By Karthick Ramakrishnan | A group of about 50 Chinese Americans, many of them children, gathered on the steps of the State House in Rhode Island last week to oppose a new law on collecting detailed origin data on Asian-Americans.
Read MoreBy Sunita Sohrabji | In a huge blow to the immigrant community, the Department of Homeland Security June 15 rescinded a 2014 executive order that provided relief from deportation to the undocumented parents of American citizens.
Read MoreBy Big Island Now | Sens. Mazie K. Hirono and Brian Schatz, and Reps. Colleen Hanabusa and Tulsi Gabbard introduced legislation to reinstate Medicaid coverage for Freely Associated States (FAS) citizens living in the U.S.
Read MoreBy Sunita Sohrabji | In a huge blow to the immigrant community, the Department of Homeland Security June 15 rescinded a 2014 executive order that provided relief from deportation to the undocumented parents of American citizens.
Read MoreBy Lisa Neff | A letter from 150 groups calls on U.S. senators to oppose the American Health Care Act, which would repeal the Affordable Care Act, slash Medicaid funding and defund Planned Parenthood health centers.
Read MoreBy Chris Clark | U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham has reintroduced the “Health Equity and Access under the Law (HEAL) for Immigrant Women and Families Act.”
Read MoreBy Ed Tepporn | Do numbers matter? Most epidemiologists, policymakers, and advocates would say yes. “Funding should follow the data,” and “Public health efforts should stay ahead of the data” are common themes. Over the past 22 years in HIV and public health work, I’ve heard this time and time again. But what happens when your community’s data isn’t included in federal, state, and/or local reports?
Read MoreBy Pavani Yalamanchili | A new mental health resource website for South Asian Americans called MannMukti launched this month, a month designated in the U.S. as Mental Health Awareness Month. MannMukti’s website features testimonials from South Asians who’ve lived with mental illness, including personal experiences with anxiety, mood, personality and eating disorders, in addition to other mental health conditions.
Read MoreBy American Journal of Public Health | Podcast interview with Kathy Ko Chin. Starts at 29:15:
Read MoreBy Kathy Ko Chin | By the year 2043, the United States will no longer have any majority race or ethnicity, increasingly reflecting a vision of a multicultural society (bit.ly/1oyMzWB). Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs) are among the fastest-growing racial and ethnic populations in the United States, with families coming from more than 50 countries and speaking over a hundred languages and dialects.
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