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Xóchitl Castañeda is the Director of Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA) at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. A medical anthropologist by training, Xóchitl was educated in Guatemala and Mexico and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in reproductive health at UC San Francisco; and a post-doctoral in social science and medicine at Harvard and at Amsterdam Universities. She directed the Reproductive Health Department at Mexico's National School of Public Health for seven years. Since 2008, she has served as a professor on Migration and Health at various UC campuses.

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In 1999, she received the National Mexican Award on Social Science and Medicine, for the impact of her work on reproductive health. In 2010, the California Latino Legislative Caucus honored her with the National Spirit Award for her leadership in initiatives to improve the health of Latino immigrants in the U.S.

Xóchitl has over 150 publications and has served as a consultant for more than 37 national and international institutions. She has also served in the Boards of Directors, and other honorable membership positions of 20 organizations and programs including, the California Wellness Foundation, the Kaiser Permanente Latino Health Advisory Committee; the CDC National Diabetes Education Program; the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California; the United Health Care Children's Foundation; and the National Council of Mexican Federations in North America (COFEM). She has contributed to the editorial board and has provided her services to 14 professional publications. She has presented the results of her academic and advocacy work in over 400 national/international conferences, symposiums, policy briefings, and other events.

Under her direction, HIA has coordinated for 15 consecutive years Binational Health Week, one of the largest mobilization efforts in the Americas to improve the wellbeing of Latino immigrants. She has created the Annual Binational Policy Forum on Migration and Global Health, a collaboration among 30 Universities and over 200 agencies. She is the founder of the Network of Mexican Immigrant Women in the US (REMEX); the Agricultural Workers Occupational Health and Safety Resource Center; the Migration and Health Resource Repository; and the Zacatecan Binational Health Initiative (IBIZA). She is also the founder and co-director of the "Athenea Network" a world organization for Mental Health of Mobile Populations. She has signed 46 Memorandums of Understandings with local, state and federal institutions. Through all these strategies, hundreds of thousands of low-income families have been served.

Programmatic Achievements

2014–Present 
Academic Coordinator. UC-Mexico Health Initiative, Health Working Group. Led by UCOP, UNAM, and CONACYT to advance scientific binational collaborations
2013–Present 
Agricultural Workers Occupational Health and Safety Resource Center. Collaboration between HIA and Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, UCD http://migranthealth.ucdavis.edu
2013–Present 
Funder, Migration and Health Resource Repository. Collaboration with UCB-SPH, UCGHI-COEMH and MAHRC http://agcenter.ucdavis.edu/migration/migration.php
2011–Present 
Founding Director. Zacatecan Binational Health Initiative (IBIZA). Collaboration between HIA and the Government of the State of Zacatecas http://hiaibiza.wordpress.com/
2010–Present 
Funder and Co-Director "Athenea Network" . World Organization for Mental Health and Mobile Populations. International Mental Migrant Health Congress. http://laredatenea.com/english/index.html
2006–Present 
Executive Administrator. Summer Institute on Migration and Health and Research Training Workshop. SPH-UCB, UCGHI/COEMH.
2005–Present 
Director. Research Program on Migration and Health (PIMSA). The largest US-Mexico leading academic network of researchers and doctoral students. Partnership with University of Arizona, Texas A & M University, CONACYT, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of New Mexico, University of Minnesota, and State University of New York.
2001–Present 
Lead Person. Signing Memorandum of Understanding (MOUs) with over 46 national and international institutions and programs to improve the health of immigrant populations http://hia.berkeley.edu/index.php?page=agreements
2001–Present 
Founding and National Coordinator. Annual Binational Health Week. 16 consecutive years grass-roots movement reaching over 400,000 underserved Latinos annually in 46 California counties, operating in 40 other states and in 3 provinces of Canada, with the participation of over 10,000 agencies and 20,000 volunteers.

Honors, Recognitions, and Distinctive Appointments

2016 
Special recognition "Planning Committee of the Bay Area for the XVI Binational Health Week ,2016". Recognition by the Consulate General of Mexico, San Francisco.
2014 
External Advisory Committee. UCSF Pregnancy Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (PEEC) Children's Center.
2013 
National Recognition. National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP-CDC) for contributions toward "Changing the Way Diabetes is treated in the U.S."
2009 - 2012 
Elected Advisor. Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME). Appointed by President Felipe Calderon, Mexico
2011 
National Recognition. Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) for contributions to the Hispanic/Latino Work Group in the fight against diabetes and health disparities.
2011 
Distinctive Recognition by the Government of Mexico City for my work with the Mexican Community in the United States. By Marcelo Ebrad, Governor
2010 
The National Annual Latino Spirit Award, by The California Latino Legislative Caucus for my work with immigrant communities in the United States
2010 
International Recognition for leading the "Public Policy Forum on Health and Migration". Honor by the Zacatecas Government, Mexico
2010 
California Latino Legislative Caucus Resolution for her work to improve Latino's health

