		David Aguliar, MA is currently the Program Coordinator for Project AsPIRE (Asian American Partnership in Research and Empowerment) at the New York University Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH). His role in the Project includes developing outreach strategies, building partnerships, fostering and strengthening relationships with various Filipino-American communities and faith based organizations, civic and professional associations, and health providers, as well as coordinating health screening events and managing the research data base. David has more than 10 years of combined experience in management of faith & community based organizations. He received a Graduate Degree on Management of Non-Profit Organization from Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, holds a Master's degree in Law from the Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, and a Bachelor of Arts degree major in Philosophy. He also holds a National Trainer Certificate from the Community Anti Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) and has an extensive experience in coalition training and substance abuse prevention.

		Gulnahar Alamis a Community Health Worker ( CHW ) at the DREAM Project. She works to educate Bangladeshi community members about diabetes and also helps them access to health care and other resources. She is also the founder of Andolan - ( Organizing South Asian Workers ) a not-for-profit, membership-based group that organizes and advocates on behalf of low-wage, immigrant South Asian workers in New York. Nahar Alam has been an organizer in the United States and Bangladesh for almost 20 years. Nahar works towards a vision in which all workers are treated with respect and their rights are enforced. She has been organizing South Asian immigrant workers in New York City since 1993 through several grassroots Asian-Pacific Islander community organizations.

		William B. Bateman, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine and Directs the Sino-American Health Care Exchange Program for the Institute for Urban and Global Health at NYU. Dr. Bateman has an unequaled record of health services to Asian Americans and he is an expert in health disparities and barriers to access of health care in the Asian American Community. He recently was awarded with a Service Honor Award in 2001 from the group: Asian Americans for Equality. His current focus includes improving health and access to care for the uninsured working poor, studying and expanding the use of a remote, simultaneous medical interpreting system, the reengineering of ambulatory service delivery through workforce retraining and using workplace-based learning as a vehicle for improving the quality of healthcare services and the quality of life of healthcare workers.

		Greta Elyséeis the Training Coordinator of the B Free CEED: National Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Hepatitis B Disparities and the Director of the Center Student Investigator Program for the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health. Ms. Elysée oversees the training, outreach, and research opportunities for student interns to gain knowledge and skills to address Asian American health disparities. As the Training Coordinator for B Free CEED, Ms. Elysée coordinates the workshops, learning exchanges and training activities for all stakeholders and partners involved in the collaborative projects. Ms. Elysée recently served as a Project Associate for the Center for Immigrant Health, at NYU School of Medicine. She has conducted a wide variety of health outreach in the Caribbean community, which includes Tuberculosis and cancer education and prevention workshops in Haitian Creole and English. She had a weekly radio show on Radio Tropicale and participated in a wide variety of community forums. Greta also oversaw cancer-related educational media development targeting the Haitian community. She served as a research assistant for innovative pilot studies seeking to answer research questions related to barriers to care and health disparities and was a trainer for the Language Initiatives Medical Interpretation program. She is a member of the New York Urban League, a mentor for Year Up NYC and sits on the board of the Community Healthcare Network. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Brooklyn College, and is fluent in Haitian Creole.

		Sun-Hoo Foo, MD is the Senior Medical Director of the Chinese Community Health Partnership and on the executive board of the Chinese American Medical Society. He is a respected health care provider, working extensively with NYU Downtown Hospital and has dedicated much of his professional and personal work in providing community service for underserved Chinese communities. Dr. Foo has expertise in developing appropriate outreach programs in the Chinese community and works collaboratively with community-based organizations from other Asian ethnic groups to tailor programs specific to each community.

		Leonida Gamboa is the Lead Community Health Worker at Kalusugan Coalition, Inc. for Project AsPIRE. In this capacity, Ms. Gamboa supports other community health workers in their efforts in community mobilization, patient navigation, and health promotion. Previously, Ms. Gamboa served as a Peer Educator at Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, and as a CTI Specialist at Rockland Psychiatric Center and Pathways to Housing. She received a BSSW at the Asian Social Institute in Manila, Philippines, and a BSBA in accounting at the Phil School of Business Administration.

