received the 2019 Paul Cornely Award at the annual Health Activist Dinner and the C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in Asian American Studies at UCLA, and was named a Pioneer in Minority Health & Health Disparities by the National Institute of Minority Health & Health Disparities. He was appointed to a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee; the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 2020 Steering Committee for Sharing Knowledge to Build a Culture of Health; FEC Chair for UCLA Asian American Studies; and as interim senior editor for AAPI Nexus Journal: Policy, Practice, and Community.