As part of the City of Pasco’s Cinco de Mayo weekend, the National Alliance for Hispanic Health will help roll out a new National Institutes of Health precision medicine program and the power of volunteering for research.
The NIH’s All of Us research program is a historic effort to gather data from one million or more people living in the United States to accelerate research and improve health.
“We are proud to join with Tri-Cities Community Health to help launch All of Us,” said Jane L. Delgado, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Hispanic Health.
The Alliance is hosting the family health and wellness event “to demonstrate the role Hispanic communities must play to usher in the future of health,” Delgado said.
The Pasco Cinco de Mayo Family Health and Wellness Fair will be held Sunday, May 6, 2018, from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Pasco Farmer’s Market at the corner of West Lewis Street and South 3rd Avenue in Pasco, Washington.
The event will include an All of Us town hall broadcast online from 1 pm to 2 pm, a range of free health screenings, farmers market and healthy cooking demonstrations, and community resources from over 30 exhibitors.
“The time is now to transform how we conduct research—with participants as partners—to shed new light on how to stay healthy and manage disease in more personalized ways. This is what we can accomplish through All of Us,” said NIH Director Francis S. Collins.
Participants in All of Us will be able to access their own health information, summary data about the participant community and information about studies and findings that come from the program.
“The future of medicine will be treatment and prevention tailored to the individual. But that future will only be realized if more people in this country are a part of our national science base,” said Jim Davis, the chief executive officer of Tri-Cities Community Health. “It is the diversity of our individual health experiences that will drive the next great breakthroughs in science and health.”
If you can’t make it to Pasco, Washington, tune in at https://Launch.JoinAllofUs.org to watch speakers across the country, including Pasco, Washington, talk about precision medicine and the power of volunteering for research.
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