Stella Yi

Stella Yi is an Associate Professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Population Health, Section for Health Equity.  Dr. Yi is a researcher focused on health equity and social justice for Asian American and other immigrant communities. Her specific content area expertise is on community-partnered and culturally appropriate initiatives focused on nutrition and eating, cardio-metabolic disease and the collection of disaggregated race/ethnicity data at the local and state levels. She possesses a unique viewpoint on health, policy and research that encompasses a population-level perspective paired with an understanding of unique health needs of disparity subgroups. Dr. Yi received her Masters in Public Health in Chronic Disease Epidemiology/Social Behavioral Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health and her doctorate in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.