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In a country where one in seven residents is an immigrant and about 15 million people live within 100 kilometers of the US-Mexico border, there are significant disparities in health status between people born in the US and those who have immigrated, and the demographics are changing constantly.
The July 2021 thematic issue of Health Affairs takes an intensive
look at the policy issues related to immigrants, borders, and health. Articles describe current migration trends and supply new data analysis and commentary on how policies can address disparities and ease the disproportionate health burden borne by immigrants.
In normal times, the release of a Health Affairs issue of this significance would be accompanied by a large, in-person event in Washington, DC. In the continuing, though waning, era of COVID-19, Health Affairs will instead highlight the content of the issue in two online events featuring key papers and authors, and a high-level discussion with experts and the audience:
Border Health: Evidence & Policy Issues
Monday, July 12, 2021, 1:30-3 pm (EDT)
You are invited to join us on Monday, July 12, for an event focused on health and health policy on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Authors will present research on topics including life expectancy of populations who have crossed the border, insurance coverage statistics for adults and children, trauma and safety issues for those faced with expedited expulsion from America to the Northern Triangle, and the effects of COVID-19 on immigrants and asylum seekers. The event will also feature a high-level conversation with well-known experts on the broader issues policy makers, including the new American president, are confronting every day.
Featuring (in alphabetical order):
• Ietza Bojorquez-Chapela, Professor-Researcher, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, on “In-Transit Migrants And Asylum Seekers: Inclusion Gaps In Mexico's COVID-19 Health Policy Response”
• Sharon Borja, Assistant Professor, Graduate College of Social
Work, University of Houston, on “Health Insurance Access Among U.S. Citizen Children in Mexico: National and Transborder Policy Implications”
• Arturo Vargas Bustamante, Professor of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
• Hilda Dávila Chávez, former Director General of International Relations, Secretaria de Salud, Mexico; US-Mexico Border Health Commission delegate; and Seminario de Estudios de la Globalidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• C. Nicholas Cuneo, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, on “What Counts As 'Safe'?: An Analysis Of Forensic Evaluations From Northern Triangle Of Central America Asylum-Seekers”
• Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, Director of Research, Latino Policy and Politics Initiative, UCLA, on “Health Insurance Coverage In Mexico Among Return Migrants: Differences Between Voluntary Return Migrants And Deportees”
• Sandra Hernández, President and CEO, California Health Care
Foundation
• Elizabeth A. Pollack, Assistant Scientist, Population Health Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, on “Life Expectancy at the US-Mexico Border: Evidence of Place- and Race-based Disparities”
• Others TBA
We also invite you to save the date for a second online event highlighting the July 2021 Health Affairs thematic issue: Immigrant Health: Evidence & Policy Issues, Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 1:30-3 pm (EDT). For
more information and to RSVP, click
here.
Health Affairs is grateful to Arturo Vargas Bustamante of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health who served as theme issue adviser. We thank the California Health Care Foundation, The California Endowment, and Con Alma Health Foundation for their financial support of this issue.
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