NICOS Chinese Health Coalition (華人健康組織聯會)

04/18/2026

Hear both sides of the debate

Immigration experts clash over mass deportations at the Common Ground conference, debating humanity, law, and America’s future.

04/17/2026

Oh, those homonyms...! 😂

“It feels like I am one step closer to the green card after having a Chick-fil-A meal,” says Zhou Yilu, an AI software engineer in his late 30s.

04/16/2026

"Watching her sleep peacefully after a busy day, a question kept coming back to me: Which system is better for early education?"

In China, Grace Cong Sui received daily updates from her daughter's school about eating, napping, and mood — more insight than she ever got in Los Angeles.

04/15/2026

"From 2023 to 2024, Hopkins’ first-year class jumped from 26% to 41% Asian."

After the Supreme Court banned race-based admissions, Asian representation at Johns Hopkins soared, while Black and Hispanic numbers fell.

04/15/2026

"The Chen family shot to social media stardom over their shared career, good looks and closeness – all achieved without tiger parenting"

The Chen family shot to social media stardom over their shared career, good looks and closeness – all achieved without tiger parenting.

04/14/2026

Celebrated 🍾 a staff birthday 🎂 today!

04/12/2026

Larry Itliong, known by many to be the true igniter of the farm workers movement, was influenced greatly by Carlos Bulosan, author of “America Is in the Heart”

"The great Delano grape strike began on September 8, 1965, when Filipino pickers refused to leave their labor camps and enter the fields."

The myth that Cesar Chavez single-handedly led the farmworker movement was never true. Nothing makes this clearer than the life and work of Larry Itliong.

04/12/2026

From our friends at San Francisco State University!

filipinx student wellbeing conference, mental health, youth conference, filipino youth,

04/11/2026

NICOS is a Community Advisory Board (CAB) member of this UCSF ASPIRE cancer study. Please consider signing up to be a part of the study if you are qualified!

04/10/2026

"Why are Filipino faces still missing on-screen? Post-colonial ideology continues to dictate to Filipinos in the diaspora how we think about ourselves, and how much we fight to see ourselves represented in American media."

Hollywood's diversity is skewed at best, and some demographics remain critically underrepresented. As a Fil-Am, sometimes it's all I can see; we're prevalent in our communities, but forgotten onscreen. Why are Filipino faces still missing in mainstream American media?

04/09/2026

An Asian comedian used to joke, "In Oklahoma, my apartment was Chinatown," highlighting the lack of Asian Americans in that state

"Asian people occupied a strange space in my alma mater’s social hierarchy. Our identities served as punchlines, and in order to bid for a spot in the in-group, you had to mock the same community that raised you."

If Tulsa, Oklahoma, taught me how to withstand being othered, my experiences at Vanderbilt are teaching me that I deserve more than endurance.

04/08/2026

It is finally becoming clear to some that ICE is targeting more than one immigrant community of color

"Many in my Indian American community of mom-and-pop motel operators remained fairly insulated over the years — until immigration agents started showing up at our doors."

"In a few short weeks, it became clear that whatever ICE’s marching orders, South Asians were being hunted, too," Dr. Sachin B. Patel writes. "We learned that our insularity does not guarantee impermeability."