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Mexico
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Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
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The Universidad Autonoma de Baja California (UABC) is the main state and federally funded university in the State of Baja California. UABC has three campuses in the state with a total of 40,000 students. UABC has 3 schools of medicine, three postgraduate programs in the following areas: 1) public health, 2) health sciences including: nutrition, psychology, dentistry, community health, molecular biology and physiology, 3) family medicine. UABC runs two university community health centers for underserved people (CUMAIs). UABC has existing agreements and research collaboration with all public health provider institutions in the region including hospitals and first and second level clinics. These health facilities offer services ranging from outpatient and inpatient services, preventive medicine in infectious and chronic diseases, urgent and emergency care, surgical care, social work, rehabilitation services, radiology, image and pharmacy services.
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Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
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The University of Texas at EI Paso (UTEP) College of Health Sciences (CHS) serves as a Training Site for Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars and Fellows. UTEP is uniquely situated less than one kilometer from the Mexican border adjacent to Ciudad Juarez - a major metropolitan area of over 1.5 million inhabitants. The College of Health Sciences, is the leading health sciences research center in West Texas and emphasizes border health and minority health in its research programs. CHS, through its 8 academic departments, has ongoing research projects in diabetes, HIV, drug abuse, family violence, occupational injury, environmental health, enteric infection, obesity, tuberculosis and other health problems endemic to the border region. UTEP is a minority-serving institution with a Hispanic student body of nearly 80%. UTEP is a bilingual, bi-cultural university with deep ties to the Ciudad Juarez, Mexico community. CHS has close ties to its partner university, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez, for decades.
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