQUITY I HEALTH EQUITY I Speaker 2: J. Keawe Kaholokula, U of Hawaii, HI Speaker 2: J. Keawe Kaholokula, U of Hawaii, HI (Plenary 1) (Plenary 1) Speaker 3: Neal Palafox, U of Hawaii, HI Speaker 3: Neal Palafox, U of Hawaii, HI KEYNOTE: J. Nadine Gracia, US DHHS Office of Minority Health, MD and KEYNOTE: J. Nadine Gracia, US DHHS Office of Minority Health, MD and TRANSLATING RESEARCH INTO TRANSLATING RESEARCH INTO 11.45 AM – 12.30 PM Jocelyn Sargent, W.K. Kellog Foundation, MI 11.45 AM – 12.30 PM Jocelyn Sargent, W.K. Kellog Foundation, MI HEALTHY COMMUNITIES HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIES TO KEYNOTE: Steve Heeringa, U of Michigan, MI PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIES TO KEYNOTE: Steve Heeringa, U of Michigan, MI ELIMINATE NHPI HEALTH Speaker 1: Assemblymaker Mike Eng, CA ELIMINATE NHPI HEALTH Speaker 1: Assemblymaker Mike Eng, CA 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM DISPARITIES AND CONTRIBUTE Speaker 2: Marguerite Ro, Washington Public Health Department, WA DISPARITIES AND CONTRIBUTE Speaker 2: Marguerite Ro, Washington Public Health Department, WA TO HEALTH EQUITY Speaker 3: Jacob Fitisimanu, Utah Public Health Department, UT TO HEALTH EQUITY Speaker 3: Jacob Fitisimanu, Utah Public Health Department, UT (Plenary 2) Speaker 4: John Hedson, Ministry of Health, FSM (Plenary 2) Speaker 4: John Hedson, Ministry of Health, FSM 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM BREAK 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM BREAK 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS LEADING HEALTH ISSUES AND MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI LEADING HEALTH ISSUES AND MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI UNDERSTUDIED HEALTH Speaker 1: Justina Langidrik, Ministry of Health, Marshall Islands UNDERSTUDIED HEALTH Speaker 1: Justina Langidrik, Ministry of Health, Marshall Islands TRACK 1 TRACK 1 CONDITIONS CONFRONTING Speaker 2: Wayde Lee, Molokai, HI CONDITIONS CONFRONTING Speaker 2: Wayde Lee, Molokai, HI NHPI COMMUNITIES Speaker 3: Wayne McCullough—Mental Health, U of Michigan, MI NHPI COMMUNITIES Speaker 3: Wayne McCullough—Mental Health, U of Michigan, MI MODERATOR: Pamela Krochalk, CSU Domiguez-Hills, CA MODERATOR: Pamela Krochalk, CSU Domiguez-Hills, CA COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS TO Speaker 1: Aukahi Austin, I Ola Lāhui, HI COMMUNITY INTERVENTIONS TO Speaker 1: Aukahi Austin, I Ola Lāhui, HI TRACK 2 TRACK 2 REDUCE HEALTH DISPARITIES Speaker 2: Sala Mataili, Office of Samoan Affairs, CA REDUCE HEALTH DISPARITIES Speaker 2: Sala Mataili, Office of Samoan Affairs, CA AND ACHIEVE HEALTH EQUITY Speaker 3: Joyce Ah You, The Queen Center, UT AND ACHIEVE HEALTH EQUITY Speaker 3: Joyce Ah You, The Queen Center, UT MODERATOR: S. Haunani Apoliona, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI MODERATOR: S. Haunani Apoliona, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND Speaker 1: Joyce Ah You, Queens Center, UT HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND Speaker 1: Joyce Ah You, Queens Center, UT TRACK 3 TRACK 3 UTILIZATION Speaker 2: Albious Latior, Marshallese Community Health, AK UTILIZATION Speaker 2: Albious Latior, Marshallese Community Health, AK Speaker 3: Tiffany Uhila-Hautau, Ravenwood Health Center, CA Speaker 3: Tiffany Uhila-Hautau, Ravenwood Health Center, CA MODERATOR: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI MODERATOR: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI Speaker 1: Mary Oneha, Waimanalo Health Center, HI Speaker 1: Mary Oneha, Waimanalo Health Center, HI TRACK 4 TRACK 4 POLICY & PRACTICE Speaker 2: Analika Nahulu, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI POLICY & PRACTICE Speaker 2: Analika Nahulu, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI Speaker 3: Yvette Paulino, University of Guam, Guam Speaker 3: Yvette Paulino, University of Guam, Guam 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM POSTER SESSION & EXHIBIT VIEWING 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM POSTER SESSION & EXHIBIT VIEWING 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM RECEPTION 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM RECEPTION

