Current Projects
Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national program geared to unite and increase the number of Latino scientists engaged in research on Latino childhood obesity to seek environmental and policy solutions to the epidemic.
Redes En Acción: The National Latino Cancer Research Network (CNP), established in 2000 and continued in 2005 as this Community Networks Program of the National Cancer Institute, is dedicated to developing a national infrastructure of academic centers, community and federal partners and local and regional health professionals, civic leaders and researchers to stimulate cancer control research, awareness and training.
A Patient Navigator Intervention to Improve Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Outcomes among Hispanic Women aims to improve breast and cervical cancer outcomes among Hispanic women and address cancer-related health disparities using patient navigators – trained community health workers who aid patients in use of care services.
Genetic Evaluation for Breast Cancer Susceptibility in Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Women in South Texas is studying how genetic counseling impacts women’s awareness, perceptions, and decisions about genetic testing to spur culturally sensitive interventions that promote informed decision-making among Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites for breast cancer counseling and testing.
The Increasing Access of Latinas into Breast Cancer Clinical Trials project, funded by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, hypothesizes that culturally appropriate methods and comprehensive approaches are necessary to increase the participation of Latinos in clinical trials.
Increasing recruitment of patients from the Texas-Mexico Border Region into Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Clinical Trials uses patient navigation to increase recruitment of children from Texas’ Lower Rio Grande Valley into clinical trials.
The San Antonio Tobacco Control and Prevention Coalition is a partnership between the IHPR and the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District to create and promote a “smoke-free” San Antonio by significantly reducing and preventing tobacco use through a social norming campaign and increased knowledge and use of accessible, effective resources.
Feasibility Studies for Collaborative Interaction for Minority Institutions/Cancer Centers stimulates research and training collaborations between The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and UT Pan American to increase the cancer research base on the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly involving Latinas and genetic testing.
ENLACE: A Partnership to Promote Physical Activity Among Mexican Immigrant Women, is a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-funded program that uses a community-based participatory research approach to identify and understand factors that influence physical activity behavior for Mexican immigrant women in South Carolina and Texas.
The Heart Healthy and Ethnically Relevant Lifestyle program, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, aims to evaluate the efficacy of combining a theory-based, community health care center-based behavioral counseling intervention with telephone counseling and tailored print materials to promote a low-fat diet and physical activity among financially disadvantaged African American women.
San Antonio Life Sciences Institute (SALSI) Health Disparities Research Forum brings together health disparities researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and UT San Antonio to stimulate interests and opportunities for future collaboration and communication.