Navigating the public healthcare system is a challenge for anyone. It’s littered with acronyms, complicated medical and legal terms, and the information isn’t always accessible for people with disabilities or non-English-speakers. This leads to people being kicked off healthcare coverage and missed medication, treatments, and appointments, and so much more! To make the situation even more stressful, Medicaid and Medicare coverage, renewal, and eligibility are about to look very different. How do we keep people on their insurance so they get the care they need? Clave Pro Services, a Texas-based private service business, is helping Texans navigate public benefits and support services with a slew of bilingual-friendly resources to address some of the ...
From school gardens to active transportation, use the new Nutrition and Physical Activity Policy Resources Suite to improve nutrition and physical activity where you live. The suite, developed by ChangeLab Solutions and the California Department of Public Health’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Branch (NPAB), is home to resources that support policy work on nutrition and physical activity-related public health efforts. Local health departments, public health practitioners, and community leaders in any U.S. state can benefit from these resources. Let’s take a closer look into how these resources can help communities and families.
Strategies to Support Safe and Active Transportation
In ChangeLab Solutions’ resource suite, public health and community leaders can find a ...
There are 1.5 million people in the U.S. living with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Nearly 200,000 of the people living with type 1 diabetes in the US are under the age of 20. What’s more,13% of Latinos in the U.S. have T1D. “The prevalence of type 1 diabetes is increasing across all populations, most significantly among Hispanic youth,” according to Breakthrough T1D. This shows the importance of access to educational tools and resources to help Latinos and families navigate type 1 diabetes and that’s where Breakthrough T1D can help. Breakthrough T1D (formerly JDRF) is the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research and advocacy organization. With a mission to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat T1D and its complications, no organization ...
The Latino population in the United States is the largest overlooked population in the US, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. was home to 341,784,857 people as of 2025. Included is 70,145,126 Latinos, who increased their percentage of the whole population from 20% to 21% from 2024 to 2025, according to the Census Bureau. Let’s take a closer look at the numbers of Latinos in the U.S.
Population By Numbers
U.S. states that have 1 million of more Latino residents include: Arizona
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Massachusetts
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Texas
Virginia
Washington Harris County, Texas, experienced the nation’s largest gain in Latino ...
On Dec. 4, 2025, 15 cancer survivors and caregivers embarked on a journey to become patient leaders through the 2026 Latino Cancer Patient Advocate Training Program. These individuals spanned different backgrounds, cancer types, geographies, genders, and multiple organizations and came together to train as a collective group focused on helping people like them. Over 8 months, they learned how to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing cancer care environment and explored ways to transform lived experience into actionable change. They overcame cancer reoccurrences, ongoing treatment, and personal hardships to make it to the finish line and became full-fledged patient leaders, who are working to elevate their voices among decisionmakers and create new research ...
If you’re 45 or older, it’s time to step up to the plate and get screened for colon cancer. That’s the message in Abbott’s new baseball-themed bilingual ad campaign for the Cologuard Plus® test, an at-home screening tool to detect colorectal cancer. The campaign, “Mind Your Behind,” features baseball legend Albert Pujols, who was born in the Dominican Republic, and current baseball star Cal Raleigh. “Colorectal cancer screening is serious, but we talk about it doesn’t always have to be,” said Jake Orville, Abbott’s Senior Vice President, Cancer Diagnostics. “We want to make screening easier to talk about and, more importantly, easier to act on.”
About the Baseball Campaign for Colon Cancer Screening
The campaign plays it “cheeky” with the idea of ...
The Salud America! Action Pack, “How to Start Screening for the Non-Medical Drivers of Health (NMDoH),” is featured in two resource databases that help healthcare systems start addressing NMDoH with screening, referrals, and more. Find our action pack in the University of California, San Francisco's national database, the Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network (SIREN). Find our action pack in Rice University's Texas-focused database, Evidence-to-Practice for Non-Medical Drivers of Health (E2 Practice NMDOH). You can use the new Salud America! Action Pack, “How to Start Screening for the NMDoH,” to launch screening in your clinic, hospital, or healthcare system! The action pack, created by Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez at UT Health San Antonio, has a ...
Texas has a big opportunity to eliminate cervical cancer. It will take the combined impact of HPV vaccination, routine cervical cancer screening and follow-up, and timely navigation to treatment services, according to the Texas Lone Star Cervical Cancer Elimination Plan 2027-2032. The plan’s three big actions are recommended by the Cervical Cancer Elimination Priority Area Workgroup, supported by the Cancer Alliance of Texas (CAT). The workgroup includes Dr. Rebecca Jones, assistant director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio. “Texas has the tools to prevent nearly all cervical cancers, but elimination will require coordinated statewide action, sustained partnerships, and tailored and targeted strategies,” according to the ...
When Sandi Stanford was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, everything was vastly different from how we view, treat, measure, and research the disease today.
Much of that has to do with innovations in medicine, science, and technology.
However, there were far more powerful players steering the ship — survivors.
This new breed of survivors weren’t standing on the sidelines; they were educating themselves, inserting themselves in research, and having conversations that would benefit future generations of survivors.
They called themselves cancer patient advocates.
One such advocate, Sandi Stanford of San Antonio, Texas, helped pioneer programs and initiatives that transformed a cancer diagnosis into action.
Unfortunately, Sandi passed away on Aug. 29, 2026, at age 82.
While the ...
