7th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health
Los Angeles, California, USA June 25 - 29, 2012 7th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health Agenda Los Angeles, California, USA
MONDAY JUNE 25 Location: The California Endowment 1000 N. Alameda St., Los Angeles, CA, 90012
Plenary sessions (Redwood Room) 8:00 - 8:45 Registration 8:45 - 9:00 Welcoming Remarks; Xochitl Castañeda, Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA), UC Berkeley & Center of Expertise on Migration and Health, UC Global Health Institute (COEMH/UCGHI) 9:00 - 9:20 Vision of the University of California in Migration & Global Health Issues; Marc Schenker, UC Davis & COEMH/UCGHI 9:20 - 10:20 Historic and Current Trends for Global Migration; Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 10:20 -10:35 Break 10:35 -11:30 Social Determinants of Migrant Health; Michael Rodriguez, UC Los Angeles & COEMH/ UCGHI 11:30 - 12:30 The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS): a Tool for Monitoring Migrant Health; David Grant and Arturo Vargas Bustamante; UCLA Center for Health Policy Research 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 16:30 Simultaneous Workshops Workshop 1 Tahoe Room : Research Methodologies for Migrant Populations: Household Surveys Among Migrant Populations, Enrico Marcelli, San Diego State University; Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, CDC Workshop 2 Redwood Room : From Publication to 7th Summer Institute on Public Action, Steve Wallace and Fernando Torres-Gil, Migration and Global Health UCLA; Caroline Sanders, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network Los Angeles, California, USA Workshop 3 Sierra Room : COEMH: UC Grad Students/Postdocs Research Presentations. Co-chairs and discussants: Robin DeLugan, UC Merced & Maria Luisa Zuñiga, UC San Diego 17:30 - 19:30 Welcoming reception (El Paseo Inn Restaurant) 11 Olvera St, LA, CA, 90012
TUESDAY JUNE 26 Location: The California Endowment
Plenary sessions (Redwood Room) 8:00 – 9:00 Good Practices to Address Migration and Global Health Issues: an Operational Frame- work, the Sri Lankan Model; Kolitha Wickramage, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Colombo, Sri Lanka 9:00 – 10:00 Migration and Health: The Way Forward; Daniel Lopez-Acuña, World Health Organization (WHO) Videoconference from Geneva, Switzerland 10:00 – 10:15 Break 10:15 - 11:15 Mexico’s Strategy to Health Services for Migrant Populations; Hilda Davila, Secretariat of Health of Mexico (SSA); Javier Diaz de León, Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME) 11:15 - 12:15 CDC Strategies and Actions on Migration and Global Health; Steve Waterman, CDC 12:15 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 16:30 Simultaneous Workshops Workshop 1 Redwood Room : Research Methodologies for Migrant Populations- Qualitative and Ethnographic approaches; Bonnie Bade, Cal State University San Marcos Workshop 2 Tahoe Room : Health Promotion Strategies for Latino Migrants: Ignacio Romero and Keirsten Mihos; Network for a Healthy California Workshop 3 Sierra Room : COEMH: UC Grad Students/Postdocs Research Presentations. Co-chairs & discussants: Wayne Cornelius, UC San Diego & Shannon Gleeson, UC Santa Cruz
WEDNESDAY JUNE 27 Location: The California Endowment Plenary session (Redwood Room) 8:00 - 9:00 Migration and Mental Health: “The Ulysses Syndrome”; Joseba Achotegui, University of Barcelona, Spain 9:00 - 10:00 Women and Migration, Claire Brindis, UCSF; 10:00 - 10:15 Break 10:15 - 11:10 Global Migration and Health Transitions: What does it mean for Latin American Internal and International Migration? David Lopez Carr, UC Santa Barbara 11:10 - 12:00 Immigrants and Occupational Health; Shannon Gleeson, UC Santa Cruz 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch and Poster Session 13:30 - 16:30 Simultaneous Workshops Workshop 1 Tahoe Room : Using CHIS to Study Migrant Populations; David Grant, Ashley Parks, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research Workshop 2 Redwood Room : The Atenea Network: Psychosocial Support Network for Migrants. Joseba Achotegui, University of Barcelona, Spain; Dori Espeso, SAPPIR, Spain; José López Rodas, University of Lima, Perú. Workshop 3 Sierra Room : COEMH: UC Grad Students/Postdocs Research Presentations. Co-chairs and discussants: Wayne Cornelius, UCSD Frank Bean, UC Irvine, and Claire Brindis, UC San Francisco THURSDAY JUNE 28 Location: University of California Los Angeles 640 Charles E Young Dr S, LA, CA 90095
Plenary session (Location: School of Public Health, room 43-105) 8:30 – 8:45 Welcoming to UCLA; Eugene Washington, Vice Chancellor Health Science UCLA 8:45 – 9:35 Research Challenges in Migrant Health; Malaquias Lopez Cervantes, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) 9:35 – 10:30 Social Hierarchies and Health Disparities in the Context of US-Mexico Migration Seth Holmes, UC Berkeley 10:30 – 10:45 Break 10:45 – 11:00 Mobility, Global Health, and Human Rights: Why Slaves are Nowhere and Everywhere; David Kyle, UC Davis 11:00 – 12:00 Documentary “Dying to Leave” 12:00 – 12:30 Discussion 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break (Location: Neuroscience Research Building- auditorium) Plenary session (Location: Neuroscience Research Building- auditorium) 13:30 - 14:20 Mobility & HIV in Mexico and Central America; Shira Goldenberg, UC San Diego 14:20 - 15:15 Understanding the Latino Health Paradox: Insights from Relationships between Immigrant Naturalization and Health; Frank D. Bean, UC Irvine 15:15 - 15:30 Break 15:30 - 16:15 Migration and Global Health: Summary Remarks; Xochitl Castañeda, UC Berkeley 16:15 - 16:45 Closing ceremony, presentation of certificates, group picture
FRIDAY JUNE 29
8:30 – 12:30 Site visit to: Ventanilla de Salud- Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles (2401 W. 6th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90057) and ALTAMED Commerce Medical Clinic (5427 Whittier Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90022) Transportation will be provided 12:30 END OF EVENT Our Distinguished Speakers
Our distinguished speakerss
