With the support of the Office of Minority Health (OMH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Health Forum, established the Asian and Pacific Islander Health Information Network (APIHIN) in 1995. The purpose of APIHIN is to create a network for disseminating and sharing health information, resources and policy issues amongst individuals and community-based. organizations that provide health services to the Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) communities. It has evolved into an Internet-based information exchange and dissemination infrastructure that was originally created to ensure universal access to Internet-based health data and related policy information for Asian and Pacific Islanders. It is the Health Forum’s backbone for communications for policy advocacy , program delivery, and resource development, which made possible the creation and maintenance of this website.
Information Collection and Dissemination
The vision of APIHIN is one of an integrated telecommunications infrastructure that will allow Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders access to pertinent health information and resources through local community access points and key provider intermediaries. APIHIN maintains several electronic mailing list services:
Asian & Pacific Islander Health Information is a network for disseminating and sharing health information, resources and policy issues amongst individuals and organizations that provide health services to the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. API-Healthinfo contains state and national policy updates, the progress and pitfalls of the shift towards managed care, as well as other important health research and policy issues. Subscribe here.
Asian & Pacific Islander HIV Capacity Building Assistance is for disseminating and sharing HIV prevention information, resources and policy issues among researchers and program staff of organizations working with Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Subscribe here.
Asian & Pacific Islander Tobacco Education Network is for network members and prospective members of the Asian and Pacific Islander Tobacco Education Network (APITEN). The unmoderated list is used to share news about tobacco research, policy initiatives, community events, funding opportunities, and media events in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. The list helps APITEN members learn from each other by providing a venue for sharing information, experiences, stories, strategies, and opinions about their work in tobacco control. Subscribe here.
Asian & Pacific Islander Cancer Survivors Capacity Building Project is for Asian & Pacific Islander cancer survivors, their families and friends, health care providers, researchers, and community members who are concerned about cancer in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Subscribe here.
Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence is for advocates, activists, researchers, legal and health care professionals, and community based organizations addressing domestic violence in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Subscribe here.
Asian & Pacific Islander Women's HIV/AIDS Network: (apiwhann@yahoogroups.com) is a list for activists and participants from API service providers concerned with the specific issues and barriers to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention in API women. APIWHANN strives to serve the community through advocacy, research, and making culturally appropriate, and linguistically sensitive recommendations to overcome the barriers to treatment and prevention. Subscribe to: apiwhann-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Training and Technical Assistance
The Health Forum provided $7,500 to three high-need, low-capacity community based organizations working with three underserved communities (namely South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander). The organizations were selected as part of the initiative to target these underserved communities. The New York-based South Asian Public Health Association, the South East Asian Resource Action Center in Washington D.C., and San Frnacisco-based Radio Tonga were contracted to conduct Internet-based information collection and dissemination projects to expand the API Health Information Network.
In addition, the Heath Forum conducts quarterly training workshops on using the World-Wide Web to access health-related data. These workshops are generally open to staff members of community-based organizations and public health practitioners/advocates, and these workshops are announced through the API-Healthinfo listserve.
Policy
A key component of the APIHIN's activities is the dissemination of various policy issues that are critical to the health and well-being of the Asian and Pacific Islanders. Through this web site and the two mailing lists, we distribute important policy updates.
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