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Breathe with Pride Houston Tobacco Prevention and Control Initiative works to reduce tobacco use among populations with the highest burden of tobacco-related health disparities by engaging in scholarly research, providing leadership at the city level to support smoke-free policies, and working in partnership to bring community-based interventions. Check us out

OCTOBER EVENTS

  • Healthy Lung Month. Smoking can damage the lungs, which can turn the lung tissue a darker color than healthy lung tissue.  
  • Breathe with Pride Coalition Meeting. Thank you to all that attended our kick-off coalition meeting. If you're interested in participating with our coalition, contact us.
  • The Montrose Center: Beyond the Binary. Biweekly social discussion group. Oct. 28 at 6 p.m.
  • Achieving Health Equity Through Just-Right Digital Health Platforms webinar. Watch now.
  • Social Media Toolkit: How to reach diverse communities
  • Spotlight on Texas Pride Impact Funds: 21 LGBTQ organizations receive grants
The Truth Initiative
LGBT individuals may experience disparities that stem from social stigma and discriminatory treatment. On top of that, there is a different kind of disparity in the LGBT community that is often overlooked: disproportionately high tobacco use rates. Read the report.
Breathe with Pride is a Houston Health Department (HHD) program. The department works in partnership with the community to promote and protect the health and social well-being of Houstonians and the environment in which they live. HHD is a full-service health department that not only performs all core functions of a Public Health Department but also many enhanced functions including initiatives to address health inequities. HHD services benefit all Houston residents but the department also takes additional steps to support those most in need, such as low-income mothers and children, the elderly, and minority populations. Most HHD functions serve the 2.3 million residents of the City of Houston but the scope and impact extend into Harris County’s population of 4.7 million people through the department’s Area Aging on Aging, Bureau of Youth and Adolescent Health, Project Saving Smiles, See to Succeed, immunization strategies, syndromic surveillance and HIV-STD surveillance. HHD’s laboratory also services a 17-county region. Learn more at HoustonHealth.org.






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