Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Conference in L.A. Sept. 24-25 | Business Wire

ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Representatives of the news media are invited to attend the Native

Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Disparity & Health Equity

Conference at the Westin LAX Airport Hotel in Los Angeles on September

24-25.

The conference features preliminary findings from the Pacific Islander

Health Study, the first representative survey to assess physical and

mental health and healthcare utilization of a random sample of Pacific

Islander adults and adolescents living in California.

“Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders are the second fastest growing

minority population in the nation,” says Sela Panapasa, a researcher at

the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) and

principal investigator of the study. “But they remain understudied and

underserved. The goal of this conference is to increase awareness of

health disparities affecting this community and to start developing

evidence-based interventions that will effectively reduce these

disparities and build healthy communities.”

Traditionally, Panapasa explains, Pacific Islanders have been combined

with the broader “Asian or Pacific Islander” population of the U.S.,

which tends to mask important health problems affecting this group.

Since 1997, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders have been treated as a

distinct racial category by federal mandate, emphasizing the need for

these data and creating the opportunity for this scientific study.

Keynote speakers at the conference include Howard Koh, Assistant

Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human

Services; J. Nadine Gracia, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Minority

Health (Acting); David Williams, the Florence Sprague Norman & Laura

Smart Norman Professor of Public Health and Professor of African and

African American Studies of Sociology at Harvard University; Steven

Heeringa, ISR Research Scientist, and Director of the ISR Survey

Research Center Summer Institute, and the ISR Statistical Design Group;

Nathan Wong, Polynesian Voyaging Society; and Fa’auuga To’oto’o, State

of Hawaii First Circuit Judge.

Media representatives should contact Diane Swanbrow to register for the

conference. Email Swanbrow@umich.edu

or call 734-647-9069. For more information about the conference, visit

the conference website: http://projects.isr.umich.edu/nhpi/index.html.

Established in 1949, the University of Michigan Institute for Social

Research (ISR) is the world’s largest academic social science survey and

research organization, and a world leader in developing and applying

social science methodology, and in educating researchers and students

from around the world. ISR conducts some of the most widely cited

studies in the nation, including the Thomson Reuters/University of

Michigan Surveys of Consumers, the American National Election Studies,

the Monitoring the Future Study, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the

Health and Retirement Study, the Columbia County Longitudinal Study and

the National Survey of Black Americans. ISR researchers also collaborate

with social scientists in more than 60 nations on the World Values

Surveys and other projects, and the Institute has established formal

ties with universities in Poland, China and South Africa. ISR is also

home to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social

Research (ICPSR), the world’s largest digital social science data

archive. Visit the ISR website at http://www.isr.umich.edu

for more information.

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