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- Personhood (2012): worked with ASRM, RESOLVE (the National Infertility Association), Dr. Howard Jones and others to successfully oppose H.B.1, a “Personhood” bill which would have criminalized in-vitro fertilization, contraception, and ectopic pregnancy management in the Commonwealth of Virginia
- New York City Coalition for a Smoke-free City (2002-2004):
served on the Executive Council of the NYC Coalition for a Smoke-free
City, working with the American Cancer Society and the Medical Society of the
State of New York to pass Intro 256-A (Smokefree Workplaces Act of 2002),
banning smoking in all bars, restaurants, nightclubs, billiard halls, and bingo
parlors in New York City (passed December 2002) and New York State (passed
March 2003)
- SUNY Medical Student Executive Council (2001-2003):
organized medical student to lobby against mid-year and retroactive
tuition increases at the SUNY public medical schools in New York
- Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Health
Initiative (1999): led national effort by the American Pacific
American Medical Student Association (APAMSA) to help successfully lobby for a
White House Excecutive Order to establish the AAPI Health Initiative
- CDC National Task Force on Hepatitis B Immunizations,
Focus on Asians and Pacific Islanders (1997-1999): organized medical students to establish programs
to vaccinate middle-school children against Hepatitis B in New
York, Boston and Chicago