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Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA/NHPI) is an artificial category for US citizens whose ancestry ranges across the vast continent of Asia, including the world’s most populous countries such as China and India, and people descended from indigenous island populations scattered across the world’s largest ocean, the Pacific. For example, the distance between Honolulu, Hawaii, and Guam requires 7 hours of air travel, compared with 5 hours of air travel between Washington, DC, and San Francisco, California. The heterogeneity of the AA/NHPI population defies simplistic characterization, as they speak hundreds of languages and dialects in their homes, reflect multiple cultures, and are further differentiated by their degrees of assimilation into mainstream American life. Consequently, while research to elucidate their health challenges should ideally be based on disaggregating AA/NHPI …