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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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Raheem Baraka Makes Latino Family Health a Civil Rights Issue in Boston
Raheem J. Baraka grew up seeing health inequity all around him in Boston (19% Latino). He saw people in one low-income n…
Access
Doctor’s Mental Health & Resiliency Training for Immigrant Kids─in School!
Dr. Heyman Oo treated a lot of traumatized child immigrants while a pediatric resident at Zuckerberg San Francisco Gener…
ACES, Access
Residents Prevent Private Road from Cutting off a Trail
As an avid cyclist, Brian Pearson loved riding the new $8 million hike-and-bike trail in his town of Fall River, Mass. (…
Green & Active Spaces, Health & Cohesion, Healthy Neighborhoods & Communities, Increasing Civic Engagement, Transportation & Mobility
One Man’s Drive to Get Buses Moving in San Antonio
A few years ago, San Antonio City Council member Rey Saldaña tried his own transportation experiment. He ditched his car…
Access, Healthy Families & Schools, Healthy Neighborhoods & Communities, Transportation & Mobility
No More Us vs. Them: Trauma Training is Rebuilding Police-Community Trust
Police came to four-year-old Fatimah Muhammad’s house in Newark, N.J. (34% Latino), after an altercation between her par…
ACES, Health & Cohesion, Healthy Families & Schools, Increasing Recognition
Houston Doctor Starts Unique Clinic to Help Young Adults with Diabetes
Latino youth are facing a rising diabetes crisis. Many lack support needed to manage their disease. That’s why Dr. Sirip…
Access, Healthy Families & Schools
Minerva Perez’s Free Ride Program Helps Latinos Overcome ‘Transportation Bullies’
Minerva Perez hates bullies. In elementary school, Perez did not like when bullies picked on her friends. She became the…
Access, Healthy Families & Schools
Nurses Visit Homes to Help First-Time Moms Create Healthy Kids, Families
Sylvia Lopez knows low-income mothers need lots of support in South Texas and San Antonio. Lopez knows the research that…
Maternal & Child Health
How One National Park is Attracting Latino Visitors
Cam Juarez knows the bad stats. Latinos are just 2% of visitors to Saguaro National Park, despite being 40% of the popul…
Green & Active Spaces, Healthy Neighborhoods & Communities
Pediatricians Host Spanish-Language Health Podcast
Getting Latinos to go and see a primary care provider is hard enough. Even when they reach a doctor, many families get f…
Healthy Families & Schools