oseba Achotegui, Ph.D Professor of the University of Barcelona, Director of JSAPPIR (Psychopathological and Psychosocial Sup- port Service for Immigrants and Refugees) at the Hospital of Saint Peter Claver in Barcelona. Since 1997, he has been the Director of the Postgraduate Course “Mental health and psychological support for immigrants, refugees and minority group members” at the University de Bar- celona. He was awarded the Solidarity Award by the Catalan Parliament in 1997 for his work with immigrants groups. He is the Coordinator of the inter- national task force on “The Ulysses Syndrome” sponsored by the European Parliament Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights and member of the Executive Committee of the World Psychiatric Association TPS Section. [email protected] onnie Bade Medical Anthropologist, founder and chair of the Anthropology Department at Cal State University BSan Marcos. Dr. Bade earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. Her dissertation is entitled Sweatbaths, Sacrifice, and Surgery: The Practice of Transnational Health Care by Mixtec Families in Califor- nia. Her work focuses on farm-worker health, health care, California agriculture and farm labor, transnational migra- tion, and ethnomedicine and ethnobotany among indigenous groups in Southern California. Dr. Bade has worked with Mixteco communities in the San Diego/Tijuana border region, the San Joaquin Valley, the Salinas Val- ley, Oregon, and Oaxaca. Her ongoing research in California, Mexico and at the border region serves to examine health care patterns; specifically access and utilization problems and the alternatives generated by Mexi- can indigenous and farm-worker families who are confronted with health problems. Dr. Bade has spent the last 20 years documenting illness occur- rence, disease etiologies, medicinal concepts and practices, diagnostic and treatment practices, and traditional medicinal plant use with Mexican indig- enous medical practitioners from Oaxaca. She works closely with organized farm-worker and indigenous migrant associations in on-going collaborative research that focuses on health, health care and community well-being. [email protected] rank D. Bean Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Immigration, Population Fand Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author or editor of more than 170 scholarly articles and chapters and 18 books. His research focuses on international migration (including health incorporation), unauthorized migration, U.S. immigration policy, and the demography of the U.S. Hispanic population. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other Visiting Scholar awards (at the Russell Sage Foundation; the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC; the American Academy in Berlin; the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University; and the Center for U.S./Mexico Studies at the University of California at San Diego). In 2011, he received the Distinguished Lifetime Scholarly Career Award in International Migration at the American Socio- logical Association annual meetings and the Otis Dudley Duncan (Best Book) Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Social Demography from the ASA's Population Section for his most recent book (with Jennifer Lee), The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in 21st Century America. [email protected] laire Brindis PhD Director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Professor of Pediatrics and CHealth Policy in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health Sciences at UCSF and Director of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and Executive Director of the National Adolescent Health Information and Innovation Center. Her research focuses on women’s, adolescent, and child health policy, evaluations of adolescent pregnancy prevention, and reproductive health services for women and men, and other related initiatives. With the CDC and the Federal Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, she co-authored “A Guidebook for States and Communities “Im- proving Adolescent Health” along with the UCSF Center on Social Dispari- ties in Health and the Bixby Center, co-author a report “Creating a Health Research and Policy Agenda for Im/migration Between Mexico and Califor- nia” and completed research and developed a film aimed at policy makers and communities, “A Question of Hope: Reducing Latina Teen Childbearing in California.” Dr. Brindis serves on many panels, including the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures and the Committee on Preventive Services for Women. A recipi- ent of numerous awards, including the Federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau Director's Award, the UCSF’s Chancellor’s Award for the Advance- ment of Women, election to the IOM in 2010, and UCLA’s 2012 Alumni Hall of Fame Award. [email protected] óchitl Castañeda Director of Health Initiative of the Americas, at the School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley,X since 2001. A medical anthropologist by train- ing, Xóchitl was educated in Guatemala and Mexico. She did a post-doctoral fellowship in reproductive health at the University of California, San Francisco. She also received training in social science and medicine at Harvard Universi- ty and at Amsterdam University. For over seven years, she was a Professor of Public Health Sciences and a P.I. Researcher at Mexico's National Institute of Public Health, where she directed the Department of Reproductive Health. In 1999, she received the National Research Award on Social Science and Medicine. Xóchitl has published over 80 manuscripts and has served as a consultant for more than 20 national and international institutions. Her leadership has been decisive in the creation of binational programs to improve the quality of life of Latino immigrants in the U.S. Under her direction HIA has coordinated for 12 consecutive years the Binational Health Week, one of the largest mobilization efforts in the Americas to improve the well-being of Latin American immigrants. Through these strate- gies, hundreds of thousands of Latinos have received medical attention and are referred to public and private agencies to obtain services. She has been twice elected to be an advisor to the Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME), for which she has served as the National Coordinator of the Health Commission in the U.S. [email protected] ayne A. Cornelius Co-Director of the UC Center of Expertise on Mi- Wgration and Health, coordinator of undergraduate programming for the 10-campus UC Global Health Institute, and a Core Faculty Member in the Division of Global Public Health, School of Medicine, UCSD. He is Director Emeritus of the UCSD Center for Comparative Immigration Stud- ies of UCSD Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. He serves as faculty director of the Mexican Migration Field Research and Training Program at UCSD, which conducts annual field studies of migration and health issues in Mexican migrant-sending and U.S. receiving communities. A specialist on Mexican migration to the United States, comparative immigra- tion policy (U.S., Spain, and Japan), international migration and health, and the Mexican political system, he is the author, co-author, or editor of 285 publications dealing with these subjects. Recent journal articles deal with the role of U.S. deportation policies in the transmission of HIV/AIDs. He recently co-authored a major report on U.S. immigration enforcement policies for the National Academy of Sciences, published in December 2011.