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM ISLAND LUAU KEYNOTE: Nathan Wong, Polynesian Voyaging Society 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM ISLAND LUAU KEYNOTE: Nathan Wong, Polynesian Voyaging Society

2223 TIME SESSION TITLE TUESDAYMODERATORS/SPEAKERS SEPTEMBER 25 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM BREAKFAST Speaker 1: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM TITLE: Opening Plenary SUNDAYSUNDSUNDAAYY SEPTEMBER 23 Setting the Course continued 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM Pre-Conference Registration KEYNOTE: Honorable Fa’auuga To’oto’o, State of Hawaii First Circuit Court Judge, HI MONDAYMONDMONDAAYY SEPTEMBER 24 NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC KEYNOTE: Sione Fa, Biggest Loser Trainer, UT ISLANDER HEALTH DISPARITIES & 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM BREAKFASBREAKFASTT,Speaker, POSTER 1: &Steven EXIBIT McGarvey, VIEWING Brown AND NETWORKINGU, RI 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM HEALTH EQUITY II Speaker 2: James McNally, U of Michigan, MI (Plenary 3) Speaker 1: Setting the Course “Envisioning the Future: A Kupuna’s Speaker 3: Perspective”Nuhi Seve-Williams, New Zealand Health Research Council, NZ 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM OPENING CEREMONY Speaker 2: S. Panapasa, U of Michigan “Envision the Future: Translating 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM ResearBREAKch into Healthy Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander KEYNOTE Communities”,SPEAKER: Herb MI Schultz, DHHS, Region IX, CA FEDERAL PROGRAMS/ KEYNOTE:Speaker 1: VirginiaHonorable Cain, Howard National K. Koh, Center Assistant for Health Secretary Statistics for Health,, MD STRATEGIES TO ELIMINATE NHPI U.S.Speaker Department 2: Alek Sripipatana, of Health and Health Human Resources Services, and DC Services 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM HEALTH DISPARITIES AND Administration, MD 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM BREAK ACHIEVE HEALTH EQUITY Speaker 3: Juliet Bui, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (Plenary 4) MODERATOR:Administration, Sela Panapasa, MD U ofand Michigan, White House MI Initiative for Asians, NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC KEYNOTE: DavidAmericans Williams, and PacificHarvard Islanders University, MA ISLANDER HEALTH DISPARITIES & 10.00 AM – 11.45 AM Speaker 1: Cleopatra Caldwell, U of Michigan, MI NHPIHEALTH POPULATION EQUITY I GROWTH: KEYNOTE: Nicholas Jones and Lindsay Hixson, 11.45 AM – 12:30 PM Speaker 2: J. Keawe Kaholokula, U of Hawaii, HI IMPLICATIONS(Plenary 1) FOR THE FUTURE U.S. Census Bureau, MD Speaker 3: Neal Palafox, U of Hawaii, HI 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH KEYNOTE: J. Nadine Gracia, US DHHS Office of Minority Health, MD and 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM TRANSLATINGBREAKOUT SESSIONS, RESEARCH SUMMARIZE, INTO DISCUSS & DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS 11.45 AM – 12.30 PM Jocelyn Sargent, W.K. Kellog Foundation, MI HEALTHY COMMUNITIES MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES/ Speaker 1 : Kamana’opono Crabbe, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI TRACK12:30 PM 5 – 1:30 PM LUNCH PROGRAMS FOR BUILDING Speaker 2: Laura Hamasaka, American Legacy Foundation, DC SHEALTHYTATE DEPARTMENT COMMUNITIES OF HEALTH SpeakerMODERATOR: 3: Fatima Wayne DeAngelis, McCullough, California U of WellnessMichigan, Foundation, MI CA PROGRAMS AND STRATEGIES TO KEYNOTE: Steve Heeringa, U of Michigan, MI MODERATOR: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI ELIMINATE NHPI HEALTH Speaker 1: Marguerite Ro, Washington Public Health Department, WA 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM HEALTH DISPARITY & HEALTH Speaker 1: Ninez Ponce, U of California Los Angeles, CA TRACK 6 DISPARITIES AND CONTRIBUTE Speaker 2: Jacob Fitisimanu, Utah Public Health Department, UT EQUITY RESEARCH Speaker 2: Berrymoon Watson, Bureau of Public Health, Palau TO HEALTH EQUITY Speaker 3: John Hedson, Ministry of Health, FSM Speaker 1: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI (Plenary 2) MODERATOR: S. Haunani Apoliona, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM BREAK Speaker 1: Aukahi Austin, Nā Limahana o Lonopūhā Native Hawaiian TRACK3:15 PM 7 – 5:00 PM ADVOCACY & COMMUNITY Health Consortium,BREAKOUT HI SESSIONS ACTION LEADING HEALTH ISSUES AND SpeakerMODERATOR: 2: Kawen Wayne Young, McCullough, NHPI Alliance, U of Michigan, CA MI UNDERSTUDIED HEALTH Speaker 3:1: VanessaJustina Langidrik, Tuione, Tongan Ministry Community of Health, ServiceMarshall Center, Islands CA TRACK 1 CONDITIONS CONFRONTING MODERATOR:Speaker 2: Wayde Diane Lee, Swanbrow, Molokai, HIU of Michigan, MI INNOVATIVENHPI COMMUNITIES COMMUNICATION Speaker 1:3: RobertWayne McCullough—MentalLogan, National Library Health, of Medicine, U of Michigan, DC MI TRACK 8 STRATEGIES TO ELIMINATE SpeakerMODERATOR: 2: Kealoha Pamela Fox, Krochalk, Office of CSU Hawaiian Domiguez-Hills, Affairs, HI CA HEALTHCOMMUNITY DISPARITIES INTERVENTIONS TO Speaker 3:1: DianeAukahi Swanbrow, Austin, I Ola U Lofā hui,Michigan, HI MI TRACK 2 REDUCE HEALTH DISPARITIES Speaker 2: Sala Mataili, Office of Samoan Affairs, CA 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM AND ACHIEVE HEALTH EQUITY BREAK Speaker 3: Joyce Ah You, The Queen Center, UT TOWN HALL MEETING TO MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough and Sela Panapasa, University of 3:15 PM – 4.30 PM PRESENT ISSUES & MODERATOR: S. Haunani Apoliona, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND MichiganSpeaker 1: and Joyce Momi Ah Cazimero, You, Queens HI Center, UT TRACK 3 RECOMMENDATIONS UTILIZATION Speaker 2: Albious Latior, Marshallese Community Health, AK CLOSING CEREMONY: NEXT 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM SpeakerInstitute for3: TiffanySocial Uhila-Hautau,Research, U of Ravenwood Michigan, MI Health Center, CA STEPS MODERATOR: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI Speaker 1: Mary Oneha, Waimanalo Health Center, HI TRACK 4 POLICY & PRACTICE Speaker 2: Analika Nahulu, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI Speaker 3: Yvette Paulino, University of Guam, Guam 5:30 PM – 6:00 PM POSTER SESSION & EXHIBIT VIEWING 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM RECEPTION

