Amplifying Asian Immigrant Women Voices through a Study on Sexual and Reproductive Health Experiences

May Sudhinaraset, PhD, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences at University of California Los Angeles’ Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, has spent her career researching the experiences of Asian immigrants. And through her work, she saw a gap, and therefore a need to learn more about their sexual and reproductive health experiences. 

Sudhinaraset and her colleagues launched the NIH-funded Bridging communities Raising API Voices for health Equity (BRAVE) Study, the first study to collect national data on the sexual and reproductive healthcare experiences of Asian immigrant women.