Joseph Keaweʻaimoku Kaholokula is Chair of Native Hawaiian Health at John A. Burns School of Medicine. His work on health disparities focuses on identifying the biomedical, behavioral, and socio-cultural factors associated with cardiometabolic related diseases and developing and testing community-based interventions to address these diseases in Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. Kaholokula earned his PhD and MA in Clinical Psychology at UH Mānoa.