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM ISLAND LUAU KEYNOTE: Nathan Wong, Polynesian Voyaging Society

24 TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25 PosterTUESDAY Presentations SEPTEMBER 25

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM BREAKFAST 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM BREAKFAST Charles Ah-You, The Queen Center Speaker 1: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI Speaker 1: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM TITLE: Opening Plenary 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM TITLE: Opening Plenary Setting the Course continued “M.A.N.A Challenge: A Specifically Pacific ApproachSetting to Fitness the Course and Weight-loss” continued KEYNOTE: Honorable Fa’auuga To’oto’o, State of Hawaii First Circuit KEYNOTE: Honorable Fa’auuga To’oto’o, State of Hawaii First Circuit Court Judge, HI Court Judge, HI NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC Donald Chi, UniversityNATIVE of Washington, HAWAIIAN AND Department PACIFIC of Oral Health Services KEYNOTE: Sione Fa, Biggest Loser Trainer, UT KEYNOTE: Sione Fa, Biggest Loser Trainer, UT ISLANDER HEALTH DISPARITIES & ISLANDER HEALTH DISPARITIES & Speaker 1: Steven McGarvey, Brown U, RI “Culturally-relevant bilingual flipcharts improve the oralSpeaker health-related 1: Steven McGarvey,knowledge Brown and self-efficacy U, RI of Korean-American 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM HEALTH EQUITY II 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM HEALTH EQUITY II Speaker 2: James McNally, U of Michigan, MI caregivers of young children” Speaker 2: James McNally, U of Michigan, MI (Plenary 3) (Plenary 3) Speaker 3: Nuhi Seve-Williams, New Zealand Health Research Council, NZ Speaker 3: Nuhi Seve-Williams, New Zealand Health Research Council, NZ

