Success Stories
Get inspired by our Salud Hero stories and videos, which show real champions of change who drive policies and environments for health equity in families, schools and communities!
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Rosa Herrera: Get the Vaccine for Your Family!
Rosa Herrera knows how difficult the battle with COVID-19 can be. Two of her daughters were really sick with COVID-19 in October 2020 and were hospitalized during their infections. Herrera herself got sick, too, but had a mild case. “It was really scary. I couldn’t see them and since both of them were hospitalized at ...
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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 Immigrants, 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 Immigrants, Increasing Civic Engagement, Overcoming Harmful Biases
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
Zo Mpofu & Dakisha Wesley: Forging Alliances to Declare Racism a Public Health and Safety Crisis
Zo Mpofu believes protecting the health of mothers and babies in childbirth is a moral responsibility. That is why it al…
Trauma & ACES, Understanding & Reducing Poverty
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…
Overcoming Harmful Biases, Understanding & Reducing Poverty
Chris David: Get the Vaccine So Business Can Go Back to Normal!
Chris David is ready for the pandemic to be over. It’s dramatically hurt his business and taken friends and family away…
COVID-19, Vaccines
Nelly Jiménez: Get the COVID-19 Vaccine to Protect Your Family, Community!
Nelly Jiménez knows how difficult it is to suffer from severe COVID-19 illness. Her husband was hospitalized with COVID…
COVID-19, Vaccines