Yesterday was the first day of SALUD 2019!! It was an incredibly experience. The students involved are so intelligent, thoughtful, and enthusiastic about their futures. It was a humbling and inspiring reminder of why I should always follow my passions. I am really proud of what the SALUD team (Dr. Tony Fuller, Dr. Gaby Nagy, Camilo Toro Restrepo, Ariana Paniagua, Ana Gomez) has put together and so excited for what’s to come. A few updates:

– 1 session down, 11 more to go!
– 4 committed and compassionate undergrad and post-bac mentors to guide our students over the next 6 months.
– 6 team members that have been absolutely remarkable with their dedication, hard work, and excitement. We have put a lot of time and energy into this and yesterday was just the start of bringing this vision to fruition.
– 17 Duke or community sponsors and partners whose support is vital to everything we do
– 25 amazing 11th graders that are way cooler than I’ve ever been
– We’ve also recently been awarded a $25,000 Bass Connections grant to continue working on SALUD for 2019-2020!!!

Alex Villeda

Hi!

Thanks for visiting our website. We recently decided to migrate our old website (https://salud-scholars.wixsite.com/salud) to here! Unfortunately, we are unable to transfer our old student blog posts. You can still find them on our old site, but we will be manually updating this page with some select posts over the past few years. We will also be updating this blog with session recaps to let you now more about what we do throughout the program. Stay tuned!

Best,

SALUD Team