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Thoa Nguyen of San Francisco, CA, is project director of the Health Is Gold - Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project at the University of California, San Francisco. Ms. Nguyen is bilingual in Vietnamese and English. Ms. Nguyen is now the coordinator of the project "REAChing Vietnamese Women: A Community Model for Promoting Cervical Cancer Screening" (CDC grant) and Regional Community Director of Asian American Network For Cancer Awareness, Research and Training (AANCART). She is the executive producer of four Vietnamese health education videotapes and the author of printed materials and several articles to promote preventive health care, hepatitis B immunization, breast and cervical screening. Ms. Nguyen has over 30 years experience in the health field. Throughout her career, Ms. Nguyen has promoted issues of access, service, and equity to health care for underserved Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Ms. Nguyen has received national and local awards for her work in the community. | 