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Historic Minority Health Summit Launches Healthy Lifestyles, Healthy Communities Initiative

Four key congressional leaders,along with top health care and business officials have created an agendathat will focus on community health education and obesity prevention forSouthern California minority communities. This plan was created frommeetings at a historic health summit of top thought-leaders, entitledEmpowering Local Community, Informing National Policy Makers: A New Agendato Address Health Disparities Conference in Los Angeles on Friday, July7th. [click link for full article]

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