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Shen on AAPI Month and Representation in Public Health

Gordon Shen, PhD, SM speaks on his experience and importance of AAPI in the field of Public Health

SM戈登·沉(Gordon Shen)助理教授讨论了他对AAPI Heritage月份的经验和重要性
Gordon Shen, PhD, SM, Assistant Professor of Management, Policy, and Community Health shares his experiences and the importance of AAPI Heritage Month

How has your race & ethnicity impacted your academic career as a faculty & student?
GS: I am a 1.5 generation immigrant from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. I consider both Hong Kong and the United States to be my homesteads. I bring up that part of my identity because it mutually informed my development as a student, later faculty. The field of public health developed significantly in my lifetime. My family and I gained a deeper understanding of public health owing to SARS, which had a deep impact on Hong Kong in 2003. Witnessing that epidemic and health disparities inspired me to enter the field, and I was among the first class to minor in public health as an undergraduate student at UCLA. I learned about the COVID-19 pandemic from reading Chinese news in late 2019. I understand the logic of China's current Zero-COVID Policy owing to my upbringing, knowledge about the Chinese health reform, and the year I spent in Beijing as a Fulbright-Fogarty Fellow. I see my academic career as a bridge between cultures and contexts.

种族/种族在您的研究中起作用吗?beplay苹果手机能用吗如果是这样,怎么样?
GS: It does. I wrote my master's thesis on failure to initiate treatment after the first onset of depression among AAPI immigrants in the U.S.. This is a statistically significant relationship I found from an analysis of the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. In the wake of recent attacks on Asian Americans, several collaborators and I looked at the USC Understanding American Study to examine how the relationship between coronavirus stigmatization is associated with psychological distress amongst Asians in the U.S.. The research showed there was a disproportionate effect on females in the nationally representative sample (article). Research has and continues to be my way of addressing matters of lived experience and reacting to societal issues that are palpable to the AAPI community.

In the intervening years, I've taken an active interest in researching China's health system reform. I would highlight the tremendous progress the Chinese government has made in strengthening its national health system since the contemporary reform launched in 2009 and compare it to the Affordable Care Act in my seminar course "Comparative Health Systems". I have an ongoing study with Yijiong Yang and Yiqun Wang, two of our doctoral students, on Chinese hospitals. Lastly, I make these important tie-ins as a Board of Advisor member of the George H.W. Bush China Foundation for U.S.-China Foundation.

How do you overcome adversity?
GS: Here, I want to bring up the African notion ofubuntu(“我是我通过别人的人”)和中国的概念guanxi,或一个关系和社交网络的系统,可以促进交易,因为我根本无法单独克服逆境,尤其是在过去两年中。像其他初级教师一样,我们兼顾研究,教学和服务承诺。beplay苹果手机能用吗我们也一直在集体处理疾病,死亡和社会运动(即黑人生活问题)。没有我的导师丽贝卡·威尔斯(Rebecca Wells)博士的社会支持,我在Uthealth Public Health的出色同事,以及其他想法(包容,多样性,公平和倡导)委员会成员,我无法克服各自专业和个人方面的逆境。。

还有一个要注意的问题,拳击会有帮助!在建议年代essions with students, I bring up when appropriate, is the quadfecta to wellness: exercise, diet, sleep, and stress management.

是什么激励和启发您?
GS:我接受了管理和组织理论的培训,当时是一名博士生,并在第一次阅读佳能中的开创性论文时会回想起。阅读研究(真正的beplay苹果手机能用吗高质量研究)仍然激励我继续在医疗保健和公共卫生部门应用和扩展社会学理论。例如,我遵循了围绕这一假设的争议,即员工流动性是密切的组织精神障碍传染的驱动力(article).

I also draw inspiration from luminaries who work in different mediums in other fields. For the purpose of this profile, the names that come to mind are I. M. Pei (architect), Ocean Vuong (poet), Anish Kapoor (sculptor), Chloe Zhao (director), and Danny Bowien (chef).

What can students, faculty, & staff do to celebrate Asian Pacific American heritage month?
GS:亚裔美国人被称为美国社会结构中必不可少的线索。他们的宝贵,多种贡献值得强调。还需要同时解决其他为期一个月的纪念活动以及重要的多样性,公平和包容日历日期。例如,可能的月份也恰好是心理健康意识月,因此应增加注意力以解决AAPI社区内的心理健康。

您能谈谈让亚洲和太平洋岛民代表公共卫生的重要性吗?
GS: It is so important. There was no road map for a scholar like me, someone whose interests lie at the intersection of management, mental health, and global health. I didn't have a reference point early in my career even though I am fortunate enough to have mentors who guided me in every stage of my training. I realized as I was rising through the ranks that I had to carve out that role in academia.

我不仅会邀请亚洲和太平洋岛民,而且有色人种成为这一代公共卫生研究人员和从业人员的一部分,尤其是那些人口关注的人。beplay苹果手机能用吗


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