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Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez: Empowering Latino Health on CDC Podcast

Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez, leader of Salud America! at UT Health San Antonio, shares insights on Latino health on a new episode of the CDC’s Listen Up! podcast series for health communicators, by health communicators. In her episode, “Not a Monolith: Empowering Latino Health,” Ramirez covers Latino culture and health. She also shares the importance …
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Salud Talks Episode 39: Prehabilitation and What It Means for Latinos 

Most of us know what rehabilitation is. It is care that can help you get back to normal or improve skills after a disease or injury.   Unfortunately, rehab only take place retroactively—after there is an issue.   Prehabilitation, however, focuses on health before there is a problem.  Loriana Hernandez-Aldama, an Emmy award-winning journalist, author, and cancer …
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Salud Talks Podcast Episode 37: “COVID-19 and Health Disparities Impacting Latinos”

Health disparities have impacted Latinos for many years. Worse, the COVID-19 pandemic only worsened these inequities. Still, these issues have gained national attention, and, hopefully, spur action, change. Recently, experts from the National Institutes of Health and UT Health San Antonio joined our Salud Talks podcast to discuss the COVID-19, health inequities, and the struggles …
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Salud Talks Podcast Episode 44: Building Infection Control-Oriented Latino Healthcare Leaders

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for healthcare workers to have easy-to-use, informative, bilingual tools on infection control practices in the healthcare setting. With this in mind, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched Project Firstline, a training and education collaborative designed to ensure all healthcare workers, no matter their role or …
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