Joseph Kaholokula, PhD,
Dr. Keawe Kaholokula is an Associate Professor and Chair of Native Hawaiian Health in the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is also a licensed clinical psychologist with a specialty in behavioral medicine.
He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 2003 and completed clinical health psychology post-doctoral fellowship in 2004 at the Triple Army Medical Center.
He is a National Institutes of Medicine (NIH) funded researcher who examines how biological, behavioral, and social factors interplay to affect a person’s risk for chronic diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, especially in Asians, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Peoples.
His research also involves developing sustainable community-based health promotion programs to address obesity, diabetes, and heart disease disparities in Hawai‘i for people of all ages.
He is also working as Principal Investigator of Center for Pacific Innovations, Knowledge, and Opportunities (PIKO), Hawaii