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Border Health

The Border Health initiative advises the HRSA Administrator on public health planning and policy development within the context of a HRSA-wide planning framework, which promotes and protects the health care of the American people living along the U.S.-Mexico Border area. This is accomplished by emphasizing six themes: primary health care, collaboration/integration of existing programs, health promotion/disease prevention, systems development, human resources development and health systems financing.

ORHP facilitates intra-agency border health activities, including:

• Work with the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission to support Bi-national Health Week in 14-sister cities along the U.S.-Mexico Border. 
• The Launch of the Border Health Web site   at the Rural Assistance Center (RAC).

ORHP collaboration with HRSA Bureaus to:

• Support of the President's initiative to expand Community Health Centers (CHCs) (which currently include 31 CHCs in the border region)
• Support  AIDS Health Education Centers (AETCs), Area Health Education Centers (AHECs), and HIV/AIDS Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) border initiatives to improve access to health care.

HRSA collaboration with other Federal partners include:

• Support of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's (NHLBI) Salud Para Su Corazon orHealth for Your Heart program
• Support of environmental health training programs with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Border Health Research Conferences

• Options for Improving Access to Clinical Information for Border Health Grantees (PDF - 211KB)
  Rockville, MD, December 8-9, 2008

U.S.-Mexico Border Centers of Excellence Consortium

• Community-Based Programs to Create a Community-Responsive Health Professions Workforce (PDF - 267KB)
  Albuquerque, NM, July 14-15, 2008
• How Border Clinicians Access Evidence-Based Information and Implement into Practice, U.S. - Mexico Border Centers of Excellence Consortium Forum Proceedings (PDF - 337 KB)
  San Diego, CA, July 19, 2009