Dr. Jake Ryann Sumibcay (he/him/his) is a health disparities researcher and health equity scholar focusing on the disparities and inequities among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) populations. His research seeks to understand the nuances in racialized representations of these communities and how they are reflected in public health policy, practice, and research to advance health equity, anti-racism, and social justice.
Dr. Sumibcay is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health in the Health Policy and Management specialization. Previously, he was a Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Health and Human Rights Fellow at Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. He earned his DrPH in Leadership and Management with a minor in Health Policy from Claremont Graduate University and is an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars Program led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.