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The American Heart Association, Pfizer, and Gates Ventures awards five new grants to 10 universities and health care systems. HONOLULU — Research scientists from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) John A. Burns Medical School (JABSOM) Department of Native Hawaiian Health (DNHH), in partnership with colleagues from nine universities and health care systems, will […]

Race categories have been included in the U.S. Census since 1790 and have changed repeatedly to reflect the politics and social attitudes of the times. In 1997, the U.S. Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) acknowledged that race and ethnicity categories were social-political constructs and not anthropologically or scientifically based. The 1997 OMB Directive […]

The keiki of Kōkua Kalihi Valley, Kalihi-Palama Health Center, and the Queen Emma Clinic will be great readers thanks to a few JABSOM students who helped raise money and developed grant proposals to assure the blossoming readers would receive unused, shiny and new, culturally sensitive, and bilingual books at their well-child visits. An anonymous shout […]

One of the distinguished speakers for the symposium “Humanism, Empathy, Social Justice, and Global Health,” during Humanism Week 2022 at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) was activist, physician, and anthropologist Dr. Paul Farmer, who spoke of “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola in West Africa.” From Rwanda, Farmer appeared via Zoom on Wednesday […]

Select states and universities, including the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (UH JABSOM) are participating in the REsearching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative, recently launched by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to solve the puzzle of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (PASC), also known as Long COVID.  The […]

The University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) has been awarded a grant of $317,955 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in particular, the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHHD), for Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI). This grant titled ‘Hawaii Data Science Training for RCMI Researchers’ is […]