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Waimānalo Health Group’s UH Leaders Earn National Award
Two campus leaders who have worked to form a part- nership among University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the people of Waimānalo have received the esteemed 2020 Robert Wood Johnson Foun- dation Community-Cam- pus Partnerships for Health Award.
the community.”
The Waimānalo Pono Re-
search principles.”
WPRH supports initia-
Jane Chung-Do, an associ- ate professor with the Office of Public Health Studies of the Thompson School of So- cial Work & Public Health, and Ilima Ho Lastimosa, the community coordinator for Waimānalo Learning Cen- ter of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Re- sources, state that they were elated that their project, the Waimānalo Pono Research Hui, was honored with the award.
Ilima Ho Lastimosa (left) and Jane Chung-Do (right) have won the prestigious 2020 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Award. PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA
“WPRH is a safe space for community members and researchers to build relation- ships and initiate programs that are culturally-ground- ed and community-driven,” states Ho-Lastimosa, who founded WPRH, and is a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner and recognized community leader. “Our goal is to honor and transfer ʻike (knowledge) and the values of our kūpuna (elders) to our keiki (children) through pono (just and balanced) re-
Over the next year, the hui’s goals are to meet the priorities that were identi- fied by the residents, which are limu (seaweed) resto- ration, ʻai pono (healthy and nourishing food) and lāʻau lapaʻau (traditional herbal Hawaiian medicine). The money from the award will be used to continue sustain- ing and supporting the com- munity programs that have been initiated to meet these priorities.
It is provided to recog- nize partnerships between community and academic institutions that are working jointly to create health eq- uity during the coronavirus
pandemic, systemic racism and economic collapse.
gramming and research that revitalize cultural practices and identity, and recognize the impacts of historical trauma and the existing strengths and resilience of
“Our hui aims to restore the health of Native Ha- waiians,” Chung-Do states. “To do that, we need pro-
“We will continue doing work with the community, by the community,” Ho Las- timosa adds.
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search Hui includes more than 50 community mem- bers and academic partici- pants. It works to improve the health of Waimānalo through education and aloha ʻāina (love of the land).
tives that promote health equity and emphasiz- ing community voice and knowledge, Chung-Do says.
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