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Eduardo Sanchez

Chief Medical Officer for Prevention at the American Heart Association

Dr. Eduardo Sanchez served as the commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services from 2001 to 2004. He chairs the Texas Public Health Coalition.

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How would Texas respond to a 2015 Katrina?

By Herminia Palacio and Eduardo Sanchez, Sept. 3, 2015

Given decreases in funding and staffing at state and local health departments in the years since Hurricane Katrina, Texas may not be as prepared to care for storm evacuees in the future.

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Don't turn back the clock on tobacco prevention

By David Lakey and Eduardo Sanchez, May 4, 2015

Tobacco prevention is good health policy and good fiscal policy. So it's troubling that the Texas Senate’s budget proposal would reduce tobacco prevention funding by over 30 percent.