10:15 AM – 10:30 AM BREAK 10:15BJ AM Crawford, – 10:30 AM University of Nevada, Las Vegas BREAK KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Herb Schultz, DHHS, Region IX, CA “Nevada Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Self-ReportKEYNOTE Health Survey- SPEAKER: 2011” Herb Schultz, DHHS, Region IX, CA FEDERAL PROGRAMS/ Speaker 1: Virginia Cain, National Center for Health Statistics , MD FEDERAL PROGRAMS/ Speaker 1: Virginia Cain, National Center for Health Statistics , MD STRATEGIES TO ELIMINATE NHPI Speaker 2: Alek Sripipatana, Health Resources and Services STRATEGIES TO ELIMINATE NHPI Speaker 2: Alek Sripipatana, Health Resources and Services 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM HEALTH DISPARITIES AND 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM HEALTH DISPARITIES AND Administration, MD Ofa Dewes, The University of Auckland Administration, MD ACHIEVE HEALTH EQUITY Speaker 3: Juliet Bui, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ACHIEVE HEALTH EQUITY Speaker 3: Juliet Bui, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (Plenary 4) Administration, MD and White House Initiative for Asians, “Family-focused Weight(Plenary Management 4) Intervention Targeting PacificAdministration, Children’s Food, MD and Activity White and House Behaviour Initiative Support for Asians, Americans and Pacific Islanders (Fanau FAB): A randomized controlled trial” Americans and Pacific Islanders NHPI POPULATION GROWTH: KEYNOTE: Nicholas Jones and Lindsay Hixson, NHPI POPULATION GROWTH: KEYNOTE: Nicholas Jones and Lindsay Hixson, 11.45 AM – 12:30 PM 11.45 AM – 12:30 PM IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE U.S. Census Bureau, MD IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE U.S. Census Bureau, MD 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH 12:30Jake PM Fitisemanu,– 1:30 PM Utah Island Teens Against Tobacco LUNCH 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM BREAKOUT SESSIONS, SUMMARIZE, DISCUSS & DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS 1:30“Island PM – 3:00 Teens PM AgainstBREAKOUT Tobacco: SESSIONS, Empowering SUMMARIZE, Pacific Youth DISCUSS as Health & DEVELOP Advocates” RECOMMENDATIONS MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough, U of Michigan, MI PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES/ Speaker 1 : Kamana’opono Crabbe, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES/ Speaker 1 : Kamana’opono Crabbe, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI TRACK 5 TRACK 5 PROGRAMS FOR BUILDING Speaker 2: Laura Hamasaka, American Legacy Foundation, DC Christina Holub, InstitutePROGRAMS for Behavioral FOR BUILDING and Community Speaker Health 2: Laura Hamasaka, American Legacy Foundation, DC HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Speaker 3: Fatima DeAngelis, California Wellness Foundation, CA HEALTHY COMMUNITIES Speaker 3: Fatima DeAngelis, California Wellness Foundation, CA “Comparing Health Disparities among NHPI, Asians & Whites in California” MODERATOR: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI MODERATOR: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI HEALTH DISPARITY & HEALTH Speaker 1: Ninez Ponce, U of California Los Angeles, CA HEALTH DISPARITY & HEALTH Speaker 1: Ninez Ponce, U of California Los Angeles, CA TRACK 6 TRACK 6 EQUITY RESEARCH Speaker 2: Berrymoon Watson, Bureau of Public Health, Palau EQUITY RESEARCH Speaker 2: Berrymoon Watson, Bureau of Public Health, Palau Speaker 1: Sela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI Bryan Juan, UH Cancer Center, Cancer Prevention andSpeaker Control 1: ProgramSela Panapasa, U of Michigan, MI MODERATOR: S. Haunani Apoliona, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI “Perceived Discrimination and Substance Use among MODERATOR:Adolescents inS. Hawaii”Haunani Apoliona, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI Speaker 1: Aukahi Austin, Nā Limahana o Lonopūhā Native Hawaiian Speaker 1: Aukahi Austin, Nā Limahana o Lonopūhā Native Hawaiian TRACK 7 ADVOCACY & COMMUNITY Health Consortium, HI TRACK 7 ADVOCACY & COMMUNITY Health Consortium, HI ACTION ACTION Speaker 2: Kawen Young, NHPI Alliance, CA Trisha Kajimura, Life Foundation Speaker 2: Kawen Young, NHPI Alliance, CA Speaker 3: Vanessa Tuione, Tongan Community Service Center, CA Speaker 3: Vanessa Tuione, Tongan Community Service Center, CA “Ke Ola Pono - Culturally-Based HIV Care Services for Native Hawaiians” MODERATOR: Diane Swanbrow, U of Michigan, MI MODERATOR: Diane Swanbrow, U of Michigan, MI INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION Speaker 1: Robert Logan, National Library of Medicine, DC INNOVATIVE COMMUNICATION Speaker 1: Robert Logan, National Library of Medicine, DC TRACK 8 TRACK 8 STRATEGIES TO ELIMINATE Speaker 2: Kealoha Fox, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI STRATEGIES TO ELIMINATE Speaker 2: Kealoha Fox, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, HI HEALTH DISPARITIES Speaker 3: Diane Swanbrow, U of Michigan, MI Suzi Ko, Holistic HonuHEALTH Wellness DISPARITIES Center Speaker 3: Diane Swanbrow, U of Michigan, MI 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM BREAK 3:00“Using PM – 3:15 Traditional PM Healing Concepts as a Tool to Combat Low HealthBREAK Literacy” TOWN HALL MEETING TO TOWN HALL MEETING TO MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough and Sela Panapasa, University of MODERATOR: Wayne McCullough and Sela Panapasa, University of 3:15 PM – 4.30 PM PRESENT ISSUES & 3:15 PM – 4.30 PM PRESENT ISSUES & Michigan and Momi Cazimero, HI Michigan and Momi Cazimero, HI RECOMMENDATIONS Michele Mouttapa, RECOMMENDATIONSCalifornia State University, Fullerton CLOSING CEREMONY: NEXT CLOSING CEREMONY: NEXT 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Institute for Social Research, U of Michigan, MI 4:30“Do PM Men’s– 5:00 PMSocial Support Influence Pacific IslanderInstitute Women’s for SocialPap Testing Research, Decision U of Michigan, Making?” MI STEPS STEPS