[email protected] ilda Dávila Director General of International Relations, Sec- Hretariat of Health, Mexico. Since October 2011, Hilda Dávila is the Director General of International Re- lations at the Secretariat of Health of Mexico. Formerly she was the Deputy Director for Administration and Information of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad. She holds a B.A. in International Relations at El Colegio de Mexico. She has been a public servant for the Govern- ment of Mexico at different posts such as the Office of the President, the Secretariat of Public Education and the Secretariat of Health during the last 20 years. In 1993 and 1994, she lived in Chicago working at the Consul- ate General of Mexico as Press Secretary. There she acquired firsthand experience of how Mexican migrants live in the United States which helped her recognize the importance of culturally competent health access. Since 2009 she has been a Board Member of NCFH (National Center for Farm- worker Health). She became Chief of Staff of the Secretary of Public Education from 1995 to 2000, and she was involved in binational projects on migrant education. From 2001 to 2006 she served at the Secretariat of Health, holding the post of Deputy Director for Migrant Health, where the Binational Health Weeks and the Ventanillas de Salud were launched and became Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Health, Julio Frenk. [email protected] obin DeLugan Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Merced. With subfield expertise in socio-cultural Ranthropology, her research interests include collective identity, state practices of nation building, migration and trans-nationalism, indigeneity, and social memory. She is the author of Reimagining National Belonging: Postwar El Salvador in a Global Context (forthcoming Fall 2012, University of Arizona Press) and numerous journal articles and book chapters. In addition to her long-standing research in El Salvador, she has examined the migration of indigenous people from Latin America to the San Francisco Bay Area and new expressions of indigeneity and community building across hemispheric ties. Since joining UC Merced in July 2006 as founding anthropology fac- ulty, she has been instrumental in CURAJ (Community-University Research and Action for Justice), the UC Merced Chancellor’s Task Force on Com- munity Engaged Scholarship, the UC Center of Expertise on Migration and Health (COEMH), and the new UC Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC). Through these efforts she collaborates with UC academics and community-based organizations to direct research and problem-solving attention to Central Valley issues. [email protected] avier Diaz de Leon Executive Director of the Institute of Mexicans JAbroad of the Foreign Ministry of Mexico with a degree in International Relations from Universidad Iberoamericana and a Master degree in International Conflict Negotiation from the University of Kent, Eng- land. He is a member of the Mexican Foreign Affairs since 1991 as Alternate Consul in San Diego, New York, and as Chief of the Immigration and Hispanic Affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in the United States. He functioned as an Adviser to the Undersecre- tary for North America in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [email protected] ori Espeso Montagud, Ph.D Professor at the University of Barcelona ( UB ) Dteaching masters programs in "Mental Health and Psychological Interventions with Immigrants, Refugees and Minorities. She’s also a Professor for Psychiatrists and Clinical Psychologists in the Public University of Catalan Health Service. She has a PHD from the University of Valencia in Spain and the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Some of her extended work has been: Head of Section, at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Child Psychiatrist in Institute of Healthcare in Girona, Spain and a child psychiatrist at Service Psychopathological and Psychosocial Immigrant and Refugees. She is a member of the following: the Communitarian Program for Immigration and Health in Girona, Réseau Européen sponsored by the PRISM (Pôle de Recherche Santé interculturelle in Mental) of the Françoise Minkowska Center in Paris, the World Psychiat- ric Association -Transcultural Section(WPA-TP), and the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry (WCPA ). [email protected]
hannon Gleeson, Ph.D Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latino SStudies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the workplace experiences of immigrants, the role of documentation status, and legal mobilization processes. She also has conducted research on immigrant civic engagement in Silicon Valley and the bureaucratic processes of labor standards enforcement. Her book, “Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston,” is forthcom- ing with ILR/Cornell Press. [email protected] hira Goldenberg, Ph.D Dr. Goldenberg is a Bi-lingual global health Sresearcher with seven years of experience conducting research on social and structural fac- tors shaping HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) risk among mobile, vulnerable populations. She has a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, a Master’s of Science from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Public Health from the UC San Diego and San Diego State University Joint Doctoral Program. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the UCSD Division of Global Public Health, where she has coordinated ethnographic and epidemiological studies of HIV/STI risk among formerly trafficked female sex workers and their male clients in Mexico. She has also worked with the Pan American Health Organization on issues related to mobility and HIV in Central America and Mexico. Her work has been recognized by Pre- and Post- Doctoral awards from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, US-Canada Fulbright program, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and Canadian Public Health Association.
