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Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula, PhD:
“This is an unprecedented partnership and initiative in Hawai‘i to support talented junior researchers in doing culturally responsive and community-engaged research to improve the health and wellbeing of Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, Filipinos, and other health disparate populations.”
Neal Palafox, MD, MPH:
“Achieving health equity in Hawai‘i’s marginalized populations requires a dedicated and sustained investment in relevant discovery and problem solving, tasks that belong to the people of these communities.”
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