Who are we?

We are a group of community scientists at the University of Hawaii led by Dr. Alika Maunakea (John A. Burns School of Medicine), Dr. Ruben Juarez (UHERO/Economics), and other researchers at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine, College of Social Sciences & UHERO, and UH Cancer Center.

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Our mission is to enable diabetes prevention using community-based multidisciplinary research.

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This project is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health.