avid Grant, PhD
Is the Director of the California Health Inter- Dview Survey (CHIS) at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Dr. Grant joined the CHIS team in 2001 and became project director in 2006. He is responsible for all aspects of CHIS, includ- ing the planning, data collection, and dissemination phases of CHIS. For 20 years, David Grant has been involved in applied social research at academ- ic and public agencies. In addition to population health and survey meth- odology, his research has focused on urban poverty and demography. Grant received his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his master's and doctorate degrees (1998) in sociology at UCLA.
[email protected] eth Holmes, Ph.D Martin Sisters Endowed Chair and Assistant SProfessor of Health and Social Behavior in the School of Public Health at the University of California Berkeley. Trained as a cultural and medical anthropolo- gist and physician, his work focuses broadly on social hierarchies, health disparities and the ways in which perceptions of social difference naturalize and normalize these inequali- ties. His current book project (entitled Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Indigenous Mexican Farmworkers in the United States) offers a critical ethnography of US-Mexico migration, the social structuring of health and sickness, and the perceptions and responses of medical profession- als. An article from this research has been awarded the Rudolf Virchow Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology. His teaching interests include the social determinants of health, health disparities, medical anthropology, immigration and migration, and global health. Dr. Holmes earned his Ph.D. from the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Program in Medical Anthropology in 2006, and his M.D. from UCSF in 2007. He completed the Physician Scientist Pathway in the Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program at Columbia University in 2011. He also served as Teaching Fellow in the Division of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester and in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University. [email protected]
avid Kyle, PhD Associate Professor of Sociology at UC DDavis, earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He is currently the interim Co-Director of the Center of Expertise in Migration and Health of the 10-campus UC Global Health Institute. He was executive director of the Gifford Center for Popula- tion Studies from 2009-2012. Prof. Kyle has helped pioneer or conceived of the concepts of transnational migration, the migration industry, cogni- tive migration, and the mobile underclass. His recent volume is Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (2nd ed.), with Rey Koslowski (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) and he is author of Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks, and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). His current book proj- ect is, Where Will You Go? Imagining Mobility, Health, and Habitat in the 21st Century. [email protected] aniel López-Acuña, M.D. Director of: the Division of Health Systems and Services Development; the Program Manage- Dment of the Pan American Health Organization; the Recovery and Transition Programs, Health Action in Crisis; Strategies, Policies and Resource management in the Cluster of Health Action in Crisis and appointed Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Or- ganization. Dr. Lopez-Acuña graduated as an M.D. from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has a Masters and Doctoral studies in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. He has been a faculty member of the School of Medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and at the School of Public Health of Mexico. In 1986 he joined the Pan American Health Organization, Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization. He served as Program Analyst and Senior Advisor on Program Planning and Policy Development in the Department of Analysis and Strate- gic Planning. He was appointed Executive Secretary of the Regional Plan for Investment in the Environment and Health, an initiative endorsed by the Ibero- American and English-speaking Caribbean Heads of State. Dr. López-Acuña has published several books and specialized papers and writes frequently for different newspapers in Latin America and Spain. [email protected] avid López-Carr Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He works on links among population, Dhealth, rural development, agriculture, and marine and forest resource use and conservation through ongoing projects in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. He has (co)authored approxi- mately 100 scholarly publications thanks to nearly 5 million dollars raised through over 50 fellowships, grants, and awards from NASA, NSF, NIH, the Mellon and Fulbright Foundations, and numerous other sources. Notable among his scholarly achievements are paper awards from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, the Latin American Specialty Group (SG) of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), the Nystrom Prize for best paper based on a dissertation in Geography, a Univer- sity of North Carolina Post-doctoral Award for Research Excellence, and an Athgo International VIP Award for participation in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). López-Carr’s research has developed synergistically through collaborations with conserva- tion and development organizations, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), WWF, and Conservation International. Currently he is a coordinating lead author of the United Nations Environment Program’s (UNEP) Global Environmental Outlook (Geo-5) in preparation for the Rio de Janeiro 2012 World Summit. [email protected] alaquias Lopez-Cervantes M.D Head of Special Projects Unit in Socio-Medical MResearch of the School of Medicine at the Na- tional Autonomous University of Mexico –UNAM. Dr. Lopez Cervantes is a graduated with an M.D. from the faculty of medicine of UNAM, has a Master degree in Public Health and Doctorate in Philosophy from YALE University. He has a vast experience in research; he currently oversees more than 15 projects, has taught over 55 courses and functions as post-graduate advisor for more than 30 graduate students in UNAM. His Publications are over 83 Scientific Journal Articles, 21 Book Chapters y 16 Books. Some of his most relevant work: Director of Statistics, Planning Department, Health Research, and Epi- demiological Research. Director of the Department of Epidemiology Center for Population and Health Studies, General Director for Coordination and Institutional Development, General Coordination for the National Institutes of Health; Ministry of Health; Chief of the Department of Epidemiology, Direc- tor of Information and Publications, PhD Program Coordinator, and Director of the Center for Health Systems Research; Minister of Clinical Education, School of Medicine, and Ministry of Health and not least Associate Professor, School of Medicine,UNAM. mlopez14@unam.
