2015FRONTERAsummer internship

opening ceremonyWednesday, June 3, 2015

9:00 – 10:30 am

The University of Arizona College of Medicine

Room 2117

Office of Diversity and Inclusion The University of Arizona, College of Medicine

1501 N. Campbell Ave., Rm. 1119B Tucson, AZ 85724

P: 520.621.5531 E: azhealth@email.arizona.edu

W: diversity.medicine.arizona.edu

Mentor TraineeRick Kittles, PhD Isabel Aguilar-Barragan

Anna Ochoa O’Leary, PhD Kayla Darris

Mark “Marty” Pagel, PhD Lizette Garcia Ramirez

Antonio Estrada, MSPH, PhD Taylor Guidri

Valentine Nfonsam, MD Dillon Hollander

Deepti Deshpande, MD, MPH, FAAP Karen Ibarra

Raymond Runyan, PhD Nikki Javi

David Garcia, PhD Andrea Rodriguez

David G Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD Jennifer Salazar

Anna Ochoa O’Leary, PhD Italia Trejo

Opening Ceremony Schedule9–9:10 am Opening Remarks

Francisco Moreno, MD Deputy Dean, Diversity and Inclusion, Professor, Psychiatry

9:10–9:30 am Immigration enforcement policies and practices shape the lives of Latinos including their health, education, economic progress Anna Ochoa O’Leary, PhD Head of the Department of Mexican American Studies

9:35–9:55 am Healthy Border: A Place-Based Approach Antonio Estrada, , MSPH, PhD Professor, Mexican American Studies and Public Health

10:00–10:20 am An Overview of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region Howard Eng Dr.PH, MS, RPh Assistant Professor in Public Health and Pharmacy Practice

10:25–10:30 am Closing Remarks Francisco Moreno, MD Deputy Dean, Diversity and Inclusion, Professor, Psychiatry

10:35–10:45 am Mentors/Mentees introductions

Anna Ochoa O’Leary, PhDDr. Anna Ochoa O’Leary, Mexican American Studies Department Head, received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. Her dissertation, “Investment in Female Education as an Economic Strategy among U.S.-Mexican Households in Nogales, Arizona,” was supported by NSF funding. Since 2002, she has taught a range of classes for the Department. Currently, she teaches two graduate classes,

Mexican Migration, and the Feminization of Migration, and an undergraduate class, Latin American Migration and the Remaking of the U.S.

She has a text book to her credit, a Chicano Studies textbook based on her teach-ing Overview of Mexican American Studies (MAS 265), which was published in 2007 by Kendall Hunt Publishing. More recently, she co-edited ) Unchartered Terrain: New Directions in Border Research Method and Ethics. (University of Arizona Press, 2013) and is editor of Undocumented Immigrants in the United States Today: An Encyclopedia of their Experiences (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2014).

Antonio L. Estrada, MSPH, PhDAntonio L. Estrada, MSPH, PhD, is Professor of Mexican American Studies and Public Health at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. and MS degrees in Public Health with training in Behavioral Sciences/Health Education, Social Epidemiology, and Evaluation Research from the UCLA School of Public Health. His research interests include HIV disease among injection drug users and their sexual partners, prevention with HIV

positives, and Hispanic/Latino health disparities. He has been the Principal Investigator on two R01 research grants, a NIH minority supplement, has served as Co-Principal Investigator on three NIH funded grants and has received State and private foundation funding for his research. He is co-author of Sana! Sana! Mexican Americans and Health, second edition (forthcoming, UA Press).

Howard Eng, DrPH, MS, RPhDr. Eng is Assistant Professor in Public Health and Pharmacy Practice and Sciences and Director of the Southwest Border Rural Health Research Center, Arizona Rural Heath Office in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona. He has 40 years of experi-ence working in health care, including 28 years as a health services/policy researcher and 22 years of experience working in rural Arizona,

He has been a faculty member in the Colleges of Pharmacy, Medicine, and Public Health. Dr. Eng’s training and expertise includes health services and policy research, health economics, epidemiology, public health, border health, rural health, and pharmacy. He has more than 20 years of experience working along U.S.-Mexico Border on various projects that have increased access to health services by border populations. His border health research interests include issues related to access and barriers to health services, binational health care delivery systems, cross border health services usage, monitoring Healthy Border 2010 achievements, and role of community health workers (promotores) in health promotion and disease prevention. Dr. Eng was selected by the White House as a Champion of Change and was honored at the White House on April 24, 2014.