AAPI Health Equity
CACF leads a collaborative agenda to fight for health access and health equity for AAPI communities.
We prioritize community-driven research to better understand our community’s health needs and coalition-driven advocacy to provide policy recommendations to get these needs fully met. We work collaboratively with community members, allies, elected officials, and other relevant stakeholders to identify the pressing health issues in our community and develop and implement solutions to address them.
Working with our community and in solidarity with our allies, CACF has been leading the fight for equity in health through our leadership in collaborative advocacy and policy efforts to address pertinent health issues affecting the AAPI community in New York. Our current health equity efforts focus on language access in health care settings, data disaggregation, holistic mental health, and COVID-19 recovery. Since 2008, CACF has brought together AAPI led- and serving- community-based organizations through a health-focused collaboration called Project CHARGE. It currently consists of 17 AAPI organizational partners that share interest in health justice and racial equity to discuss our collective priorities. CACF also leads Lost in Translation, a campaign focusing on ensuring that all New Yorkers have equitable access to linguistically and culturally responsive healthcare services. In addition, CACF co-leads Access Health NYC, a city-wide initiative that funds community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide education, outreach, & assistance to all New Yorkers about how to access health care and coverage. CACF also coordinates and supports a network of culturally responsive and multilingual patient navigators to help people apply for health insurance.
By the Numbers.
21%
21% of Asian American New Yorkers are considered under-insured
40%
Almost 40% of Asian Americans in NYC are enrolled in Medicaid
PROGRAM GOAL
CACF envisions a healthcare system in which all members of the AAPI community are able to center their wellbeing, free of oppression in all of its forms. For this to occur, those in the community must be able to enter culturally responsive and linguistically accessible healthcare institutions for both their physical and mental wellbeing, regardless of their income.
Who to Contact
For more information on the AAPI Health Equity work, please contact Medha Ghosh, Senior Policy Coordinator for Health, at mghosh@cacf.org.