NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS

Subcommittee on Populations

May 22-23, 2003

J.D. Morgan Athletics Center
The Press Room
UCLA Athletics
325 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone: 310-206-6662

Thursday, May 22
9:00-9:15 am Call to Order and Introductions

Review of Agenda

Meeting Process

Vickie Mays, Ph.D., MSPH
Chair
9:15-9:35 am Diversity of the Asian, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander Populations Dennis Arguelles, MA
Assistant Director, UCLA Asian American Studies Center
9:35-9:50 am Questions and Discussion
9:50-10:20 am Native Hawaiians and Mainland Hawaiians Nolan Malone, Ph.D.
PACE Kamehameha School
9:45-10:05 am Questions and Discussion
10:05-10:35 am Data Issues in Asian
Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders
Paul Ong, Ph.D.
UCLA, Director of the Ralph and Lewis Goldy Center
10:35-10:55 am Questions and Discussion
10:55-11:40 am Use of Census Data and Health Planning and Contextual Community Development in Support of Community Services Melany Dela Cruz
Asian American Studies Center, Census Information Coordinator

Bong Vergara, MA, MSW
Special Services Group

11:40-12:00 am Questions and Discussion
12:00-1:00 pm Lunch
1:15-2:00 pm Pharmacologic Differences in Asian Populations Keh-Ming Lin, MD
UC Harbor General, Director of the Center on the Psychobiology of Ethnicity
2:00-2:20 pm Questions and Discussion
2:20-2:40 pm Break
2:40-3:25 pm Language and Translation
Aggregation and Disaggregation
Ninez Ponce, Ph.D.
UCLA School of Public Health and Co-Principal Investigator of the California Health Interview Survey
3:25-4:00 pm Questions and Discussion
4:45-5:00 pm General Discussion & Wrap Up Vickie M. Mays, Ph.D., MSPH
5:00 pm Adjourn

Friday, May 23

8:50-9:00 am Call to Order

Welcome Introductions

Summary of Previous Day

Vickie M. Mays, Ph.D., MSPH
Chair
9:00-9:30 am Southeast Asians: Where’s the Data and Why It is Needed Naleem Gupta, MPH, MSW
Valley Care Community Consortium

Pardeepta Upadhyah
Southeast Asian Network

9:30-9:45 am Questions and Discussion
9:45-10:35 am Small and Geographic Populations Data Issues
Hmong, Cambodian, Vietnamese
Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Ph.D, RN, MN
UCLA School of Public Health
10:35-11:00 am Questions and Discussion
11:00-12:00 pm CRENCO/Policy Perspectives and Data Needs for Health Planning, Health Services Ignatius Bau
California Endowment
12:00-12:20 pm Questions and Discussion
12:30-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-2:30 pm Other Pacific Islanders Mainland and Non Mainland Mae Cruz Guenther, RN
Guam Communications Network
(Chamorro)

Kaiwi Victor Pang and Ka’ala Jane Pang
Native Hawaiian Civic Club
(Native Hawaiians and Marshallese)

2:30-4:00 pm Sala S. Mataalii, RN Chairman
Samoan National Nurses Association

June Cruz Millington, Guam Communications Network

4:00-4:15 pm Questions and Discussion
4:15 pm Wrap Up
4:15 pm Adjourn