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Amelie Ramirez Wins AACI Cancer Health Equity Award

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Amelie Ramirez, chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences and leader of Salud America! at UT Health San Antonio, won the 2023 Association of American Cancer Institutes Cancer Health Equity Award. 

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