AAMPLIFY HEALTH

Promoting the health and wellbeing of Asian American Pacific Islander through research, advocacy, and all creative ways possible

About

Despite Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) being the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S., the representation of this minority group in medical research and clinical trials lags behind. With their medical needs ignored and in-group nuances unrecognized, we cannot achieve health equity as a nation.

aaMpLiFY Health, Corp. is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to promote inclusion of the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) in the field of medicine and public health. We support high school and college students in initiating research, advocacy, or projects in any other creative forms to engage with the AAPI community and raise awareness around health problems faced by them.

0.38%

Fact 1

In 2018, only 0.38% of NIH clinical research expenses went to AANHPI research studies

1.7%

Fact 2

AAs made up only 1.7% of patients for drugs for which at least 70% of a trial was conducted in the U.S.

20.8%

Fact 3

Only 20.8% of Asian adults with a mental illness received treatment in 2020