Virtual Seminar on Coronavirus 2019 for the US-Mexico Border Region: Building Opportunities for Communication and
Benjamin Aceves1,2, Nicolas Lopez-Galvez3, Gudelia Rangel4,5
1Division of Public Health Practice and Translational Research, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, 550 E. Van Buren Street, UA Phoenix Plaza Building 1, Phoenix, AZ, 85724, USA. benjamin.aceves@ucsf.edu.
Abstract:
While the US-Mexico border region has had increasing restrictions due to coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), the economically and socially integrated region continues to facilitate necessary movement between the two countries. Binational partners representing universities, government, and health delivery worked together to develop a COVID-19 Virtual Seminar for the US-Mexico Border Region, which consisted of weekly sessions in Spanish designed to better facilitate communication and collaborative systems between border states. In total 835 participants registered for the virtual seminar with attendance ranging from 394 in Session 1 to 269 in Session 6. From evaluation surveys (n = 297), organizers observed a large plurality of healthcare professionals, followed by students, researchers, and government employees. The seminar's contribution to increasing collaborative and communication systems identified major needs in the region surrounding surveillance and monitoring; increased resources for migrant shelters to control outbreaks; an increase in personal protective equipment; tracking binational cases.
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