Chau Trinh-Shevrin, DrPH is Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Medicine at New York University (NYU). For nearly a decade, Dr. Trinh-Shevrin has dedicated her research and career to focusing on understanding, addressing, and reducing health disparities in Asian American populations. Dr. Trinh-Shevrin is currently the Director and one of the original founders of the NYU Center for the Study of Asian American Health (CSAAH). Dr. Trinh-Shevrin is the Research PI of the NIH National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities P60 Project EXPORT (Excellence in Partnerships, Outreach, Research, and Training) and the P60 Research Center of Excellence grants ? two awards that support CSAAH?s infrastructure for research and community engagement. In her role as Director of CSAAH, Dr. Trinh-Shevrin oversees all research and grant development activities and serves on several national advisory boards that focuses on the health of Asian Americans. She currently is the co-PI on the NIH Project AsPIRE (Asian American Partnerships in Research and Empowerment), a community health worker intervention aimed to reduce hypertension and cardiovascular disease in Filipino Americans. Dr. Trinh-Shevrin is also a co-investigator and Acting Director of the Asian American Hepatitis B Project, a collaborative partnership of NYU, community-based organizations, health care providers, and city government that provides direct health education, outreach, screening, vaccination, and treatment services for individuals at risk for hepatitis B in New York City. She is a co-investigator of the Centers for Disease Control sponsored Center of Excellence to Eliminate Disparities in Hepatitis B at NYU. Dr. Trinh-Shevrin was the PI of two NCI-funded pilot projects that focused on breast, cervical, colorectal, and prostate cancer prevention in New York City Chinese, Haitian, and Mexican-American communities. Before assuming the role and responsibility of CSAAH, Dr. Trinh-Shevrin was the Lead Epidemiologist for the NYU Institute for Urban and Global Health. Prior to her work at NYU, Dr. Trinh-Shevrin worked on health interventions aimed at other minority and underserved populations. At Columbia, she was involved in needs assessment activities and HIV research that focused on the health of African Americans living in Harlem and Washington Heights. She was also a research associate for a program at Beth Israel Medical Center that focused on the health needs of injecting drug users and a gender-sensitive drug treatment program at Lincoln Hospital that focused on crack-addicted women living in the Bronx. She is a co-editor on the book Empowerment and Recovery: Confronting Addiction during Pregnancy with Peer Counseling. Dr. Trinh-Shevrin received her Bachelors of Arts and her Masters of Science in Health Policy and Health Behaviors at the State University of New York at Albany. She received her doctorate from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a dissertation fellowship from the Commonwealth Foundation.