John Chin

John Chin, PhD, is the Principal Investigator for the Study of Asian Community Institutions (SACI), a recently completed NIH-funded study on the role that Asian immigrant community institutions play in shaping social norms that promote or impede HIV prevention efforts within Asian communities. A follow-up 5-year study on Asian immigrant religious institutions in NYC is slated to begin in early 2007. Dr. Chin was also the Project Director for an ongoing multi-site evaluation of 23 Minority AIDS Initative-funded programs, serving as the Principal Investigator during the study’s final years. Dr. Chin was a participant in the Collaborative HIV Prevention Research in Minority Communities Program at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at U.C. San Francisco, where he was a visiting assistant research scientist for three years (2003-2005). He also teaches on a part-time basis at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, where he is an assistant professor of clinical sociomedical sciences.

Immediately prior to joining the staff of The New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. Chin was Deputy Executive Director of the Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS (APICHA), a community-based organization in New York City providing a wide range of HIV prevention and direct care services. Dr. Chin was principal author and project director of multiple successful federal grants that aimed to increase access to HIV-related care and information for underserved Asian immigrant populations, including a multi-lingual HIV subway ad campaign and HIV info-line, a multi-lingual HIV counseling and testing program, and a primary medical care clinic targeting Asians and Pacific Islanders living with HIV. Dr. Chin has also authored several articles on Asians and HIV examining prevention and care issues, and has taught courses in Asian American history and Asian American communities at Columbia University, New York University and Hunter College. Dr. Chin received an MS in urban policy analysis from the New School for Social Research, and MPhil and PhD degrees in urban planning from Columbia University, where his studies focused on international migration and immigrant communities, and health planning.

Contact information: (212) 419-3537, jchin@nyam.org

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