title: South Asian Health. From Research to Practice and Policy: An Overview.
abstract: The US South Asian population has grown tremendously, and is now over 2.5 million. South Asians often face tremendous cultural, socioeconomic, linguistic and structural obstacles to good health, and face staggering cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer risk. Coupled with this is a paucity of detailed data on the population's unique CVD and cancer risk profiles, etiologic mechanisms, and effective interventions to address South Asian health disparities. This data gap compelled an initiative to develop more targeted research and evidence-based practice and policy approaches. The South Asian Health Initiative (SAHI), a community based participatory research partnership between the Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer and the South Asian Council for Social Services (SACSS), and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute thus partnered to effect the first national South Asian translational research endeavor, South Asian Health: From Research to Practice and Policy, summarized in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 485 Lexington Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10017, USA. ganyf@mskcc.org.|Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. ganyf@mskcc.org.|Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. ganyf@mskcc.org.|Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA. ganyf@mskcc.org.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gany
authors.affiliation: Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Latha
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Palaniappan
authors.affiliation: Ohio Perinatal Quality Collaborative, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Lakshmi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Prasad
authors.affiliation: South Asian Council for Social Services, Flushing, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Sudha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Acharya
authors.affiliation: Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 485 Lexington Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10017, USA.|Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.|Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leng
mesh_terms: D001213:Asian / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006285:Health Planning / Q000458:organization & administration; D006291:Health Policy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011050:Policy Making; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States
keywords: Health; Immigrant; Overview; South Asian; Translational research