La Communidad
FROM EDUCATION TO HEALTH
IMPROVING HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATES
NASA is working with Univision Communications Inc. to develop a partnership in support of the Spanish-language media outlet’s ini- tiative to improve
high school graduation rates, prepare Hispanic students for college, and encourage them to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, disci- plines.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden attended Univision’s announcement of a three-year national Hispanic education initiative titled Es El Momento (The Moment is Now) at the
National Press Club in Washington D.C.
“Education is a vital component of NASA’s mission,” Bolden said. “We look forward to developing a partnership with Univi- sion that would allow us to combine NASA’s unique STEM education content with Univision’s communications platforms —television, radio, and online and interactive media.”
Also present at the event were Univision President and CEO Joe Uva, Univision Networks President Cesar Conde, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and philanthropist Melinda Gates. Organizations partnering on this initiative include the U.S. Department of Education and the Gates Foundation.
Collaboration with Univision will complement NASA’s current education efforts to engage underrepresented and under- served students in the critical STEM fields.
FIGHTING CANCER IN THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY
A decade ago, Redes En Acción launched its operations with a national center and six strategically located regional offices across the country. The mission: to develop a nationwide network – a veritable army – of collabo- rators to fight cancer in Latinos on three fronts – research, training and public awareness.
Now the National Cancer Institute-fund- ed Redes program is celebrating its 10th anniversary and some remarkable strides in this battle.
Today the Redes En Acción network numbers more than 1,800 research- ers, medical professionals, educators, community organization administrators, government agency leaders, students and other volunteers.
“We’ve come a long way,” said Ame- lie G. Ramirez, Ph.D., Redes Principal Investigator. “We started this initiative in 2000 with a handful of researchers who had worked together on Latino cancer issues for a number of years.
“From that core, we’ve expanded the number of collaborators tremendously and made very significant progress in our efforts to reduce and eliminate cancer health disparities among the
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Latino population – both within our individual communities and across the country.”
Examples of the diverse national organizations and agencies Redes En Acción has formed col- laborative partnerships with include the Cancer Information Service (CIS) of NCI, Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Hu- man Genome Research
Institute, NCI Specialized Programs of Research Excellence, NCI Cancer Genet- ics Networks, and Women’s Health Initiative. Redes En Acción has also col- laborated with NCI-designated cancer centers, academic institutions and com- munity organizations within each of the program’s regional sites.
Initially, the program received support under the NCI’s Special Populations Networks (SPN) initiative. In 2005, the NCI funded Redes En Acción as part of its Community Networks Program
(CNP) initiative to address cancer disparities among minority and under- served populations.
Research
Essential to success in this effort has been the Redes program’s achievements in initiating and promoting research re- lated to cancer in Latinos. Over the past 10 years, the NCI – through Redes En Acción – funded 18 studies in the pilot research program, a key component of the initiative’s research activities.
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