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Investing in Disease Prevention and Management

June 13, 2024

In 2023, the Health Foundation invested $3.02 million to support 42 grants under the Disease Prevention & Management priority area to advance efforts to prevent and manage diabetes and mental illness across the region.

2023 grantees included:

• Texas Tech Hunt School of Dental Medicine, providing patients who visit the Texas Tech Dental Oral Health Clinic with a routine dental exam and the opportunity to test their A1C;
• The University of Texas at El Paso with diabetes awareness training program for seniors Public Health students;
• El Paso Center for Diabetes creating new signs and symptoms diabetes campaign “Diabetes, Now What?”;
• Project Vida to secure accreditation to provide specialized training in community psychiatry, cultural competency and social determinants of health for medical students; and
• Otero County, Mobile Crisis Response Team to become the essential component of the Alamogordo Police Department.

Click here to learn more about what the Health Foundation and our partners are doing to promote health and prevent disease by reviewing our 2023 annual report.