Addressing AAPI Health Needs in the Context of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing challenges Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) face in accessing healthcare: language access, barriers for immigrant populations, lack of data disaggregation, and lack of community resources. AAPIs also have increased vulnerability to COVID-19 due to higher representation in specific labor sectors. These challenges take place in the context of increasing anti-Asian hate and xenophobia. This article focuses on one organization addressing these challenges: the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum (APIAHF). We will describe how APIAHF is using narrative change, structural change, and community change to address pandemic-related emergent and longer-term needs and how funding structures and critical partnerships with a variety of stakeholders support these efforts

Forging a Path Toward Health Equity in 2040

Dramatic shifts in the demographic makeup of the U.S. population in 2040 will pose new challenges and opportunities for policy makers, researchers, and community members working to address health and health care inequities. Traditional approaches utilizing a health disparities framework may not be enough to address the health needs of an increasingly diverse and multiracial population of Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs). This article provides an overview of the current and projected health and health care needs of Asian Americans and NHPIs in 2040, and proposes new policy solutions and frameworks for addressing these complex needs

Forging a Path Toward Health Equity in 2040

Dramatic shifts in the demographic makeup of the U.S. population in 2040 will pose new challenges and opportunities for policy makers, researchers, and community members working to address health and health care inequities. Traditional approaches utilizing a health disparities framework may not be enough to address the health needs of an increasingly diverse and multiracial population of Asian Americans and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPIs). This article provides an overview of the current and projected health and health care needs of Asian Americans and NHPIs in 2040, and proposes new policy solutions and frameworks for addressing these complex needs

Evaluation and intercomparison of global atmospheric transport models using Rn-222 and other short-lived tracers

Simulations of Rn-222 and other short-lived tracers are used to evaluate and intercompare the representations of convective and synoptic processes in 20 global atmospheric transport models. Results show that most established three-dimensional models simulate vertical mixing in the troposphere to within the constraints offered by the observed mean Rn-222 concentrations and that subgrid parameterization of convection is essential for this purpose. However, none of the models captures the observed variability of Rn-222 concentrations in the upper troposphere, and none reproduces the high Rn-222 concentrations measured at 200 hPa over Hawaii. The established three-dimensional models reproduce the frequency and magnitude of high- Rn-222 episodes observed at Crozet Island in the Indian Ocean, demonstrating that they can resolve the synoptic-scale transport of continental plumes with no significant numerical diffusion. Large differences between models are found in the rates of meridional transport in the upper troposphere (interhemispheric exchange, exchange between tropics and high latitudes). The four two-dimensional models which participated in the intercomparison tend to underestimate the rate of vertical transport from the lower to the upper troposphere but show concentrations of Rn-222 in the lower troposphere that are comparable to the zonal mean values in the three-dimensional models

Proceedings of The HKIE Geotechnical Division 42nd Annual Seminar: A New Era of Metropolis and Infrastructure Developments in Hong Kong, Challenges and Opportunities to Geotechnical Engineering

This seminar proceedings contain articles on the various research ideas of the academic community and practitioners presented at The HKIE Geotechnical Division 42nd Annual Seminar (GDAS2022). GDAS2022 was organized by the Geotechnical Division, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers on 13th May 2022. Seminar Title: The HKIE Geotechnical Division 42nd Annual SeminarSeminar Acronym: GDAS2022Seminar Date: 13 May 2022Seminar Location:  Hong KongSeminar Organizers: Geotechnical Division, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers Link to the GDAS2021 Proceedings: Proceedings of The HKIE Geotechnical Division 41st Annual Semina