Mae Lynn Swodboda, American Cancer Society “Obesity Prevention in Diverse Communities”

Lee E. Buenconsejo-Lum, Cancer Council of the Pacific Islands and Neal A. Palafox, University of Hawaii “Assessing region-wide disparities in cervical cancer prevention and control in the US Affiliated Pacific Island (USAPI) jurisdictions”

2425 ConferencePoster Presenters Exhibitors

NationalCharles Ah-You,Center forThe Health Queen Statistics, Center Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

U.S. Food and Drug Administration Donald Chi, University of Washington, Department of Oral Health Services caregiversNational Asian of young Pacific children” American Families Against Substance Abuse

U.S.BJ Crawford, Department University of Health of Nevada,and Human Las Services Vegas Office for Civil Rights

Ofa Dewes, The University of Auckland

(Fanau FAB): A randomized controlled trial”

Jake Fitisemanu, Utah Island Teens Against Tobacco

Christina Holub, Institute for Behavioral and Community Health “Comparing Health Disparities among NHPI, Asians & Whites in California”

Bryan Juan, UH Cancer Center, Cancer Prevention and Control Program “Perceived Discrimination and Substance Use among Adolescents in Hawaii”

Trisha Kajimura, Life Foundation “Ke Ola Pono - Culturally-Based HIV Care Services for Native Hawaiians”

Suzi Ko, Holistic Honu Wellness Center “Using Traditional Healing Concepts as a Tool to Combat Low Health Literacy”

Michele Mouttapa, California State University, Fullerton

Mae Lynn Swodboda, American Cancer Society “Obesity Prevention in Diverse Communities”

jurisdictions”

26 ContributorsExhibitors Special thanks to the following contributors for their support. National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

2726 Contributors Contributors Special thanks to the following contributors for their support. Special thanks to the following contributors for their support.

