Interviewing Dr. Martina Kamaka

Dr. Martina Kamaka is a Native Hawaiian family physician and an associate professor in the Department of Native Hawaiian Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. In this interview, Dr. Kamaka discusses how the Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islander communities were disproportionately affected during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the need to disaggregate data.

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Keywords: Native Hawaiian, community outreach, culturally-competent care, data disaggregation, medical mistrust, wellness, holistic medicine

Index

00:01:42 Serving Native Hawaiian patients

00:04:01 Culturally-competent care

00:07:54 NHPI data disaggregation

00:15:57 Community partnership and resilience

00:20:20 Initial reactions to the pandemic

00:24:46 Medical mistrust in the Native Hawaiian community

00:27:43 Localized community outreach and challenges in medical school education

00:32:28. Closing remarks and holistic medicine