Projects
Featured Projects
Avanzando Caminos
Share your cancer story with the Avanzando Caminos study team, and help us learn more about the many influences on life after cancer!
Quitxt Quit Smoking Text Messages!
IHPR’s Quitxt program is a free texting service on your phone with online support in English or Spanish to help South Texans quit smoking.
Avanzando Salud Center
The Avanzando Salud Center is pioneering innovative methods to promote health and improve cancer outcomes in South Texas and beyond.
Other current projects
Advancing Cancer Research For Latinos and All People (ACRLP) Conference
The ACRLP conference series aims to unite researchers, physicians, patients, and leaders to better understand the cancer burden of the community and solutions to advance health for all people.
Creando Conexiones: Cancer Health Research Agenda
This project is developing a cancer research agenda in South Texas, led by priorities identified by local cancer survivors, caregivers, and community members.
CONNECTOR Program
The IHPR is providing communications support for a community engagement center on heart health, thanks to funding from the American Heart Association and RWJF.
San Antonio Firefighters Cancer Prevention Program
To help reduce cancer risk among firefighters and emergency personnel, San Antonio Fire Department, IHPR at UT Health San Antonio, and others partnered to launch the San Antonio Firefighters Cancer Prevention Program.
Patient Liaison Training
The IHPR helped convene the first in-person meeting of the Latino Cancer Patient Liaison Training Program, a new initiative to teach cancer survivors to become research patient health leaders, who help others navigate the healthcare system and raise the Latino voice in research.
Quitxt: Bilingual Quit-Smoking Text Messaging Service
Quitxt is a free service on your phone with text messages and online support in English or Spanish to help South Texans quit smoking for good.
Breast Cancer: Testing Video-Based Clinical Trial Recruitment
The study hypothesizes that those who receive an interactive, technology-infused communications intervention will increase self-efficacy and informed decision-making to enter breast cancer clinical trials.
Training/Mentoring Opportunities
Through its projects and researchers, the IHPR offers training/mentoring opportunities to high-school and college students through junior faculty in the areas of research methods, health promotion, and more. If you are interested in participating in IHPR’s training program, complete the Prospective Trainee Survey.
Past Projects
Improving Health
IHPR has a historical inventory of health research projects in cancer, chronic disease, healthy lifestyles, obesity, and more. For details, email Cliff Despres at despres@uthscsa.edu.
