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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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Police Chief, Superintendent Start Program to Support Traumatized Kids
Police Chief Darren Gault believes kids deserve more support in avoiding risky behaviors. Gault knows when police office…
ACES
Amanda Merck: Propelling Civic Engagement in San Antonio and Beyond
Amanda Merck isn’t only a content curator for Salud America! at UT Health San Antonio, a member of many health committee…
Transportation & Mobility
From Living in a Sick Home to Making Others’ Healthy
Bill Hayward learned a disturbing truth when he ventured into the crawlspace underneath his home. For a year, he, his wi…
Air Quality, Chemical & Toxic Exposure
Teen ‘Photovoice’ Sparks a Community Health Revolution
They say a picture can illustrate what at times words cannot. That is what drove Jayme Hannay to lead a decade-long proj…
Increasing Civic Engagement
Alison Corcoran: Why We All Must Stand Up to Bias, Health Inequity
As a white woman living in Boston who grew up all around the world, privileged and well-educated, Alison Corcoran was a…
Access, Increasing Recognition
This City Ditched its Car-Centric Traditions to Better Serve All Transportation Users
Fred Dock knows that, as cities grow, managing transportation gets tougher. Dock, who headed up transportation for Pasad…
Transportation & Mobility
Dr. Jabraan Pasha: Tearing Down Implicit Bias in the Doctor’s Office
In training, doctors and other healthcare providers are taught to disregard their own personal upbringings, and that of…
Increasing Recognition
Kelly Capatosto: Shedding New Light on Implicit Bias
What is the motivation behind your day job? For Kelly Capatosto, it is her family and the Latino population. Capatosto,…
Increasing Recognition
4 Latino Leaders Eliminating Food Insecurity in Texas
U.S. Latinos face high levels of poverty, food swamps, and food insecurity—living without reliable access to enough affo…
Healthy Food
Doctor Fights for Climate Crisis Intervention in Healthcare, Education
In 2006, Dr. Susan E. Pacheco experienced a stark paradigm-shift due to an inconvenient truth. She learned that the Eart…
Chemical & Toxic Exposure