Community Health Resources & Needs Assessment (CHRNA) Reports

NYU CSAAH’s Community Health Resources and Needs Assessment (CHNRA) project is a large-scale health needs assessment initially conducted in diverse, low-income Asian American communities in New York City. The project uses a community-engaged and community venue-based approach to assess existing health issues, available resources, and best approaches to meet community needs. A first round of CHRNAs was undertaken in 2004-2006. A second round was undertaken in 2013-2016 to assess population changes, population health improvements, and changes in risk and protective factors over the prior decade.

Learn more about our research process by visiting our NYU CSAAH nyu.edu webpage with additional background history of our CHRNA.

View our CHRNA community reports from Wave 1 (2004-2006) and Wave 2 (2013-2016) by clicking on the community reports below. Check out our Community Reports to learn more about our survey findings in each community.

2004 – 2006 Community Reports

CSAAH continues its efforts to develop formative research projects such as the Asian American Community Health Resources and Needs Assessments in NYC.

The primary purposes of these assessments are to determine:

  • The degree to which  health issues exist in ethnic-specific Asian American community
  • The resources available
  • The best approaches to meet the needs of these communities in New York City.

The first such assessment was developed in 2004 to better understand the health needs and resources available in the Filipino American community. Since then, similar efforts have been implemented in the Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, South Asian, Vietnamese, and Japanese communities in NYC.

An Exploratory Study of
Cambodians in the Bronx
An Exploratory Study of
Chinese in NYC
An Exploratory Study of Filipino
Americans in the New York
Metropolitan Area
An Exploratory Study of
Koreans in NYC
An Exploratory Study of
South Asians in NYC
An Exploratory Study of
Vietnamese in NYC

2013 – 2016 Community Reports


Arab
CHRNA
Bangladeshi
CHRNA
Cambodian
CHRNA
Chinese
CHRNA

Filipino
CHRNA
Himalayan CHRNA (English)
Himalayan CHRNA (Nepali)
Indian
CHRNA

Indo-Caribbean
CHRNA
Japanese
CHRNA
Korean
CHRNA
Pakistani
CHRNA

Vietnamese
CHRNA

Data Access
You may request access to view these archived CHRNA datasets. To do so, please see the links below.

Asian American Community Health Resources and Needs Assessment (2004-2006) dataset: https://datacatalog.med.nyu.edu/dataset/10103

Asian American Community Health Resources and Needs Assessment (2013-2016) dataset: https://datacatalog.med.nyu.edu/dataset/10483

Additional CHRNAs

Regional CHRNA

In 2021, we expanded our CHRNA effort to conduct Wave 3 (Regional CHRNA). In this collaborative effort, CSAAH partnered with three regional partners to assess the health needs and existing resources of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities: Center for Pan Asian Community Services (CPACS) in Atlanta, GA, Asian Pacific Community in Action (APCA) in Phoenix, AZ, National Tongan American Society in Salt Lake City, UT.

Wave 3 CHRNA was conducted primarily using REDcap, a secure, web-based software platform designed to support data capture for research studies (web survey vs. print survey). Previously, NYU CSAAH administered the CHRNA survey in low-income, diverse Asian American communities based in New York City. Publically available community reports from these survey efforts are forthcoming!

NYC COVID-19 CHRNA

Click here to learn more about our 2021 NYC COVID-19 CHRNA effort and view in-language community reports.