United States Mexico Border Health Commission
Mission
To identify and evaluate current and future health problems affecting the population in the United States-Mexico Border Area and to encourage and facilitate actions to address these problems.
Key Priorities
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To conduct public health needs assessments in the United States-Mexico Border Area,
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To conduct or support investigations, research or studies designed to identify and monitor Health Problems;
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To provide financial, technical or administrative support to assist the efforts of public and private nonprofit entities to prevent and resolve Health Problems
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To conduct or support health promotion and disease prevention activities in the United States-Mexico Border Area; and
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To conduct or support the establishment of an extensive and coordinated system, which uses advanced technologies to the extent possible, for gathering health-related data and monitoring Health Problems in the Unites States-Mexico Border Area.
The Commission was created in 1994 under the Public Law 103-400, then as a binational health commission in July 2000 with the signing of an agreement by the Secretary of Health and Human Services of the United States and the Secretary of Health of México.
