California Border Health Collaborative

Purpose: To bring together governmental, academic, and private public health California border region stakeholders to share ideas and expertise for collaboration of projects.

Goals:

1. To facilitate communication, knowledge, and best practices amongst groups/organizations/people that are performing public health work in the California Border Region (San Diego and Imperial Counties).
2. To work together to bring resources to the CA Border Region.  These resources would be used to address the many public health needs of the Region.
3. To educate and advocate with local, state, and federal policymakers regarding public health issues affecting our Border Region.

Coordinated by:

• California Office of Binational Border Health (COBBH)
• San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (SDHHSA)
• Imperial County Public Health Department (ICPHD)

Collaborative Members:

California Department of Public Health:

-Emergency Preparedness Office;                                                                            

-Office of Binational Border Health (COBBH Core, Early Warning Infectious Disease Surveillance Program, U.S.- Mexico Border Health Commission-California Outreach Office);                                                                                                                         

-STD Control Branch

California State University, San Marcos:                                                                 

-School of Anthropology, National Latino Research Center

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Clinicas de Salud del Pueblo

Council of Community Clinics

Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District

Health Initiative of the Americas, University of California, Berkeley

Imperial County Public Health Department

International Community Foundation

Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest

Project Concern International

San Diego City College

San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency:

-Border Health Program;

-Central and South Regions;

-STD, HIV, and Hepatitis Branch;

-TB and Refugee Health Branch

San Diego State University:

-Graduate School of Public Health, Institute for Public Health

San Ysidro Health Center

Sekure Healthcare

University of California, San Diego:  

-School of Medicine, Division of Global Public Health, HIV Binational Research Studies

For more information, contact April Fernandez, Program Manager, California Office of Binational Border Health: april.fernandez@cdph.ca.gov