Community Organizing to Influence Policy Change in Oregon for Disaggregated Data Collection.

Background: The Institute of Medicine (IOM)'s Subcommittee on Standardized Collection of Race/Ethnicity Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement recommends standardized collection of the existing Office of Management and Budget race and Hispanic ethnicity categories as well as locally relevant categories of disaggregated ethnicity and languages. The lack of category standardization hinders achieving health outcomes for many populations most at risk for increasing morbidity and mortality. In Oregon state, the need to collect data from disaggregated ethnic populations had been identified but no timeline had been established for implementation.

Community Interactive Research Workshop Series: Community Members Engaged as Team Teachers to Conduct Research.

Background: Vietnamese women are diagnosed with cervical cancer at twice the rate of non-Hispanic White women and the highest compared to Chinese, Filipino, Korean, and Japanese women. ἀ e Vietnamese Women's Health Project, a community-based participatory research partnership, was developed to address this concern. In earlier studies, community members received research training.