Sela Panapasa
Dr. Panapasa's research interests have centered on minority health issues with a special emphasis on the elderly in underrepresented populations. Her more recent research has focused specifically on Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (NHPI) populations in the United States and Pacific basin. She is particularly interested in health disparities between Pacific Islanders in the United States as compared to the Pacific territories of American Samoa and Guam . Her work has had an ongoing impact in policy development including contributions to the constitutional review process in Fiji where she was part of a research team that provide a demographic overview of the ethnic composition of the country required for establishing electoral districts and parliamentary allocations. Her recent work with the US census will serve as an important foundation for understanding the socioeconomic, disability, migration and demographic patterns of NHPIs. She is currently working with Professor David Williams at the University of Michigan on a project that will provide the first comprehensive set of national indicators on health, morbidity and mortality among NHPI populations in the United States.
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Minority Health Project| Department of Epidemiology UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health 2104D McGavran-Greenberg, CB#7435 | Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435 Phone 919-966-7436 | Fax 919-966-2089| E-mail Minority_Health@unc.edu |