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Elana Behar emailElana Behar is the project director for Involvement of Immigrant Religious Organizations in Health/HIV, an NIH-funded study that seeks to examine the potential for Chinese churches and Buddhist temples for being involved in HIV education and prevention activities. Prior to her work on this study at Hunter College, Elana worked at the New York Academy of Medicine and was involved in various research projects having to do with understanding and learning how to remove barriers to health care for people with HIV/AIDS, and a research project assessing how NYC pharmacies explain prescription medicines to limited English proficient New Yorkers. Elana received an MA in Applied Anthropology from Montclair State University, and a BA from Grinnell College.
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Min Ying Li emailMin Ying Li is a Research Associate for Involvement of Immigrant Religious Organizations in Health/HIV, an NIH-funded research project to examine the potential role of Chinese religious organization for being involved in HIV education and prevention. Min Ying received her B.A. in Social Work and Psychology from Syracuse University and MSW from Columbia University, with concentration in Public Policy. During her academic education, she proposed and implemented an exploratory study to measure how acculturative stress, parental involvement and academic achievement related to the psychological well-being among recent Chinese immigrant adolescents in order to debunk the myth of the Model Minority and advocate for educational reform targeting a growing population at risk. The study was presented at the Society of Society for Research in Child Development 2007 biennial conference's poster session. In addition, she worked as a research assistant to analyze ethnographic data and examine the impact of maternal work-related stress on child outcomes as a result of the Welfare Reform as part of the New Hope Project. Aside from her research background, she interned at the YMCA of Greater New York, where she worked closely with the Department of Public Affairs on projects regarding public relations, funding activities and the development of the New American Welcome Center.
