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Salud Talks Podcast Episode 48: Road to Survivorship: Understanding Innovations in Breast Cancer Diagnoses
As we celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, Salud America! is having important conversations about how breast cancer trends impact communities and populations in South Texas and beyond. Breast cancer is the most common ...
8 Things to Know About Latina Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Latinas. Despite advances in prevention and treatment, ...
Growing the Next Generation of Health Leaders at the IHPR at UT Health San Antonio
When Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez founded the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at UT Health San Antonio in 2006, she ...
3 Tips to Prepare for Severe Weather and Potential Flooding
Flooding accounts for about 11% of all billion-dollar weather and climate disaster events in the U.S., according to the ...
National Latino Physician Day: Closing the Gap in the Latino Workforce
As of 2025, Latinos make up 20% of the U.S. population. In some areas, like California, Latinos comprise 40% of the ...
20 Years of Improving Latino Health for the IHPR at UT Health San Antonio
Over the past 20 years, the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at UT Health San Antonio has worked to improve ...
Latino Cancer Survivors: Add Your Voice to Nuestras Voces
Latinos face a heavy cancer burden. Driven by issues with language, finances, transportation, and more, Latinos are ...Browse our articles
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Salud America! is daily curating information on healthy changes via toolkits, data, webinars and other educational materials to support you in creating healthy changes in your area.
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Get the latest stories, research, and news on different aspects of health among Latinos and all people, including obesity, cancer, and the non-medical drivers of health.
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Salud America! focuses on topics of potential change to promote healthy changes for Latino and all families. Each topic has a scientific research review and bilingual issue brief, video, and infographics.
Salud Heroes
They are people like you—children, parents, teachers, health workers—who learn of childhood obesity, get an idea to do something about it, mobilize support, and drive policy and system changes in schools and communities.
Resources
These curated resources are great nuts-and-bolts guides to healthy changes, as well as helpful content and data that can help you build a case for a decision-maker.
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Training Latino Cancer Researchers with the Éxito! Program at the IHPR at UT Health San Antonio
Latinos are not proportionally represented in research, nursing, and doctoral fields, even though ...
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A Mission to Serve: How Dr. Marcela Mazo Canola is Living Her Dream Providing Cancer Care
Become a politician? Work in a health ministry? As a young girl growing up in Colombia, Dr. ...
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Happy 20th Anniversary to the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at UT Health San Antonio
On Oct. 1, 2006, the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) was launched. This week, ...
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