From Race and Ethnicity as Proxy Variables to Measuring What It Means: The Next Evolution of Health Equity Research.

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Joseph Keawe'aimoku Kaholokula is a professor and chair of Native Hawaiian Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu.

Published: October 2025


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