UT Health San Antonio gets $4 million to improve cancer outreach and outcomes for Latinos.
First Lady Jill Biden, right, hugs cancer patient Rainee Miller during a visit to the Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio in 2022.The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio aims to reduce cancer-related health disparities affecting the Latino community in South Texas with the help of a $4.1 million grant from the American Cancer Society.will be led by Dr.
“Our new center is really taking aim at the inequities that are keeping Latinos from equitable access to cancer care, prevention, early detection, and treatment,” Ramirez said in a written statement. “We feel that our multiple levels of activity - research, training and mentoring, and community education - can address these inequities and prevent South Texans from getting cancer, while also improving cancer outcomes, survivorship, and quality of life into the future.
Dr. Amelie Ramirez directs the Institute for Health Promotion Research and chairs the Department of Population Health Sciences at UT Health San Antonio. She is the associate director of cancer outreach and engagement at the Mays Cancer Center.
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