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Basic information about the H1N1 Flu vaccine. Listen to audio
Picture this: A long, low building on the corner of Lake Street and Pillsbury in Minneapolis filled with Somali immigrants chatting, shopping, drinking spicy tea.... read more
La Colectiva Mujeres of La Raza Centro Legal launches a new website for their social media campaign based in San Francisco. La Colectiva is one... Visit website
Somali producer Mukhtar Gaaddasaar is back! This time, he takes the audience on a journey to learn about sexually transmitted diseases. He explores social attitudes... View video
On October 10, 2009 Sagal Radio Service, an native language broadcast for New Americans, and Oakhurst Medical Center, a local health clinic that provides affordable,... read more
The Philadelphia New Routes project, Our Stories, Our Health has just released three short videos aimed at improving the health of Southeast Asian immigrants. "Hypertension",... read more
This is an interview with several experts led by Dr. Carlos del Rio, a public health professor at the Emory School of public health and... Listen to audio
ECHO Minnesota, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has created video, audio, print and other resources on H1N1 Novel Influenza in multiple... Visit website
With the Latino population set to triple by 2050, the already alarming number of cancer diagnoses in the Latino community could rise just as sharply,... Visit website
Very practical information for Chinese seniors who speak Chinese and need information about their medications.
Executive Producers Michael Ong, Alexander Li and Eric Olander; Directed and... View video
SOY (I am) is a ground breaking campaign to address the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS in the Latino community. A diverse group of Latinos, ranging in... View video
“Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness,” a program that will be broadcast in early October, zeros in on wrenching situations playing out every day... read more
Three months ago, more than 300 families had their names on a waiting list to receive health care services at La Clinica de La Raza's... read more
The American Medical Association has encouraged physicians to examine their own practices to ensure equality in medical care. This Website contains information about AMA programs... Visit website
The health care town hall circus this August had a recurrent sideshow: the illegal immigration paper tiger. The well-scripted disruption tactics by antireform activists played... read more
EthnoMed has a collection of links to information in many languages about Swine Flu. Some are videos, some PDFs, and some Web pages. Visit website
To the credit of opponents of health-care reform, the lies and exaggerations they're spreading are not made up out of whole cloth—which makes the misinformation... read more
More than 1 million people in the United States are diagnosed with cancer each year according to the American Cancer Society. Approximately one out of... read more
"Regardless of age, legal status or insurance coverage, immigrants, on average, receive about half the health care services provided to native-born Americans, according to findings... read more
Perched at the edge of an exam table, Delmira Maravilla is anxious for a check-up—and for a timeline on the president's promise of health care... read more
An unedited clip from a workshop for Latino teens and their families on sexual health. With plenty of good humor and kindness workshop leaders show... View video
Here is an excerpt from blog by Abdulkadir Khalif, contributing editor for Age of Autism, about the Somali delegation to the Autism One 2009 conference... read more
A new report released today by the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF), Recording Voices: Stories of Asian Pacific American Youth as Language... read more
Health reporting fellowships are available to professional journalists in print, broadcast and new media. Dennis Hunt grants (up to $10,000) encourage collaborative projects between mainstream... Visit website
The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation released the report, “Putting Women’s Health Care Disparities on the Map: Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the State Level,”... Visit website
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This report (PDF 3.8MB) offers guidance for community organizations and those who fund social change in how best to harness the power of local media-making for community health improvement. Spanish-language version is now available. Una versión en español de este informe esta en la web.
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