News
December 2025
The newsletter highlights new cancer prevention and care resources, including a free bilingual oncology patient navigation training program from the GW Cancer Center and research on tobacco use, lung cancer screening, and risk-based breast cancer screening. It also features tools and updates such as an HPV-focused provider toolkit, findings from the 2025 Monitoring the Future study on youth substance use, and a webinar examining the health risks and gender inequalities related to tobacco use among women in Latin America and the Caribbean.
September 2025
The newsletter highlights new cancer and tobacco control resources, including a video series from the National Lung Cancer Roundtable explaining lung cancer staging and research on how excluding Hispanic ethnicity from racial categories affects national estimates of youth tobacco use. It also features funding opportunities for chronic disease research using the NIH All of Us Research Program dataset, new data on youth nicotine pouch use, a digital social marketing guide for quitline campaigns, a text-messaging cessation study for Hispanic/Latino adults, and a Surgeon General resource guide addressing youth vaping.
June 2025
The newsletter highlights new cancer and tobacco control research and resources, including the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, which shows continued declines in cancer death rates but rising incidence of obesity-related cancers. It also features studies on tobacco use among Hispanic youth, community health worker programs for cancer screening, a peer clinical trials support program for Hispanic/Latino patients, a text-messaging cessation study, national survey results on barriers to cancer screening, and information about the 2025 National Conference on Tobacco or Health.
March 2025
The newsletter highlights tobacco control and cancer research updates, including the launch of the CDC’s 2025 Tips From Former Smokers® campaign and new studies from the Healthy Americas Research Consortium using NIH’s All of Us dataset to examine chronic disease and health disparities. It also features new cancer data from the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2025, an updated oncology patient navigator training program, and research showing that integrating smoking cessation counseling with lung cancer screening can significantly increase quit rates.
December 2024
The newsletter highlights new public health resources addressing tobacco-related health disparities, including the Surgeon General’s report on eliminating tobacco-related disease and bilingual infographics summarizing adolescent health data from the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. It also shares prevention initiatives and tools such as resources to help people quit smoking in the new year, the LIVERWISE project to raise awareness about liver disease, a publication on food justice policy strategies, and an updated cervical cancer awareness toolkit with Spanish-language materials.
September 2024
The newsletter highlights new cancer prevention and health equity resources for Hispanic communities, including bilingual infographics for National Hispanic Family Cancer Awareness Week, Spanish-language materials from the Empower Vape-Free Youth campaign, and updated BRFSS data on health behaviors and social determinants of health. It also shares educational opportunities and research updates such as Spanish webinars on balancing work and cancer, a PAHO report on disease burden in the Americas, and bilingual National Cancer Institute videos offering nutrition and food safety tips for people undergoing cancer treatment.
June 2024
The newsletter highlights new resources focused on cancer prevention and survivorship in Hispanic communities, including a bilingual report on the connection between food systems and cancer survivorship and a guide for health centers to address tobacco use among agricultural workers. It also shares updates on cancer data and prevention efforts, such as a bilingual vaping toolkit for youth education, a patient-partnered cancer research program called “Count Me In,” and a policy brief on improving language access in federally supported programs.
March 2024
The newsletter highlights new resources and initiatives from the Nuestras Voces Adelante Network Program, including a bilingual cancer data brief with an infographic on cancer incidence and mortality by race/ethnicity and gender, and a new policy report addressing flavored tobacco use and nicotine addiction among Hispanic youth. It also promotes upcoming activities and resources—such a webinar on the “Food is Medicine” initiative, the CDC’s 2024 Tips From Former Smokers® campaign, a redesigned Spanish-language website, and updated CDC menthol cigarette fact sheets for all states.
December 5, 2023
It’s Time to End the Menthol Poisoning of Communities. National Alliance for Hispanic Health Calls Upon White House to Finalize Without Further Delay Proposed Rules to Prohibit Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars. Menthol Changes Brain Structure and Increases Dependence on Tobacco. [Letter]
June 12, 2023
National Alliance for Hispanic Health Calls on the House Appropriations Committee to Stand Up to Big Tobacco
August 1, 2022
Alliance Calls Upon the FDA to Swiftly Finalize Proposed Rules to Prohibit Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars
June 23, 2022
Statement of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health on FDA Action Denying Marketing Applications for JUUL E-Cigarettes
April 28, 2022
National Alliance for Hispanic Health Applauds FDA’s Proposed Regulations to Ban Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars
March 7, 2022
National Alliance for Hispanic Health Calls on OMB to Swiftly Approve FDA’s Proposed Regulations to Ban Menthol Cigarettes and Flavored Cigars
December 28, 2020
Alliance Praises Enactment of the Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act (Copy of Act).
January 31, 2020
New Report from CDC Shows Hispanics Less Likely to Receive Advice from
Health Providers to Quit Smoking and Use Proven Smoking Cessation Treatments
April 30, 2019
Statement of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health on the Introduction of the Preventing Online Sales of E-Cigarettes to Children Act