Jane Chung-Do, DrPH
Professor & Associate Director
Office of Public Health Studies
Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health
Ilima Ho-Lastimosa, MoA, MSW
Assistant Specialist
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
MALAMA: Nurturing Pathways for Native Hawaiian Scholars through a Community-Academic Partnership
Project Summary: MALAMA: Backyard Aquaponics to Promote Healthy Eating and Reduce Cardiometabolic Risk is one of the five-year studies under Ola HAWAII, which is a RCMI Specialized Center based at the University of Hawaii. MALAMA is a robust model of a community-campus partnership that provides a critical training ground to mentor and ensure the success of Native Hawaiian students and researchers. The goal of this proposal is to enhance the community-academic partnership that serves as an important training and mentoring opportunity for emerging scholars from underrepresented backgrounds.