TMA Public Health Opportunities
AMA Healthier Life Steps
The Texas Medical Association brings you the American Medical Association (AMA) Healthier Life Steps program to help you improve the lifestyles and overall health of your patients. The comprehensive toolkit offers physicians and their patients practical resources for making positive, coordinated lifestyle changes. It focuses on healthy eating, increasing physical activity, quitting smoking, and reducing risky drinking.
Hard Hats for Little Heads
Hard Hats for Little Heads is a matching bicycle helmet donation program for Texas physicians, county medical societies, TMA Alliances, medical student section chapters, and specialty societies to help prevent head injuries in their communities.
Be Wise — Immunize
This joint initiative of TMA and the TMA Alliance, funded through a grant from the TMA Foundation, aims to substantially increase statewide immunization rates.
Excellence in Science Teaching Awards
The TMA Excellence in Science Teaching Awards provide cash prizes to recognize outstanding elementary, middle, and high school science teachers.
Project WATCH
Project WATCH, TMA's cardiovascular disease and stroke prevention education program, aims to knock the No. 1 and No. 3 killers of Texans off the charts.
Live and Then Give
More than 80,000 people in the United States are waiting for life-saving organ transplants. Many of those people live in Texas. Thousands of people die needlessly each year due to lack of donors. Transplantation is often the only hope for these people suffering from organ failure.