Contributors Special thanks to the following contributors for their support.

/Bill Imada 27 27

Momi Cazimero

Dr. Billie Mason and Mr. Gilbert Mason

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27 Conference Committee Members

Sela Panapasa, Co-Chair Helen Whippy Assistant Research Scientist Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs University of Michigan University of Guam [email protected] [email protected] 734.615.4081 671.735.2994

Wayne McCullough, Co-Chair Diane Swanbrow Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations Director of Communications Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research [email protected] [email protected] 734.615.6655 734. 647.9069.

Molly Hawkins, Conference Coordinator [email protected] Envision Conference Logo 248.336.8605 The logo for Envision the Future sets a course for Native S. Haunani Apoliona Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. The linear Trustee pattern of waves symbolizes their Pacific origins and Office of Hawaiian Affairs anchors the bar graph that represents how evidence- [email protected] based research is essential to achieving health equity. The 808.594.1886 image conveys and envisions a future of Hope. Graphic Designer, Momi Cazimero Aukahi Austin Executive Director I Ola Lahui, Inc. [email protected] 808.525.6255

Vuthy Pen /Bill Imada Applications Programmer Analyst Senior University of Michigan [email protected] 734.763.6804

Pamela Krochalk Professor and Interim Chair, Division of Health Sciences California State University Dominguez Hills [email protected] 310.243.2690

Karen Kirchner Research Administrator University of Michigan [email protected] 734.647.3669

Brian Krenz Momi Cazimero Research Technician University of Michigan [email protected] 734.763.2263Dr. Billie Mason and Mr. Gilbert Mason

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Sela Panapasa, Co-Chair Helen Whippy Assistant Research Scientist University of Michigan University of Guam [email protected] [email protected] 734.615.4081 671.735.2994

Molly Hawkins, Conference Coordinator [email protected] Envision Conference Logo 248.336.8605 The logo for Envision the Future sets a course for Native S. Haunani Apoliona Trustee anchors the bar graph that represents how evidence- [email protected] based research is essential to achieving health equity. The 808.594.1886 image conveys and envisions a future of Hope. Graphic Designer, Momi Cazimero Aukahi Austin Executive Director I Ola Lahui, Inc. [email protected] 808.525.6255

Vuthy Pen Applications Programmer Analyst Senior University of Michigan [email protected] 734.763.6804

Pamela Krochalk Professor and Interim Chair, Division of Health Sciences California State University Dominguez Hills [email protected] 310.243.2690

Karen Kirchner Research Administrator University of Michigan [email protected] 734.647.3669

Brian Krenz Research Technician University of Michigan [email protected] 734.763.2263

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at the annual Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Courses in survey research methods conducted by the research staff of the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Questionnaire Design

Survey Operations and Data Collection Methods

Survey Sampling Methods

Survey Quality

Qualitative Methods

Survey Data Analysis

Latent Class Analysis of Survey Error

Hierarchical Linear Models

Structural Equation Modeling

For more information: www.si.isr.umich.edu/ Phone (734) 764-6595 or Toll-Free (877) 880-9389

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31 Committed to supporting and improving Pacific health

The School of Population Health at The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences is located in the heart of the world’s largest Polynesian city. We are committed to developing Pacific health research capacity and capabilities, and to increasing knowledge and understanding of Pacific health issues, both in New Zealand and through the wider Pacific region. The University of Auckland has a comprehensive range of world-class programmes and courses available for international students. In 2013 the University will include with these the Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health specialising in Pacific Health.

For more information go to www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz

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at the annual Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Courses in survey research methods conducted by the research staff of the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Questionnaire Design

Survey Operations and Data Collection Methods

Survey Sampling Methods

Survey Quality

Qualitative Methods

Survey Data Analysis

Latent Class Analysis of Survey Error

Hierarchical Linear Models

Structural Equation Modeling

For more information: www.si.isr.umich.edu/ Phone (734) 764-6595 or Toll-Free (877) 880-9389

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