Success Stories
Get inspired by our Salud Hero stories and videos, which show real champions who drive big healthy changes for our families, schools, and communities!
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Brittney Millard: Helping Patients and Persevering Through Breast Cancer
Cancer can be many things. Some describe cancer as a journey, a struggle, or a fight. For Brittney Millard, a breast cancer diagnosis was a life-changing event that gave her the passion to help other cancer survivors. “It’s really what’s in your heart. You can [help] people you know in your daily life, just spreading ...
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Latino Health Champions for Hispanic Heritage Month
In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Alliance for a Healthier Generation is sharing a series of stories a…
Increasing Recognition
Ellen Ochoa: The First Latina Astronaut to Go into Space
In 1993, Ellen Ochoa became the first Latina person in space. She logged nearly 1,000 hours in orbit across four space m…
Education, Increasing Recognition
Ángela Gutiérrez: What Éxito! Means to Me, a Latina PhD and Researcher
Dr. Ángela Gutiérrez has always been passionate about health disparities research. “I had previously worked on health di…
Education, Increasing Recognition
Cesar Chavez: A Hero Who Fought for the Rights of Latino Workers
For years, Latino farmworkers suffered at the hands of corrupt businesses who underpaid laborers and took advantage of s…
Embracing All People, Increasing Civic Engagement
Dolores Huerta: An American Latino Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist
Dolores Huerta taught us sí se puede—yes we can. This was Huerta’s rallying cry as she inspired Latino farm workers to d…
Embracing All People, Increasing Civic Engagement, Increasing Recognition
Gilberto Lopez: Combatting Vaccine Misinformation through Art
When Gilberto Lopez was visiting his family in California at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he realized his communi…
Healthy Families & Schools
Elsada Wilson: Amid Breast Cancer, Finding Hope Through a Clinical Trial
Cancer is a tough, scary, life-threatening journey, especially for women of color. That is why researchers conduct clini…
Clinical Trials
Elsada Wilson: En Medio del Cáncer de Seno, Encontré Esperanza a Través de un Estudio Clínico
El cáncer es un camino difícil, miedoso y peligroso para la vida, especialmente para las mujeres de color. Por esto es q…
Cancer, Clinical Trials, Español
Emelina Asto-Flores: Participant in a COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial to Help Latinos!
Why did Emelina Asto-Flores volunteer for a clinical trial to test a COVID-19 vaccine? Asto-Flores, a community health e…
Clinical Trials
Giselle Rincon: A Venezuelan Immigrant Sending Help to her Home Country
When Giselle Rincon decided to start a nonprofit to help immigrants and offer humanitarian aid to her home country, she…
Increasing Recognition, Understanding & Reducing Poverty