Summer Institute on Migration and Health
SUMMER INSTITUTE ON MIGRATION AND HEALTH
PUEBLA, Mexico
JUNE 29 - JULY 3, 2009
The Summer Institute on Migration and Health offers researchers, faculty, graduate students and professionals working with immigrant/migrant communities a great opportunity to come and learn, from a binational perspective, different health issues that affect mobile populations.
The course is taught by highly recognized faculty from United States, Mexico and Latino America, allowing participants to gain insights from a global perspective. The five-day course offers a combination of lectures, workshops, field trips, and cultural events in the following topics: migration and its social, economic and health impact; migration and human rights; laws and migration; chronic diseases; infectious diseases; mental health; agricultural workers health; traditional medicine; and methodologies to study mobile populations.
Organized by the Health Initiative of the Americas, of the University of California at Berkeley, School of Public Health, and the School of Medicine of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, the Summer Institute on Migration and Health takes place in the beautiful city of Puebla, México.
- 2009 Summer Institute Report (English)
- 2009 Summer Institute Report (Spanish)
- 2009 Summer Institute Presentations:
- English
- Actions to Improve Nutrition in Latino Immigrants (pdf)
- Community Based Participatory Action Research (pdf)
- Immigrants and the Current Economic Crisis (pdf)
- Immigration Patterns
- Laws in the USA and Their Impact on Migrant Lives (pdf)
- Making Community Partnership Work (pdf)
- Nutrition Guidance in the USA
- Reducing Diabetes Health Disparities (pdf)
- US Health Care Systems (pdf)
- Spanish
- Estrategias Integral de Atención (pdf)
- Estrategias Para Mejorar la Salud (pdf)
- IME: La Salud, Una Agenda Binacional (pdf)
- Manual Buen Funcionamiento de Asociaciones Comunitarias (pdf)
- Mexicanos en EEUU: Acceso a la Salud (pdf)
- Norma Oficial Mexicana (pdf)
- Programa VSRS (pdf)
- Sistema de Salud Mexicano (pdf)
- Medicina Tradicional y Pueblos Indígenas
- Vete Sano Regresa Sano (pdf)
- Traduciendo Mensajes en Nutrición (pdf)
- Vete Sano, Regresa Sano - Prevención de la Salud (pdf)
- English
Binational Health Week
This year, the Ninth BHW will take place October 3-15, 2009 in 40 states in the U.S. and 3 provinces in Canada, with the participation of the consular networks of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Additionally, during BHW five national campaigns will be implemented to promote awareness among the underserved Latino community on H1N1 Influenza, Prevention of Addictions, Nutrition, Prevention of Strokes, and Living Green.
More information about BHW events