osé López Rodas Chief of the Department of Community Mental Health NIMH “HD-HN”, in a district of Lima, Peru. Dr. Lopez- JRodas graduated as MD with specialization in Clinical Psychiatry sustained thesis in Manifestations of neurological immaturity and attempted suicide. Train in Social and Com- munity Psychiatry at the University of Keio in Tokyo-Japan. Dr. Lopez-Rodas received the high honor, Hipolito Unanue Award for his research work Cognitive Performance “Risk factors and protec- tive design of prevention programs.”Dr. Lopez-Rodas served as National Coordinator of Mental Health, Ministry of Health, where he made available mental health services in all regions of the country of Peru. He particularly worked on the issue of migration, given the large number of migrants leav- ing, and returning the last few years. He is the author and publisher of several international papers, articles and works of mental health research community; Editor of the Bulletin of Mental Health and Culture, semi-annual appearance in Peru, which contains interviews especially renowned spe- cialists in the field of Mental Health in relation to culture. Dr. Lopez-Rodas himself is the son of migrants from within his country which allowed him to understand better these groups and focus on the three levels of prevention and especially in primary health services. [email protected] nrico A. Marcelli
Associate Professor of Sociology at San EDiego State University. He previously held po- sitions at UCSD’s Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCLA’s Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, UMASS Boston’s Department of Economics, and Harvard University’s School of Public Health. He of- fers courses on survey research methodology, applied econometrics, in- troductory statistics, sociogeography of health, political economy of U.S. immigration, labor economics, urban economics/sociology, and history of economic thought. His research mostly employs a Community-based Biodemographic Survey Research (CBSR) methodology, which builds on the Mexican migrant household (area-probability) sample survey he pioneered with demographer David Heer and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF). Dr. Marcelli has published on the economic integration and effects of unauthorized Mexican migrants, their use of illegal sub- stances, and access to medical care. More recently he estimates that insufficient sleep among U.S. adults is one of the strongest correlates of several leading causes of death, but most of his current work studies be- havioral and biological mechanisms through which home, neighborhood, workplace and social capital influence migrant health using 2007 Boston Metropolitan Immigrant Health & Legal Status Survey (BM-IHLSS) data – an area-based probability sample of Brazilian and Dominican migrants funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). He is also co-editor of Informal Work in Developed Nations (Routledge 2010). [email protected]
eirsten Mihos, MPH Marketing Specialist in the Latino Campaign at the Network for a Healthy California. She Kearned her BA in Intercultural Communication from Cal State University East Bay and her MPH from Uni- versity of California, Davis. She is currently oversee- ing a quasi-longitudinal study of the Latino Campaign, as well as managing a text message pilot for low-income Latinos on the Central Coast. Prior to joining the Network, Keirsten spent 15 years man- aging projects, designing instruction, and delivering customized training programs for corporate and non-profit clients throughout California.
