Please find their community flyers, in a variety of languages available here (English, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese)ħ0 million people living with diabetes in India and diabetes kills 1 million Indians each year. This project seeks to support medical care access with a comprehensive list of free/low-cost clinics offering interpretive services in AANHPI languages in the Bay Area (San Francisco and Santa Clara counties). The high prevalence of linguistic isolation and lack of health insurance suggests that many AANHPI community members in the Bay Area face challenges accessing health care. One in five (Bay Area) API households are linguistically isolated, meaning that no member aged 14 and above speaks English “very well.” Additionally, the uninsured rate is higher than the state average in certain AANHPI groups, such as the Korean community (15%), new immigrants (11.6%), and those with limited English proficiency (17.8%).

The Bay Area has long been home to a large, fast-growing, and diverse community of AANHPI native-born residents and immigrants. Jison Hong, to assess AANPHI health and healthcare access in the Bay Area, with a focus on language barriers. Stanford medical students in APAMSA, Ji Hae Lee and Jacqueline Yao, are working with Stanford CARE faculty member, Dr. Stanford’s Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA) and CARE are two organizations committed to advocating for improved access to healthcare for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities.

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