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Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez and her team at Salud America! at UT Health San Antonio have won three Fall 2019 Digital Health Awards for promoting Latino health equity!
Digital Health Awards are given each spring and fall to recognize the world’s best digital health resources.
The awards are given by the Health Information Resource Center. The Center is a national clearinghouse for professionals who work in consumer health fields.
Here are the Salud America! award recipients:
- Bronze, Fall 2019 Digital Health Award, Web-Based Digital Health—Digital Content Curation, Salud America! Latino Health Equity Website, featuring the work of Dr. Ramirez and digital content curators Josh McCormack, Amanda Merck, Stacy Cantu, and Pramod Sukumaran.
- Bronze, Fall 2019 Digital Health Award, Digital Health Media—Audio, The Salud Talks Podcast by Salud America!, produced by Josh McCormack and Rick Carrillo.
- Bronze, Fall 2019 Digital Health Award, Social Media—Twitter, @SaludAmerica Twitter by Salud America!
Dr. Ramirez and Salud America! also won Digital Health Awards in Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018, and several years before. The program also won Communicator Awards in 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016.
“We’re excited by this ongoing stamp of approval for our communication work from the Health Information Resource Center,” said Dr. Ramirez, chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences and director of Salud America! and the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio.
“Our team puts great effort into bringing to light issues that affect Latinos across the nation.”
Learn more about how the program creates digitally curated content every day!
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