[email protected] shley V. Parks, MPH, CHES, CPH, CPHQ Research Associate UCLA Center for Health Policy Research for the Health DATA program support- Aing assessment efforts for the Turning Data into Action, a CDC REACH CORE Project and is a doctoral student in the UCLA School of Public Health, Department of Health Services. Parks also teaches in-person and online train- ings and provides curriculum development and technical assistance to support the program’s goal of improving the capacity of health experts and advocates to find, understand and present credible data in their policy development work. Parks has experience in work- ing with financial, clinical and administrative data at local health departments and public and private health care organizations. In her past roles she has been responsible for training individuals on data systems, providing technical support and developing custom health data and financial reports and needs assessments. Parks has her master’s degree in public health and has certifi- cations in public health, health education and health care quality. [email protected]
ichael A. Rodríguez, Ph.D Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen MSchool of Medicine at UCLA, Director of the Network for Mul- ticultural Health & Healthcare Research and Associate Direc- tor of the UCLA Primary Care Research Fellowship. His re- search activities focus on ethnic/racial health care disparities including violence prevention, and patient-provider communication of sensitive issues. He is a leading researcher and policy expert in the areas of intimate partner violence, quality of healthcare for multiethnic populations across the age spectrum and workforce diversity. He has published widely and lectured internationally on the topics of intimate partner violence, medical education, and cross-cultural medicine. He has consulted for the World Health Organiza- tion, UNICEF, the Pan American Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute of Medicine. He is also a Board Member for the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California and an Advisor for the Latino Medical Student Association. Dr. Rodriguez mentors and teaches UCLA faculty and trainees in a wide range of schools while volunteering at a com- munity health center serving uninsured patients in Los Angeles. Dr. Rodríguez completed his undergraduate training at the University of California, Berkeley; received his medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; completed his residency from the UC San Francisco’s Family Medicine Residency Program; received his Master of Public Health degree at the John Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health; and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. [email protected] lfonso Rodriguez-Lainz, PhD Migrant Health Specialist for the CDC’s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. Dr. Rodriguez mainA responsibilities include acting as a liaison, coordina- tor, planner and project lead for domestic migrant health activities for the Division. Prior to joining the CDC, Dr. Rodriguez was the senior epidemiologist for the California Office of Binational Border Health, California Department of Public Health. He has extensive experience in coordinating cross-border surveillance and public health projects between California, Mexico and Latin America. Dr. Rodriguez has a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California at Davis. He has coauthored many peer-reviewed publications and several border and migrant health reports. He also teaches courses on migrant health, global surveillance and international epidemiology at SDSU Graduate School or Public Health. [email protected]
gnacio Romero Manager for the Network for a Healthy California’s – Latino Campaign, under the Public Health Institute. He oversees Ithe nine largest Latino populated regions in California. The campaign’s purpose is to empower low-income Latino adults and their families to consume the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables and enjoy physical activity every day. As Latino campaign manager Ignacio plays a crucial role in La- tino targeted media campaigns within the Department of Public Health. Ignacio also assists the CalFesh program with a variety of targeted media and Spanish language content decisions. He has extensive experience working with grass root projects, County infrastructures, state level organizations, and federal agencies. Ignacio comes from a farm working family and values and respects the importance of farm work and the contribution that farm workers bring to the State of California. He is committed to consumer empowerment and using inno- vative public health strategies to make environments healthier for consumers. [email protected] aroline Sanders, MPP Director of Policy Analysis and the “Having Our Say Coalition.” Caroline Sanders earned a Master of CPublic Policy from the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining HOS/CPEHN, Caroline worked as a policy analyst for the California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC) promoting pro-immigrant policies that address and respect the needs and contributions of California’s diverse immi- grant communities and their families. She has also worked as Assistant Policy Director for SEIU United Health Care Workers-West representing over 150,000 health care workers in California and as Policy Director for Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN) in San Jose. Caroline is proficient in Spanish after having lived and worked in Guatemala. [email protected] arc Schenker, Ph.D. Dr. Schenker is a Professor of Medicine Mand Public Health at the UC Davis School of Medicine. He has over 30 years of experience in medicine and public health. He is the founding director of the Davis Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety and the Migration and Health Research Center. He is co-director of the Center of Expertise on Migration and Health of the UC Global Health Institute. His specialty is occupational and environmental disease. He is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and occupational health. He conducts epi- demiologic research and teaches in these areas, with a particular focus on lung disease, reproductive hazards, and the health of immigrants and farm working populations. Dr. Schenker has published over 150 scientific manuscripts and 5 textbooks. He has conducted work on occupational health hazards in the U.S. and Latin America, and has worked on global health committees and programs with collaborators around the world.
