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Border Bi-National Health Week

By |2017-02-10T09:50:06-07:00October 7th, 2013|Prevention|

I’ve was in DC much of last week working alongside many of the health officers from the 10 US Mexico border states.  We had meetings with the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission as well as events associated with Border Binational Health Week.  Border Bi-national Health Week is just one of the initiatives of the Commission- whose goal is [...]

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Border Bi-national Public Health

By |2017-02-10T09:50:22-07:00June 18th, 2013|Affordable Care Act, General|

You can think of the border public health advocacy network as a bi-national matrix of public health partners that collaborate to improve conditions along the US-Mexico border.  The network includes national organizations like the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission along with state based partnerships like the Arizona-Mexico Commission and the annual Border Governor’s Conference.    As part of my job [...]

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Building a Healthier Border

By |2017-02-10T09:51:27-07:00October 28th, 2011|General|

You can think of the border public health advocacy network as a binational matrix of public health partners that collaborate to improve conditions along the US-Mexico border.  The network includes national organizations like the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission along with state based partnerships like the Arizona-Mexico Commission and the annual U.S.-Mexico Border Governor’s Conference.  Community based binational partnerships [...]

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Border Health Partnerships

By |2017-02-10T09:51:41-07:00July 12th, 2011|General, Licensing, Preparedness, Prevention|

A few weeks ago I blogged about the June plenary session of the Arizona Mexico Commission called Arizona & Sonora: Gateway for Innovation.  The conference provided an opportunity to move forward a bi-national agenda supported by Arizona and Sonora.  The health committee discussed regional approaches to valley fever surveillance, burn patient infrastructure, substance abuse, TB, border [...]

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