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Binational Team Projects

A Health Promotion Model for Migrant Agricultural Workers from Southern Mexico (Report) (Policy Brief)
Principal Investigators: Maria Ortega, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo and Jill de Zapien, University of Arizona
Funding Amount: $40,762

The Unintended Consequences of Deporting Parents (Report) (Policy Brief)
Principal Investigators: Lina Mendez, UC Davis and Guillermina Natera Rey, Insituto Nacional de Psiquaitría Ramon de La Fuente Muniz
Funding Amount: $36,000

A Binational Study on Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance among Overweight and Obese Women (Policy Brief)
Principal Investigators: Sylvia Guendelman, UC Berkeley and Martha Kaufer-Horwitz, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición
Funding Amount: $42,000

Mental Health Sequelae and the Role of Culture in Mexican Migrants (Report: English Spanish)
Principal Investigators: Griselda Villalobos, University of Texas at El Paso and Sergio Guadalupe Sánchez Díaz, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social (CIESAS)
Funding Amount: $38,350

Community Health, Transnational Mobility, and Global Climate Change: The Oaxaca-California Nexus
Principal Investigators: David Kyle, UC Davis and Carlos Gay, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Funding Amount: $37,600

Impacto de la migración en la salud mental y el funcionamiento familiar en hombres mexicanos (Report)
Principal Investigators: Yvette Flores, UC Davis and Ericka Cervantes Pacheco, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
Funding Amount: $40,000

Twin Gods: A Mixed-Method Investigation of Diet Change in Latino Immigrants (Policy Brief)
Principal Investigators: David Lopez-Carr, UC Santa Barbara and Silvia Mejía Arango, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Funding Amount: $39,871

Bridging Worlds (Report) (Policy Brief)
Principal Investigators: Judith Munter, University of Texas at El Paso, and Miguel Güémez Pineda, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
Funding Amount: $42,048

Graduate Students

Mental Health among Hispanic-Latino Families in North County, California
Matthew Cappiello (Dissertation)
Institution: UC San Diego School of Medicine
Funding Amount: $2,500

Psychosocial Stressors and Transnational Migrants Mental Health: An Exploratory Binational Study
Veronica Montes
Institution: UC Santa Barbara
Funding Amount: $4,980

El proceso de salud/ enfermedad/ atenció en salud mental de mujeres de origen poblano en Nueva York (Dissertation)
Nadia Santillanes
Institution: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)
Funding Amount: $5,000

Role of Time Preferences in Health Seeking Behaviors among Mexicans
Sandhya V. Shimoga (Dissertation)
Institution: UC Los Angeles
Funding Amount: $5,000