ernando M. Torres-Gil’s Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy at UCLA, an Adjunct Professor of Gerontol- Fogy at USC, and Director of the UCLA Center for Policy Research on Aging. He has served as Asso- ciate Dean and Acting Dean at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. He has written six books and over l00 publications, including The New Aging: Politics and Change in America (1992) and Lessons from Three Nations, Volumes I and II (2007). His academic contributions have earned him membership in the prestigious Acad- emies of Public Administration, Gerontology and Social Insurance. His research spans important topics of health and long-term care, disability, entitlement reform, and the politics of aging. Professor Torres-Gil is more than an academic. His first presidential appointment was in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter to the Federal Council on Aging; a White House Fellow under Joseph Califano, and Special Assistant to the subsequent Secretary of HEW, Patricia Harris; appointed by President Bill Clinton as the first-ever U.S. Assistant Secretary on Aging in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Torres-Gil played a key role in promoting the importance of the issues of aging, long-term care and dis- ability, community services for the elderly, and baby boomer preparation for retirement. In 20l0 President Barack Obama appointed him as Vice Chair of the National Council on Disability, an independent federal agency that reports to the Con- gress and White House on federal matters related to disability policy. During his public service in Washington, D.C., he also served as Staff Director of the U.S. House Select Committee on Aging .He currently serves Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as an appointed member of the Board of Airport Commissioners. He continues to provide important leadership in philan- thropy and non-profit organizations as a board member of the AARP Foun- dation and the California Endowment, and he is a former board member of the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California and the Los Angeles Chinatown Service Center.Dr. Torres-Gil was born and raised in Salinas, California, the son of migrant farm workers. He earned his A.A. in Political Science at Hartnell Community College (1968), a B.A. with honors in Political Science from San Jose State University (1970), and an M.S.W. (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) in Social Policy, Planning and Research from the Heller Gradu- ate School in Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. [email protected] rturo Vargas Bustamante, PhD. Professor Vargas Bustamante is an Assistant AProfessor in the Department of Health Ser- vices at the UCLA School of Public Health. He teaches HS200B Health Care Financing and Organization and HS209 Health Care for Vulnerable Populations. He conducts research in two fields: i) health care dispari- ties and ii) health services in developing countries. His health care disparities research focuses on population groups that are overwhelmingly uninsured or that have poor access to health care, predominantly among Hispanics/Latinos and Immigrants. He also spe- cializes in the statistical analyses of disparities in health care access, utiliza- tion, quality and insurance coverage. The outcomes of his research have had direct policy applications, particularly since they estimate the share of dispari- ties that can be attributed to socioeconomic and demographic factors and the corresponding part associated to health system variables, such as usual source of care and insurance status. His research on health services in de- veloping countries focuses in two areas: cross-border health care utilization and healthcare privatization and decentralization in middle-income countries, predominantly in Latin America. Professor Vargas Bustamante holds a PhD (2008) in Public Policy, an M.A. (2006) in Economics and an M.P.P. (2004) all from UC-Berkeley. As part of his professional experience, he worked as a consultant for the Inter-Amer- ican Development Bank and for the California Program on Access to Care, where he was responsible for the cross-border health insurance project. His professional career began in the Health Financing Administration of the Mexi- can Ministry of Health. [email protected] teven P. Wallace, Ph.D. Professor and chairperson of the Department of Community Health Sciences, and Associate Di- Srector of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dr. Wallace has studied immigration issues since the mid-1980s when he first studied Central American immigration to the U.S. and the effects of immigration reform (IRCA) on immigrant communi- ties in the San Francisco Bay Area. His interest in migration issues since then has focused primarily on access to health care and services for the elderly. His work has included studies of both Latin American and Asian immigrant elders, as well as analyses of access to health care and preventive services for non- elderly adults. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles, 25 book chap- ters and dozens of policy briefs. His current research includes projects that building community-based participatory research skills among environment health science researchers and immigrant communities in Los Angeles that are impacted by environmental health disparities, an analysis of the impact of health care reform on undocumented immigrants, and several studies that identify the gaps in health policies for underserved elders in the state. Wal- lace received a Fulbright Fellowship for research and lecturing in Chile in 2000 where he studied the impact of public policies on health equity among the elderly. Wallace earned his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Cali- fornia, San Francisco. He is a co-author in several publications, most recent: Improving Access to Health Care for Mexican Immigrants; “Health Barriers.”; Encyclopedia of Immigrant Health; “Heading South: Why Mexican Immigrants in California Seek Health Services in Mexico.” “Access to Preventive Services for Adults of Mexican Origin” a Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. [email protected] tephen Waterman, MD, MPH Dr. Waterman is the lead for the CDC Division of Global Migration and Quarantine’s U.S. – SMexico Unit which focuses on binational and migrant health and includes the CDC Quarantine Stations in San Diego, California, and El Paso, Texas. He re- ceived his MD from the University of Cincinnati and master’s degree in epidemiology from UCLA, board certified in pediatrics and preventive medicine and trained in pediatric infectious diseases. Dr. Waterman has worked as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the CDC Division of Vector-borne Infectious Diseases, led the communicable disease control pro- grams in Los Angeles and San Diego Counties and the California State Epide- miologist; a collaborator with the Mexican Secretariat of Health on a variety