		Mamnunul Haq is a Community Health Worker (CHW) at the DREAM Project. He is also a founding member of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance (NYTWA) and worked on the development of NYTWA from its inception until today to organize over 11,00 dues paying members through community outreach, media campaigns and political/legal advocacy. He has a long history as an organizer and leader of community organizations which has enabled him to develop positive working relationships and numerous linkages and key contacts within the Bangladeshi community.

		Nadia Islam, PhD Nadia Islam is the Deputy Director and co-investigator of the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health and the Research Director at the NYU Prevention Research Center. Dr. Islam specializes in community based participatory methods and health disparities research within Asian American and immigrant communities, and has had extensive training in qualitative methods, cancer control research, and access to healthcare issues. At CSAAH, Dr. Islam is responsible for research and grants development, as well as the dissemination of research findings in the areas of cardiovascular disease, hepatitis, and access to healthcare disparities. She is also the lead investigator and Director of the DREAM Project (Diabetes Research, Education, and Action), a five-year NIH-funded study that examines the impact of a community health worker program designed to improve diabetes control and diabetes-related health complications in the Bangladeshi community in New York City. Dr. Islam is also a co-investigator of the B-Free CEED: the B Free National Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Hepatitis B Disparities, which is dedicated to developing evidence-based practices to eliminate Hepatitis B disparities in the Asian American community. Dr. Islam completed her doctorate in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University.

		Smiti Kapadia, MPH is the Project Coordinator for the NYU Prevention Research Center (PRC). She coordinates activities across the PRC Cores, develops health promotion and training programs, and facilitates communication and dissemination activities. Ms. Kapadia has extensive experience bringing NYC community-based organizations together around health issues, planning conferences and educational workshops, and working in South Asian populations. Most recently, Ms. Kapadia assisted with the development of a CHW program at an NYC public housing development. Ms. Kapadia received a BA in Communication Studies and Psychology from New York University and an MPH from the Sociomedical Sciences Department at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, with a specialization in Urbanism & the Built Environment. Ms. Kapadia was the recipient of the Peter Jay Sharp Scholarship at the Mailman School of Public Health and the Clark Foundation Fellowship and Scholarship. She is also a graduate of the Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service (FELPS) program, which recognizes commitment to public service and provides professional development and networking opportunities.

		Simona Kwon, DrPH, MPH is an assistant professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine and director of the B Free CEED: National Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Hepatitis B Disparities. Working collaboratively with a coalition of local, national, and community-based organizations, the goal of this Center is the elimination of hepatitis B health disparities among Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander communities through the development, evaluation and dissemination of multi-level, evidence-based best practices and activities. Dr. Kwon is also an associate investigator of the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health and the NYU Health Promotion and Prevention Research Center. She earned her Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology at Yale University, her doctorate in the Division of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and completed the two-year W.K. Kellogg Community Scholars Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Health Behavior & Society.

		Potri Ranka Manis Queano Nur, MA, RN has been working as a Registered Nurse at various areas in the medical surgical department, namely ICU , CCU , telemetry , pulmonary and oncology. Ms. Queano Nur currently works at Queens Hospital, Jamaica, NY as the Assistant Director of Nursing. She is also the Lead Co-Investigator of Project Hakbang, and a Community Health Worker Trainer for Project AsPIRE, two community-based participatory research projects addressing cardiovascular health among Filipino Americans in New York City. She also co-founded Kalusugan Coalition, Inc. a multidisciplinary collaboration of individuals and organizations working together to address Filipino American community’s health in New York and New Jersey, and founded Kinding Sindaw, which promotes cultural heritage of the Philippines through storytelling , dance, music and martial arts. In addition, Ms. Queano Nur serves as a board member of the Community Health Worker Network of New York and a member of the Community Advisory Board of the NYU-HHC Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). She was also a Philippine history teacher at Ateneo de Davao University and taught Tagalog at the College of Mt. Saint Vincent. Ms. Queano Nur received a master’s degree in Health Arts and Science with a focus on Integrative Healing Modality

