Mala Shah and Jenny Zhang promoted the Sister Study at the Good Health Day event on August 2, 2006 to approximately 1,000 women in New York City.  Mala and Jenny are health educators for the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center located in the heart of New York City's Chinatown. For more than 30 years, the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center has been a leader in providing high-quality, affordable, culturally competent health-care to the Asian American community. The majority of the Center's clients are low income, uninsured or under insured Asian immigrants with nowhere else to turn for basic healthcare. In addition to providing comprehensive primary care services, the Center promotes the health of the community through innovative, award winning health education and advocacy programs, and by recruiting and training bilingual health care providers.

Since its inception in 1971 by a group of volunteers, the Health Center has continuously expanded services to meet growing community demands and has had to be relocated several times in order to obtain adequate clinical space.

In addition to the clinical services, the Center has also nurtured and grown a generation of health, social services and other professionals for community service through their unique training and internship programs. Many of these graduates now work in Asian American community based organization throughout the country, further spreading the impact of those volunteers who came together in 1971.

With the addition of mammography services, this partnership provides good synergy with the mission of the Charles B. Wang Center.  Mala and Jenny have done an excellent job promoting the Sister Study with the hopes of recruiting more Asian American and Pacific Islander women to ensure all women are represented in the study.

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