of projects including binational infectious disease outbreaks of dengue, pandemic influenza H1N1 and Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Dr. Waterman has functioned as a consultant through PAHO on Mexico’s immunization and polio surveillance programs; a CDC consultant to the Mexico Applied Epidemiology Residency Program and CDC principal investigator for the Border Infectious Disease Sur- veillance program and also facilitated binational epidemiologic and laboratory training. Dr. Waterman is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine Global Health Division at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health. Dr. Waterman also has authored and co-authored over 80 scientific publications on infec- tious disease epidemiologic topics such vaccine preventable, food borne, and vector-borne diseases, influenza and tuberculosis and also co-author along with leadership from the Secretariat of Health of the US- Mexico Guidelines for Coordination on Public Health Events of Mutual Interest, and helps coordinate the CDC-Secretariat of Health US- Mexico Binational Technical Work Group Infectious Disease Section. [email protected] olitha Wickramage, Dr. Public health specialist, head of health programs for the International Organization of Migration K(IOM) in Sri Lanka. He leads the technical cooperation agenda with the Government of Sri Lanka on Migration, Health and development, and does so within an Inter- Ministerial process. He previously worked with the World Health Organization (WHO) and then with IOM in de- signing and delivering emergency medical care and humanitarian health sector interventions in post-war and natural disaster contexts. He currently manages a post-conflict health systems strengthening program in the war affected North- ern districts. In 2011, he led IOM efforts in the National Migration Health study in Sri Lanka, and has peer-reviewed publications on public health, mental health and health system in conflict. [email protected] aría Luisa Zúñiga, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Behavioral Epide- miologist in the Division of Global Public Health, MUniversity of California, San Diego School of Medicine. She holds a secondary appointment in the Division of Aca- demic General Pediatrics, Child Development and Com- munity Health where she serves as Director for the Center for Community Health. She serves as Core Faculty for the UCSD/SDSU Joint Doctoral Programs in Global Health and Health Behavior, Faculty Director of the Mexican Migration Field Training Program at UCSD (http://ccis.ucsd.edu/programs/mmfrp/) and Campus Director for the UC Global Health Institute’s tri-campus Master of Science in Global Health. Dr. Zúñiga’s research focus is on improving the health of Latino populations and migrant communities in the U.S. She has expertise in access to health care among persons who migrate between Latin America and the U.S.; health care delivery systems in the US and Mexico and binational health care access and utilization. She also specializes in: medication adherence, cross-cultural patient-physician communication, and complementary and alternative medicine practices. Dr. Zúñiga specializes in Community–Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to conduct research that is relevant and response to community health concerns. She has developed expertise in bioethics and responsible conduct of research with vulnerable populations and communities. [email protected] THIRD ANNUAL COEMH RESEARCH TRAINING WORKSHOP AGENDA
The Center of Expertise on Migration and Health
Location: The California Endowment, Sierra Room
Session 1 Monday - June 25 1:30-4:30 pm Co-chairs and Discussants: Professor Robin DeLugan (UCM) and Professor María Zúñiga (UCSD)
“Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Reproductive Health among Migrant and Non-migrant Mexican Women from Tunkás, Yucatán,” Rebecca Espinoza, Isela Martínez, Alicia Rodríguez, Matthew Levin, Teresa Chan (UCSD)
“Migration, the Body, and Masculinity: Studying the Effects of Migration on Male Conceptions of the Body and Sexual and Reproductive Health in Mexico and the United States,” Oscar F. Gil-García (UCSB)
"Socioeconomic Status, Social Integration, and the Well-being of Female Marriage Migrants in South Korea: A Comparison among Korean Chi- nese, Han Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodian," Hsin-Chieh Chang (UCLA)
“The Exclusion of Expectant Undocumented Mexican Mothers from Maternity Leave Policies in California,” Christine Brito (UCB)
“Substance Abuse and Migration: a Binational Study among Mexican Migrants in Yucatán and California,” Miguel Pinedo, Daniela Leal, Julio Fregoso, Yasmin Campos (UCSD) Session 2 Tuesday - June 26 1:30-4:30 pm Co-chairs and Discussants: Professor Shannon Gleeson (UCSC) and Professor Wayne Cornelius (UCSD)
“Depressive Symptoms in a Transnational Community in Yucatán, Mexico, and California,” Marcella Hernández and Hugo Salgado (UCSD)
“Entertainment-Education and the Self-Efficacy to Seek Mental Health Treatment: Assessing the Effects of a Depression Fotonovela,” María Hernández (UCB)
“Underemployment and Health among the Foreign-Born,” Annie Ro (UCLA)
“Transnational Health Care: Exploring State-Driven Solutions in El Salva- dor,” Max William Hadler (UCLA)
Session 3 Wednesday - June 27 1:30-4:30 pm
Co-chairs and Discussants: Professor Claire Brindis (UCSF) and Professor Frank Bean (UCI)
“Naturalization and Functional Limitations in Older Age among Mexican and Non-Mexican Immigrants: Education Effects by Age-at-Arrival,” Zoya Gubernskaya (UCI)
“Familism and Immigrant Generation: Measuring Obesity and Diabetes among Mexican-Americans,” Carolyn Zambrano (UCI)
“Twin Gods: A Mixed-Method Investigation of Diet Change in Latino Im- migrants,” Daniel Ervin (UCSB)
“Domestic and International Migration as a Risk Factor in Obesity: A Binational Study in Yucatán, Mexico, and California,” Eastern Kang, Allison Van Vooren, Karen Velez, Karina González, Mirel Briseño, and David Keyes (UCSD) 7th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday June 27, 2012
12:30 to 1:30pm – Redwood Room
“Binational Cervical Cancer Outreach Project” Connie Lafuente, California Office of Bina- tional Border Health
“Implications of parental migration on under- age children’s health access, information and possibilities” María Luisa Calderón, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
“Empowering and Tracing health care as strategies implemented in a social space by chronically ill transnational migrants” Alejandra G. Lizardi-Gómez, Universidad de Guadalajara
“Health Advantage or Cultural Maintenance? The Benefits of Zuo Yen Zi for American-born Chinese Mothers” Kris R. Noam, UC Irvine
“They use the pesticide so the tree can grow better”: Using Ethnography and Photovoice to Understand Farmworker Community Perceptions of Childhood Asthma Norah Schwartz, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Our Sponsors
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