2009 Project Results
Binational Team Projects
Utilization of remittances of migrants in California for health care of their dependents in Mexico
Principal Investigators: Miguel Ángel González Block, Instituto Nacional se Salud Pública and Arturo Vargas-Bustamante, UC Los Angeles
Funding Amount: $33,000
A Population-based Comparison of Weight Perceptions among Overweight and Obese Mexican and Mexican-American Men
Principal Investigators: Sylvia Guendelman, UC Berkeley and Martha Kaufer-Horwitz, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán
Funding Amount: $34,944
Cultural Domain of Causes in a Popular Stratum Population from Liberty Sector in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México (English) (Spanish)
Principal Investigators: Javier E. García De Alba-García, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Unidad de Investigación Social, Epidemiológica y de Servicios de Salud – Jalisco, and David Hayes Bautista, UC Los Angeles
Funding Amount: $21,000
Understanding Occupational Safety Awareness, Education, and Practices among Mexican Migrants on U.S. and Mexico Dairy Farms
Principal Investigators: David Thompson and Erin Bell, State University of New York (SUNY), Cobleskill and Sergio Manuel González Rodríguez, Universidad de Guadalajara
Funding Amount: $34,692
Proyecto La Familia: Disclosure of Sexual Identity and HIV Prevention (Report) (Policy Brief)
Principal Investigators: Rita M. Melendez, San Francisco State University, Jorge Zepeda, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and Rafael Samaniego, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Funding Amount: $30,000
Vivencias de migrantes mexicanos (en México y en Estados Unidos) en torno a estados emocionales depresivos y el consumo de alcohol y drogas
Principal Investigators: José Luis López López, University of Texas, El Paso and Griselda Villalobos, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Funding Amount: $37,000
Project Wings: Exploring Migration Effects on Mexican Adolescent-Parent Communication and Connectedness Using Photovoice (English) (Spanish)
Principal Investigators: Rosa Maria Aguilera-Guzmán, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría and Carolyn Marie García, University of Minnesota
Funding Amount: $38,000
Post-Doctorate Fellowship
Graduate Students
Cycle Growing up in a Traditional Family: Latino Adolescents Adapting to Late Immigration and Family Reunification* (Article) (Report)
Naomi A. Shapiro
Institution: UC San Francisco
Funding Amount: $4,999
Care-Seeking of Undocumented, Mexican Immigrant Women with Chronic Illness: A Phenomenological Study
Juliet T. Chandler
Institution: UC San Francisco
Funding Amount:
Transnational Health Service Utilization by Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Tonatiuh González, Cristian Torres, Blanca Pelcastre
Institution: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa,
Funding Amount: