Asian American Pacific Islander Health Research Group

AAPIHRG are a group of San Francisco Bay Area health professionals and UC Berkeley undergraduates/alumni. On this campus where 42% of students are Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) in 2008, there was not a single academic course devoted to the study of health in the AAPI communities. The AAPI Health Research Group was formed in 2008 to fill this void. AAPI Health Research Group was formed in the spring of 2008. The purpose is to encourage students to engage in AAPI community health research in the following five areas: (1) diversity of the AAPI communities, (2) historical perspective, (3) epidemiological perspective, (4) medical perspective and (5) social change. Aside from hosting the Break The Silence Decal in the Spring semester to spark conversation about prominent health issues within the AAPI community, AAPIHRG organizes several other service projects to facilitate social change. Some of the projects include: Bone Marrow Drive, Minority in Health Conference, Voter Eng...