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Apply now for a “digital content curator” position with our communication team at Salud America!, our national Latino health equity organization based at the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at UT Health San Antonio.

This position involves using content curation to write, edit, and communicate health content and messages.

Activities include:

  • establish and maintain relationships with key partners/stakeholders/organizations
  • mine internal and external media/online resources to identify, collect, organize, write, edit, and schedule various digital and multimedia content types to promote on Salud America!’s online, social, and email platforms.
  • Participate in other projects of the IHPR as directed, including: writing and editing technical documents, scientific publications, grant proposals, and other various content; creating and delivering scientific abstracts, posters and presentations; social media, mass email, and graphic content creation and management; representing the IHPR at community events and as part of community groups; etc.

A bachelor’s degree is required in communications, journalism, public health, technical writing, sociology, political science environmental science, or a related field in the sciences and/or humanities, as well as 3-to-5 five years in writing, communications, public relations, or a related field.

Latinos are a rising U.S. powerhouse, but they face barriers to be their healthiest and suffer high rates of obesity and other health inequities.

Salud America! creates culturally relevant and research-based stories, videos, and tools to inspire people to start and support healthy changes to policies, systems, and environments where Latino and all children and families can equitably live, learn, work, and play.

The program’s award-winning multimedia communications help our social and online network—more than 200,000 moms and dads, providers, and community and school leaders—push for healthy changes in the areas of Healthy Families and Schools, Healthy Neighborhoods and Communities, and Healthy and Cohesive Cultures.

Salud America! is led by health disparities researcher Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez and supported by a passionate team of communicators at UT Health San Antonio, thanks to funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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