Healthy Texas Initiative launches

Posted by News Saturday, July 5th, 2014

Thebatt: June 24, 2014

The launch of the Healthy Texas Initiative as part of the Texas A&M Institute for Public Health Improvement has inspired an effort to reduce preventable disease with the program’s pilot “Healthy South Texas 2025.”

The program, whose partners include the A&M Health Science Center, the A&M AgriLife Extension Service and the A&M College of Architecture, aims to reduce preventable diseases and their consequences in South Texas by 25 percent by 2025.

The focus was on South Texas from the start for several reasons, but three key factors combined to make it the most viable for the pilot program, said Dr. Brett P. Giroir, CEO of Texas A&M Health Science Center.   Read More

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