Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research
Minority Health Month
National Minority Health Month
Every April, National Minority Health Month serves as a time to raise awareness of health disparities affecting racial and ethnic minority groups and to encourage actions to improve the health of minority communities.
At the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, a large part of our mission is reducing cancer and chronic disease-related disparities among racial and ethnic minority groups. To overcome these disparities, researchers and health providers must be able to address the unique circumstances that contribute to them. That’s why we have a number of culturally-tailored projects focusing on Latinos and Latinas, African Americans, and American Indian/Alaska Native communities.
Throughout the month, we will be sharing how our research teams are working to address these health inequities on this page. We hope you will join us in building awareness about the disproportionate burden of death and disease on minority communities.
The Healthy Liver/Hígado Sano Study
Our Healthy Liver/Hígado Sano Study is pilot testing a behavioral lifestyle intervention for Hispanic adults with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The project team has partnered with Legacy Community Health in Houston to deliver a culturally tailored intervention to a group of patients with NAFLD.
“We want to see if we can move the needle,” said Natalia I. Heredia, PhD, MPH, Principal Investigator for the project. “We’re not expecting participants to start running a marathon tomorrow. The idea is to make slow improvements over time, changes that they can sustain to see long-term results.”