		Shao-Chee Sim, PhD is currently the Director of Research and Evaluation of the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in New York City. He oversees, directs and manages various research projects targeting the Health Center patients and Asian American population. He also serves as a project evaluator on a number of disease intervention and health service projects that are funded by foundations and government agencies. Dr. Sim has extensive philanthropic experiences, including providing evaluation consultancy services to foundations such as the New York State Health Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Surdna Foundation, the California Endowment, and the Atlantic Philanthropies. Dr. Sim also worked as Research and Evaluation Officer at the Wallace Foundation where he was responsible for guiding the Foundation's research and evaluation strategies and opportunities. Prior to that, Dr. Sim was Director of Research at the Asian American Federation of New York. At the Federation, he was the lead principal investigator and project director for a number of research studies, including an economic impact assessment of September 11th on Chinatown, a mental health needs assessment of September 11th victim families of Asian descents, and a study examining the implementation of a temporary health insurance program serving Asian immigrant workers. He also oversaw the operation of the Asian American Federation’s Census Information Center. Dr. Sim holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a Master in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. As a first-generation Chinese immigrant from Malaysia, Dr. Sim reads and writes Chinese.

		Shilpa Patel, MPH is a Predoctoral Research Fellow for the PRC. During her fellowship, Ms. Patel will be working on a project that will examine the knowledge, access, and utilization of diabetes related services by Asian American immigrants in the US in general, and in New York City. For this study, she will be using data from the RICE project as well as data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, which is a subset of the National Health Interview Survey. Ms. Patel received her BS from Rutgers University with a double major in Public Health and Psychology, and earned her MPH from Columbia University, with a concentration in Effectiveness and Outcomes Research. During her graduate work, Ms. Patel worked on a number of community based research projects that sought to increase access and utilization of cancer related services among vulnerable populations. She is currently a doctoral student at NYU in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, and her dissertation will also utilize the MEPS database to study how variations in the Medicaid program affect racial and ethnic disparities in cancer outcomes.

		Esperanza Perrella joined Kalusugan Coalition, Inc. as a Community Health Worker for Project AsPIRE in March 2011. She was formerly self-employed as paralegal helping our kababayans on immigration matters and also worked with Pathways, Inc. as a caregiver to patients who were on Medicaid. Ms. Perrella has been a community organizer for several years, having organized consumers across Region X and mobilized the People’s Economic Council for consumer vigilance while working at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in the Philippines as Consumer Arbitration Officer in the mid 90s. Likewise, she worked with women’s groups both in the government and private sectors to advocate for women empowerment so that men and women alike treat each other as equal partners in development. Ms. Perrella treasures her involvement as former local chairman of the National Citizens Movement for Free Election at the height of People Power in the Philippines, as former representative of DTI-X employees union, and as volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. She was also a reporter and announcer of the now-defunct DXBB radio station owned and operated by the Diocese of Bukidnon. A member of Gamma Lambda Epsilon Sorority, Ms. Perrella is also active in faith-based organizations such as the Re-Eds (Religious Educators) in the Diocese of Bukidnon and the Handmaids of the Lord-New York Chapter.

		Henry Pollack, MD serves as the Project Director and Principal Investigator of the Hepatitis B and Hepaticellular Carcinoma project. Dr. Pollack is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at NYUSoM and the Director of the Fellowship Program in Pediatric Infectious Diseases. Dr. Pollack is also Director of the NYC Pediatric Viral Hepatitis Network funded by the Speakers Fund of the City Council which coordinates the care of children with chronic HBV and HCV infection among almost 20 hospitals and community health care facilities in NYC. He is the founder and Director of the Pediatric Viral Hepatitis Clinic at Bellevue Hospital, NYU Downtown Hospital, Charles B. Wang Chinatown Health Clinic and Gouverneur Hospital. Dr. Pollack serves as a mentor to the outreach and training cores.

