HRSA Border Health Summit

On August 22-24, 2006 HRSA and the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy organized the first HRSA Border Health Summit in Tucson, AZ. The theme being “Partners in Action for a Healthy Border”. Approximately 100 attendees participated, representing HRSA grantees located in the border region, other key border health stakeholders, and other Federal agency partners.

Plenary sessions included updates on border initiatives from the Pan American Health Organization, the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association, the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission and State-specific initiatives. Sessions covered the pandemic flu, HIV/AIDS sponsored programs, and border workforce analysis. Primary care and oral health research and education programs were described, including diabetes, the BIDS project, health literacy, and an analysis of diabetes/tuberculosis findings. A presentation on environmental issues and their impact was followed by a comprehensive overview of demographic projections and their subsequent impact along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The presentation of success stories from each State’s prior years’ bi-national border health week celebrations set the stage for the State breakout sessions. State teams met to network and discuss current health care challenges and prioritize identifiable needs and recommendations. Recommendations from these sessions can be accessed below along with the meeting agenda, presentations, participants list, and HRSA fiscal year 2005 awards to grantees along the border.

The summit agenda, participant list, breakout proceedings, presentations, and the HRSA Border Investments, are listed below.

ORHP has one additional cooperative agreement:

1. Border Environmental Health Coordination Program Cooperative Agreement: The purpose of this program is to fund research to test the hypothesis that environmental education and training is an effective intervention tool for improving public health. The population that has been targeted is lay community health workers, or promotoras, residing along the U.S.-Mexico border, and the communities they serve. This project, jointly sponsored by EPA and HRSA, supports larger Border health efforts including, but not limited to, the U.S.-Mexico Border 2012 program.

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• Agenda
• List of Participants
• Breakout Proceedings
• Presentations
  • Mountain Plains Border Activities: Level III, presented by Lucy Bradley-Springer, U.S.-Mexico Border Aids Educations and Training Center.
  • The Border Health Workforce, presented by Antonio Furino, Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies.
  • HRSA HIV/AIDS Sponsored Programs, presented by Oscar Gonzalez, TX/OK AETC Border Project.
  • Population Change in the United States: Implications for Human and Socioeconomic Resources in the Southwest Border and Non-Border Areas in the 21st Century, presented by Steve Murdock, Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research and Regional Center for Health Workforce Studies.
  • United States – México Border Health Commission: An Overview, presented by Emma Torres, member Border Health Commission.
  • Demonstration and Evaluation Models that Advance Service Innovation Along the U.S. – Mexico Border, 2000 – 2005, presented by Adan Cajina, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  • U.S.- Mexico Border 2012 Environmental Health Workgroup: Forming Border-Wide Partnerships, presented by Rebecca Daniels.
  • AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC’s) and UMBAST, presented by Tom Donohoe, U.S.-Mexico Border Aids Educations and Training Center.
  • HHS Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Planning, presented by Miguel A. Escobedo, CDC El Paso Quarantine Station.
  • South Texas: Addressing the Health Shortage, presented by Tina Fields, Center for South Texas Programs.
  • Border Infectious Disease Surveillance Program, presented by Maureen Fonseca-Ford and Stephen Waterman, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine.
  • Health Literacy: Making Sense of Health Information, presented by Enrique Mata, Paso del Norte Health Foundation.
  • Tuberculosis and Diabetes: Two Old Friends Meet at the Texas/Mexico Border, presented by Joseph McCormick, the Hispanic Health Research Center and Nuevo Santander Tuberculosis Trackers.
  • Pan American Health Organization Update on Border Activities, presented by Kam Mung, Pan American Health Organization.
  • U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association, presented by Manuel Robles Linares, U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association.
  • Diabetes Research along the Arizona/Sonora Border, presented by Lisa K. Staten, Southwest Center for Community Health Promotion.
  • Salud Para Su Corazon Models of Collaboration, presented by Hector Balcazar, Frank Cantu, and Matilde Alvarado.
  • Border Health in Arizona presented by Lynda Bergsma, Rural Health Office, University of Arizona.
  • Office of Rural Community Affairs: Where Rural Texas Comes First, presented by Theresa Cruz, Office of Rural Community Affairs.
  • City of Laredo Health Department, presented by Héctor F. González, Health Director.
  • Border Binational Health Week, October 2005. Activities in New Mexico/Chihuahua Border Region, presented by Benjamín Jácquez, SoAHEC.
  • Border Health in New Mexico, presented by Wayne Propst, Office of Policy and Multicultural Health.
  • Border Binational Health Week, October 8-16, 2005, San Diego/Tijuana Report, presented by Elizabeth Santillanez, California Outreach Office, U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission.
  • 2005 California Binational Health Week Celebration, presented by Monica Torres and Cynthia Ferreiro, Clinicas De Salud Del Pueblo, Inc.
• HRSA Border Investments, 2005