Announcements

Upcoming Front Porch Club Meeting

Mark your calendars! The next Front Porch Club Meeting is February 21st at 4:30 pm. Join us in person or connect by Zoom. We hope to see you there!

Become a Member of the ReACH Center

Do you have an interest in the health of San Antonio and the South Texas region? Become a member of the ReACH Cenrer! Membership is free provides the opportunity to get involved with shaping the future of population health, clinical and translational research in South Texas! For more information and to sign up click here!

ReACH Scholar Bertha "Penny" Flores, PhD, APRN, WHNP-BC Selected for the National Hispanic Health Foundation (NHHF) PCORI Hispanic Patient-Centered Health Research Mentorship Program

ReACH Scholar Bertha "Penny" Flores, PhD, APRN, WHNP-BC was recently selected for the the National Hispanic Health Foundation (NHHF) PCORI Hispanic Patient-Centered Health Research Mentorship Program. This unique mentorship and training program provides individualized mentoring by Hispanic senior faculty researchers, networking with PCOR experts and other researchers in Hispanic health equity, skills building for career development, a two day in-person PCOR training with a special session to present your research. Congratulations Dr. Flores!

ReACH/IIMS 2018 Population Health Pilot Grant Program Awardee Announcement

Submitted by lills on October 27, 2017 - 17:23

The Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH), in conjunction with the Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science (IIMS [UT Health San Antonio CTSA]) is pleased to annouce the 2018 ReACH/IIMS 2018 Population Health Pilot Grant Program awardees. The ReACH/IIMS Population Health Pilot Grant Program provides research grant funding up to $23,000 to junior researchers, in conjunction with a senior faculty mentor and a community partner, to address the areas identified in the UT Health San Antonio Population Health Strategic Plan developed as a part of the University of Texas Collaborative on Populaiton Health Innovation and Improvement (CoPHII) . The goal of this program is to build population health research capacity at the faculty and community level.

2018 ReACH/IIMS 2018 Population Health Pilot Grant Program Awardees

Principal Investigator	Project Title
Rahma Mungia, BDS, MSc, DDPHRCS - UT Health San Antonio Dept. of Periodontics	Increasing E-Cigarette Awareness and Counseling among South Texas Dentists, Patients and Communities
Belinda Hernandez, PhD - UTHealth Houston School of Public Health	The Impact of Caregiving on the Children of Military Caregivers: An Exploratory Study