EMU Today

Tsu-Yin Wu, Ph.D. RN, is a Professor and PhD Program Director in the School of Nursing. She is also the Director of the Healthy Asian Americans Project (HAAP) and Center for Health Disparities Innovation and Studies (CHDIS) at Eastern Michigan University. As a nurse-researcher-advocate, she has an active sustaining program that examines underlying causes of health disparities and her innovative community-level of interventions have bridge the gaps in breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer, and chronic diseases as well as mental health experienced by Asian Americans and Asians. Her decades of work in Asian Americans and Asians provided the much-needed evidence to demonstrate how health disparities are pervasive in Asian Americans and consequently, designed and implemented culturally-sensitive programs that promote health and well-being among underserved Asian American and Asian populations. Dr. Wu has not only transformed health care among this minority population in the United States but also throughout the world.