Research Projects Conducted by AAFH Member Agencies
Due to the Asian Model Minority Myth, Asian Americans have not been the target of research studies. As a result, data on Asian Americans is very limited and not always disaggregated by ethnicity. Without sufficient data, there is little justification for funding specialized programs and services tailored for the Asian American community.
To contribute to this limited literature, AAFH member organizations have partnered with national and local organizations to conduct research, particularly Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR). Please see below for more information and recent research projects from AAFH members.
Examples of Current CBPR Projects:
| Research Project | Research Partners | Project Summary |
| Innovative Faith-Based Education on Advance Directives in Asian American Communities (NIH-R21) | Chinese Community Health Resource Center & Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project at University of California, San Francisco | To increase awareness and completion of Advance Directives within Asian American faith-based communities. |
| The Chinese Community Internet Stop Smoking Project (TRDRP) | Chinese Community Health Resource Center & UCSF Internet World Health Resource Center | The primary mission is to establish accessible, evidence-based, and sustainable self-help resources via the Internet to promote smoking cessation among Chinese Americans. |
| A Family Intervention To Reduce Smoking in Chinese Men | Chinese Community Health Resource Center & Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project at University of California, San Francisco | To develop and pilot test a family intervention using lay health worker (LHW) outreach to involve both smokers’ families and smokers to promote smoking cessation in Chinese American men |
| Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research and Training (AANCART) | http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/cancer/research/programs/aancart/index.html | AANCART’s focus is on reducing the unique, unusual, and unnecessary cancer burden affecting Asian Americans. |