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Éxito! Latino Cancer Research Leadership Training

The Institute for Health Promotion Research (IHPR) at The UT Health Science Center at San Antonio conducts Éxito! Latino Cancer Research Leadership Training to increase diversity in Latino health disparities and cancer research by encouraging Latino/Hispanic master’s-level students and master’s trained health professionals to pursue a doctoral degree and a career in research.

Éxito! Testimonials

Read what Éxito! particiant Delana Gonzales and others think about the program: "Éxito! has provided me with helpful information in pursuing a PhD. I feel I have a support system with Éxito! staff."

Also check out the exciting progress our Éxito! alumni already are making.Delena Gonzales

Éxito! enhances participants' understanding of the power of research to affect change; awareness of research methods, theory and interventions; interest in cancer control; and research, networking, and motivation and ability to successfully apply to a doctoral program.

Find out more about Éxito!:

PROGRAM COMPONENTS

  • Summer Institute: 5-day event to see if a doctoral program is right, and offers tools needed to apply.
  • Paid Internships: Participants can apply for paid internships.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply for the 2013 Éxito! progam and internships. The deadline to apply is April 1, 2013.

Read our FAQ if you have application questions.

Timeline for Éxito! 2013:

  • April 1, 2013: Application Deadline (extended)
  • April 1-15, 2013: Éxito! Class of '13 Selection
  • April 16-22, 2013: Éxito! Summer Institute Attendees and Interns Notified of Selection
  • June 3-7, 2013: Éxito! Summer Institute: “Careers in Latino Cancer Control Research”
  • June 2013: Éxito! Internships Begin

CONTACT

For more info, email exito@uthscsa.edu.

FUNDING AND LEADERSHIP

The IHPR's Éxito! project is funded by a 5-year (2010-2015) training grant (No. 1R25CA134301-01A2) from the National Cancer Institute. IHPR Director Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez also is the program’s principal investigator. Other IHPR researchers involved are Kip Gallion, Cynthia Wittenburg and Rebecca Adeigbe. Dr. Rena Pasick, director of a similar training program in California, is the program’s co-principal investigator.

 Participants learned about cancer research and doctoral degree application during the first-ever Summer Institute of Exito Latino Cancer Research Leadership Training on June 2-6, 2011, in San Antonio. Exito is led by the Institute for Health Promotion Research.