Native Hawaiian health | University of Hawaiʻi System News

Native Hawaiian and African American smokers have high risk of lung cancer

February 6, 2019

A new study by the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center found that for the same amount of smoking, Native Hawaiians and African Americans have twice the risk of getting lung cancer.

Helping Waimānalo families use aquaponics, improve health

October 8, 2018

Three researchers have won a national fellowship and will receive $350,000 funding over three years.

UH Hilo to research high rate of HIV/AIDS in Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders

October 5, 2018

Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are in the top three ethnicities with the highest rates of HIV diagnoses in the country.

Marjorie Mau honored with Creighton University alumni award

September 26, 2017

Mau, one of only three women to receive the alumni merit award in the school’s history, was also asked to deliver a keynote lecture addressing health disparities.

Diabetes center established at JABSOM with $11.2 million federal grant

August 8, 2017

The grant will intensify Hawaiʻi-based research into a disease that currently affects 155,000 adults and children—1 in 9 individuals in Hawaiʻi.

Researchers find potential signature of cognitive function in people living with HIV

September 19, 2016

UH researchers identify a unique footprint in specific types of immune cells from blood that can identify individuals with HIV that have impairments in cognitive function.

Aspiring medical students present summer internship projects

August 12, 2016

JABSOM and Queen’s Medical Center collaborate to recruit student researchers into graduate studies, careers.

Marjorie Mau first Native Hawaiian woman ranked master physician

May 10, 2016

UH Professor Marjorie Mau has become the first Native Hawaiian woman to be recognized with the title of master physician by the American College of Physicians.

ʻOhana establishes scholarship for aspiring UH West Oʻahu nurses

April 1, 2016

$10,000 will help fund scholarship for UH West Oʻahu pre-nursing students studying culturally competent ways to work with Native Hawaiian communities.

Native Hawaiian health programs receive $3M Queen’s Health Systems investment

February 1, 2016

Queen’s Health Systems invests nearly $3 million for education and community programs to improve Native Hawaiian health.