		Mariano J. Rey, Director of the ICHR, is Senior Associate Dean for Community Health and Research at SoM. Prior to the establishment of the ICHR, Dr. Rey was the director of the NYU Institute for Urban and Global Health, which provides an innovative approach to community and international health, linking research, education and patient care to the highest priority health issues. Under his direction, the Institute secured more than $4 million to assess health disparities in NYC’s immigrant populations. Dr. Rey is the PI on several multi-million dollar grants targeted at reducing disparities in health status and access to healthcare services for underserved communities. Currently, he is PI on an NCMHD-P60 Research Center of Excellence, a CDC Center of Excellence for the Elimination of Health Disparities and the Asian American Hepatitis B Program. At SoM, Dr. Rey has spearheaded research, training and policy initiatives that promote the health of minority and underserved communities. He has dual appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Physiology and Neuroscience. He is a Board-Certified Internist, a Board-Certified Cardiologist and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He has served on numerous committees to advance leadership skills and development of talented junior and mid-level investigators and of doctors and other health professionals from the Hispanic community. In addition, Dr. Rey co-directs the NYU Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention Center.

		Lindsey Riley, MPH is the Project Coordinator for the DREAM project. In this role, she oversees the general activities of the project, including the coordination of project coalition activities, assisting in the recruitment and retention of participants, as well as ensuring that research protocols are implemented within a community-based participatory approach. Ms. Riley has a diverse research background, and has previously coordinated clinical trials in the areas of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and immunosuppression, as well as provided technical assistance for a community-based participatory research project related to obesity and nutrition. Ms. Riley earned a BA in Psychology from Washington College (MD), and an MPH from New York University, with a specialization in Community Public Health.

		Arnold Stern, MD, PhD Training Advisor to the Center, has been a member of the faculty since 1970. He is a Professor of Pharmacology, Course Director of Medical Pharmacology, Associate Director of the Institute of Urban and Global Health, Associate Director of the Sino-American Collaborative Program, Member of the Steering Committee of the Primary Care and Public Health Scholars Program, Member of the Executive Planning Committee of the Center for the Study of Asian-American Health and Assistant Dean of Extramural Education Programs. His research interests are in oxidative stress and signaling, with particular emphasis on the role of nitric oxide in signaling. Dr. Stern coordinates and oversees the International Health Program for medical students and the Programs for Preparatory Education in Science and Medicine that focuses on pre-college and college initiatives.

		MD Taher is a Community Health Worker for the DREAM Project. He is fluent in Bengali, is well connected to Bangladeshi community groups in New York, and has received over 100 hours of trainings related to diabetes and necessary skills to carry out the intervention activities with study participants, (i.e. history of community health workers and their role in the health care team; effective communication skills; conflict resolution; popular education; managing clinical trials; ethical issues in research; immigrant access to health services in NYC; trainings on the complications of diabetes; pharmacology of hypertension medication; CHW leadership skills; fostering relationships with media; becoming an effective health advocate; health literacy; effective outreach strategies). Mr. Taher has worked extensively with the Bangladeshi community while volunteering with several different organizations over the years, and is also the team leader of the Manhattan Bangla Cricket Club. He is passionate about advocating for members of the Bangladeshi community and working to reduce the burden of diabetes through education and empowerment. He also earned a B.S. in Community Health Education from Hunter College of CUNY.

		Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health and the Department of Medicine at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. Within the Department of Population Health, Dr. Trinh-Shevrin serves as Director of Large Research Initiatives and heads the Section for Health Equity. Dr. Trinh-Shevrin also directs the Office of Community Engagement for the NYU-Health and Hospitals Corporation Clinical and Translational Science Institute, developing community-engaged research and research training initiatives. Currently, Dr. Trinh-Shevrin is Principal Investigator of a NIH National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities P60 Center of Excellence grant that supports the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH) and co-investigator on several NIH and CDC-funded grants that aims to understand and reduce health disparities in Asian American and other underserved communities. CSAAH has grown extensively to house a CDC-funded Health Promotion and Prevention Research Center, a REACH Center of Excellence to Eliminate Hepatitis B Disparities, and, in collaboration with the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum, the national STRIVE (Strategies to Reach and Implement the Vision of Health Equity) Project. In 2009, CSAAH was the first academic recipient to receive the prestigious Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health’s Leadership Award for its contributions in addressing health disparities. Dr. Trinh-Shevrin is a social epidemiologist with a doctorate in public health from Columbia University and a master in health policy and management at the State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Trinh-Shevrin currently serves on the board of director for the Chinatown YMCA of New York City and on the New York State’s Medicaid Redesign Team Health Disparities Workgroup. Dr. Trinh-Shevrin previously served four years on the board of directors for the Public Health Association of New York City. Dr. Trinh-Shevrin is co-editor of two textbooks Asian American Communities and Health (Jossey Bass Publishers, 2009) and Empowerment and Recovery: Confronting Addiction during Pregnancy with Peer Counseling (Praeger Press, 1998).

		Rhodora Ursua, MPH received a Masters in Public Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health with a focus in Population and Family Health in May 2004. At the Center, she is the Director of Project AsPIRE (Asian American Partnerships in Research and Empowerment), a community-based participatory research project that aims to improve health access and status for cardiovascular disease (CVD) among Filipino-Americans in New York City and New Jersey. Ms. Ursua also serves as the Project Coordinator of Kalusugan Coalition which is a Filipino health coalition she co-founded and the community partner for Project AsPIRE. In addition, Ms. Ursua provides general support for the Center’s activities.

		Pacita Valdellon is a Community Health Worker for Kalusugan Coalition, Inc., for Project AsPIRE since March 2011. She previously worked at NEWHELIX INC., as an office manager based in the Philippines and Virginia and later she worked as caregiver of Aging at Home based in Mineola, New York. Back in the Philippines, Ms. Valdellon was connected with the Department of Education, first as a classroom teacher, then school principal, and later as Division Education Supervisor with a Doctoral Degree in Education. While with DepEd, she established linkages with local officials in setting up non-formal education under the “Adopt A School and Adopt A Barangay Project”. This afforded adults and out-of-school youth in the community to acquire new skills for gainful employment. Ms. Valdellon considers her family as the most important aspect of her life: her husband Gemeniano Jr., son Aldrin, daughter-in-law Jean, son Michael, daughter Karen Anne, son-in-law Edwin Tiongson, and grandson Eirik Kynan.



		Laura Wyatt, MPH is the Research Data Manager for the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health. She manages and oversees the data sources across CSAAH, which include AsPIRE, B Free CEED, and the PRC, and performs analyses and assists with the dissemination of study findings. In addition, she provides epidemiological and biostatistical support for grant development activities within the center. Laura received her MPH in Epidemiology from Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health and also studied public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. When not analyzing data, Laura enjoys leisurely runs on the Brooklyn promenade, knitting fingerless gloves, and baking sweet concoctions.

		Jennifer Zanowiak, MA is the Research Coordinator for the RICE Project. She oversees the activities of the project, including coordinating the activities of the community partners, assisting in the recruitment of participants and in the development of training for CHWs, and conducting an on-going needs assessment. She works closely with academic and community partners to ensure that a community-based participatory approach occurs through all phases of the project. Ms. Zanowiak has extensive experience with grants management, program development, and interventions involving CBPR approaches among immigrant populations. Ms. Zanowiak received a BA in Metropolitan Studies and Psychology from New York University, and an MA in International Affairs from The New School. While completing her graduate studies, she worked as a consultant on projects in New York City and Mumbai in the areas of public health, HIV/AIDs, and gender equality. She also has experience as a Clinical Research Coordinator for pharmaceutical clinical trials for multiple sclerosis.

		Mohammad Zebede Dimaporo joined Kalusugan Coalition, Inc. as a Community Health Worker for Project AsPIRE in March 2011. Prior to joining Kalusugan Coalition, Mr. Dimaporo was trained as a Certified Nursing Assistant. He also worked as a Certified Public Accountant in the Philippines. He graduated with a B.S. in Accounting at Mindanao State University and also received a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from St. Benedict College of Cotabato City.