2020 Awarded Projects

Binational Team Projects

Impact of COVID-19 on tuberculosis services in migrant population from Baja California, México

Principal Investigators: Raquel Muñiz-Salazar, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, & Richard Garfein, University of California San Diego (Report) (Infographic: EnglishEspañol)

Funding Amount: $10,000

A Comparative Study of Translatinx Migrant Health in Three Contexts

Principal Investigators: Carlos Alberto Leal Reyes, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, & Justin Perez, University of California, Santa Cruz

Funding Amount: $10,000

Social, economic, and health consequences of COVID-19 on farmworkers in Mexico and USA

Principal Investigators: María Elena Rivera Heredia, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo México, Stephen A. McCurdy & Kimberly Prado, University of California Davis (Abstract)

Prado, K. Y., et al. ““It’s wrong because it could be my sister, wife, or mother”: Workplace sexual harassment among men and women farmworkers in USA and Mexico.” Journal of agromedicine 26.2 (2021): 220-230

Prado, Kimberly Y., Maria-Elena Rivera-Heredia, and Stephen A. McCurdy. “Exposure to workplace sexual harassment among women and men farmworkers in USA and Mexico.” Journal of agricultural safety and health (2021): 0

Funding Amount: $10,000

Trauma and Resilience among Migrant Children Enroute to the United States (Report: EnglishEspañol) (Infografía) (Video)

Principal Investigators: Maria del Carmen Montenegro, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, & Mark Lusk, University of Texas at El Paso

Funding Amount: $10,000

Uso del método Photovoice para visibilizar la salud mental en migrantes transgénero (Report) (Video)

Principal Investigators: Eva M. Moya, University of Texas at El Paso, & Marisela Gutiérrez Vega, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

Funding Amount: $10,000

Family cohesion in coping with COVID-19 stressors: a comparative study of US & Mexican Families

Principal Investigators: Karl Krupp, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, & Rogelio Zapata Garibay, Comisión de Salud Fronteriza México-Estados Unidos

Funding Amount: $10,000

Salud mental de población de origen mexicano en Estados Unidos y México en el contexto del COVID-19 (Report)(Policy Recommendation)

Principal Investigators: Aurelia Lorena Murga, The University of Texas at El Paso, & Maritza Caicedo, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la UNAM

Funding Amount: $10,000


Graduate Student Projects

The Effects of Legal Status on Older Mexican Immigrants in the U.S. and Mexico during COVID-19 (Report)

Principal Investigators: Isabel García Valdivia, University of California, Berkeley

Funding Amount: $2,500