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 ...
When Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez founded the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at UT Health San Antonio in 2006, she envisioned it as a place to cultivate innovative health research and the next generation of population health leaders. 20 years later, past members of the IHPR’s team have gone on to achieve ground-breaking research, training, and other big accomplishments. Here are just a few folks we are so proud of!
Dr. Deborah Parra-Medina: From Cancer Researcher to Research Leader
Dr. Deborah Parra-Medina served as a professor at the IHPR at UT Health San Antonio from 2008 to 2016. At the IHPR, Parra-Medina led several theory-based, culturally competent research projects to increase uptake of the HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer and encourage healthy habits in ...
As of 2025, Latinos make up 20% of the U.S. population. In some areas, like California, Latinos comprise 40% of the population and are expected to rise to 50% by 2050, according to the National Latino Physician Day website. Many of these populations encounter hurdles to healthcare, including language, access, and more, leading to worse health outcomes. One way to address this is by increasing the number of Latino physicians, who only make up 6% of the physician workforce. As the nation continues to experience a shortage of health care workers, how do we increase the number of Latino physicians? That’s something National Latino Physician Day on Oct. 1, 2026, is striving to bring awareness to every year.
How Did National Latino Physician Day ...
Over the past 20 years, the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at UT Health San Antonio has worked to improve health in South Texas and beyond. The IHPR, under the leadership of Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez, built the nation’s first digital health communications program on Latino health, saved lives with culturally relevant patient navigation for women, helped people quit smoking, and more. For its 20th anniversary on Oct. 1, 2026, let’s celebrate some of our biggest milestones! Read our new booklet!
IHPR Creates the Salud America! National Digital Communications Program
Just a year into its existence, the IHPR team created the Salud America! program. The program, funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2007, became the first national digital ...
Latinos are not proportionally represented in research, nursing, and doctoral fields, even though they make up 20% of the U.S. population. The Éxito! program aimed to fill that gap. Éxito!, created by Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez of the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at UT Health San Antonio, recruited 226 students and health professionals over 11 years for a culturally tailored curriculum to promote pursuit of a doctoral degree and Latino cancer research career. With the 20th anniversary of the IHPR on Oct. 1, 2026, now is a good time to check in and see some Éxito! trainees have progressed!
About the Éxito! Program at the IHPR
Each year from 2011 to 2021, the IHPR’s Éxito! program hosted a five-day summer institute in San Antonio, Texas. The event ...
On Oct. 1, 2006, the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) was launched. This week, on Oct. 1, 2026, the IHPR will celebrate its 20th anniversary as part of the Department of Population Health Sciences in the School of Medicine at UT Health San Antonio, under the leadership of Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez. In the past two decades, the IHPR team has worked tirelessly to achieve its mission to improve the health of Latinos and all people through research, outreach, and action in South Texas and across the United States. But how did it start? Who started it? Why was it needed? Let’s answer those questions and more!
The Need for the Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR)
On April 17, 2006, the Task Force on Access to Health Care in Texas released a report, Code ...
