Using Digital Advocacy Strategies to Promote Public Health and Health Equity.
Monday, March 18
4:30–6 p.m. (doors open at 4 p.m.)
Hiebert Lounge
72 East Concord Street
Boston
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With the future of health in the United States at risk, too many health efforts are solely focused on downstream and midstream efforts, treatment and individual behaviors, respectively. To remedy this, an urgent focus on upstream prevention is needed. Enter the Salud America! program at UT Health San Antonio. Salud America!, led by Amelie G. Ramirez, is leading the nation in creating culturally relevant multimedia research, tools, and stories to fuel its 200,000-person network, which aims to support policy, system, and environmental changes in schools and communities that improve health equity and public health, reduce disparities, and promote lifelong well-being. In the past 12 months alone, Salud America! core network members successfully contributed to more than 250 Latino health policy changes passed or enacted by a relevant voting body.
Cohosted with Boston University Digital Learning & Innovation.
Speaker
Amelie G. Ramirez, Professor and Interim Chair, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Director, Institute for Health Promotion Research, UT Health San Antonio
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Amelie G. Ramirez is an internationally recognized health disparities researcher at UT Health San Antonio. She has 30 years of experience conducting behavioral and communications projects to reduce cancer, increase screening rates and clinical trial participation, prove the efficacy of patient navigation for cancer patients, prevent tobacco use, and improve healthy lifestyles among US Latinos. Ramirez currently directs the Salud America! national multimedia program to empower its vast network of 200,000 community leaders to drive healthy policy and system changes that promote health equity and support for Latino families (www.salud-america.org and @SaludAmerica on social media). Ramirez also directs Quitxt, a bilingual tobacco-cessation service for young Latino adults, using mobile-phone text messages; the service yielded a strong 21 percent quit rate among enrollees at follow-up. She also has trained/mentored more than 250 Latinos in health fields, and leads the Éxito! training program to help master’s-level students and professionals pursue a doctoral degree and a cancer research career. Ramirez is a Susan G. Komen Scholar and serves on the scientific advisory board for LIVESTRONG. Her recognitions include: 2007 election to the National Academy of Medicine; 2011 White House “Champion of Change”; 2014 APHA Everett M. Rogers Public Health Communication Award; and 2018 Icons in Healthcare Award from CentroMed. In Texas, Ramirez serves on the San Antonio Mayor’s Fitness Council, and is vice president of the Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas. A native of Laredo, Texas, Ramirez earned MPH and DrPH degrees from UT Health Science Center at the Houston School of Public Health.
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