Abstract
As the number of Asian and Pacific Islander (API) American children increases, emerging health disparities become evident, indicating several contributing factors with powerful implications for environmental risk assessment. Differential environmental exposures and social, economic, and cultural influences contribute to the vulnerability observed in these groups. This article presents an overview of the major environmental constraints faced by the API community and proposes a research agenda and protocol for translational research sensitive to this population. As health inequities are increasingly recognized among APIs, there is an urgent need for the government and the scientific research community to better coordinate health research, data collection, and epidemiological studies on this macroethnic group in order to develop more culturally informed pediatric environmental risk assessments.