Board Member and Honorable Positions

2016–Present 
Advisory Board Member. MEX I AM
2015–Present 
Board of Directors, The California Wellness Foundation
2014–Present 
Advisory Member. University of California HIV/AIDS Research Program
2014–Present 
Leadership Committee Member. California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC)
2014–Present 
Advisor. UCSF Pregnancy Exposures to Environmental Chemicals Children's Center
2013–Present 
Board of Directors. Latino Coalition for a Healthy California (LCHC)
2013–Present 
Board of Directors. Médica Sur Hospital, Mexico
2007–Present 
Board of Directors. National Council of Mexican Federations in North America (COFEM)
2005–Present 
Advisory Board. Texas Center for Health Disparities, UT Health Science Center

Public Service Assignments and Honorable Memberships

2016–Present 
Strategic Planning Coordinator. Western Center for Agricultural Health & Safety, UCD
2013 - 2016 
Co- Director. Center of Expertise on Migration and Health, UC Global Health Institute (COEMH-UCGHI)
2015 
Advisory Board member. UC Davis, Center of Excellence for Refugee Health
2006 - 2014 
Member of the Hispanic/Latino workgroup of the National Diabetes Education Program
2005 - 2014 
Selection Committee Judge. Binational Health Week Visual Image Competition
2006 - 2013 
Policy Leadership Council Member. California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation

Articles in International Journals

2015 
Achótegui J, Amutio A, Castañeda X, Martinez-Taboada C, Mera M. Migratory Mourning during Adolescence: Planning Processes of Acculturation and Self-esteem. Running Head: Migratory Mourning.
2013 
Castañeda X, Leite P, Angoa M, Felt E, Schenker M, Ramirez T. Health Outcomes of Mexican Immigrant Women in the United States. Migration Information Source. Online Journal of the Migration Policy Institute
2012 
Sanchez M, Hernández M, Hanson J, Vera A, Magis C, Ruiz J, Garza A, Castañeda X, Aoki B, Lemp G. The Effect of Migration on HIV High-Risk Behaviors among Mexican Migrants. J Acquire Immune Defic Syndr 2012: (61) 610–617
2012 
Castañeda X, Castañeda N, Ruiz M. Mexican Immigrants in the US. Specific Groups and Addiction. In Actualidades en Adicciones, 2012: (5) 15-34
2012 
Cassady D, Castañeda X, Ruiz M, Miller M, Andrews T, Osorio L. Pandemics and Vaccines: Perceptions, Reactions, and Lessons Learned from hard-to-reach Latinos and the H1N1 Campaign. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2012: (23)1106–1122
2011 
Parrini R, Castañeda X, Magis-Rodríguez C, Ruiz J, Lemp G. Identity, Desire and Truth: Construction of a Homoerotic Social Scene among Mexican Migrant Communities in the USA. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2011:13 (4) 415-425

Book Chapters

2014 
Castaneda X, Rodriguez-Lainz A. Studying Migrant Populations, General Considerations and Approaches: Migration and Health, a Research Methods Handbook. University of California Press. (ISBN 978-0-520-27795-3)
2013 
Castañeda X, Felt E, Martinez-Taboada C, Castañeda N, Ramirez T. Migratory Stress and Mental Health in Adolescent Young Adult Mexican Immigrants Living in the United States: Contextualizing Acculturation. In Immigrants: Acculturation, Socioeconomic Challenges and Cultural Psychology. Judy Ho (Ed), Nova Science Publishers. (ISBN 978-1-62808-617-1)
2013 
Castañeda X, Zavella P. Las fronteras y los espacios del cuerpo: sexualidad, riesgo y vulnerabilidad en mujeres migrantes mexicanas en California. Ellas se van: Mujeres migrantes en Estados Unidos y España. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM Press. (ISBN 978-607-02-4355-4)
2011 
Castañeda X, Ruiz M, Felt E, Schenker M. Health of Migrants: Working Towards a Better Future. In Global Health, Global Health Education, and Infectious Disease: The New Millennium, Part 1. Veljil A. Moellering R. (Eds.) Elsevier Press
2010 
Castañeda X, Schenker M, Felt E. Binational Innovation in Latino Immigrant Health: the Health Initiative of the Americas. In Reflections about Mexican Migration and Public Policy. Leite P and Giorguli S. (Eds) CONAPO Press, 99-110

Books

2016 
Castaneda X, Bermúdez J, Reyes A, Wallace S. Migration and Health Perspectives on the immigrant population. Mexican Secretariat of the Interior Press (ISBN 978-607-427-278-9)
2015 
Bermúdez J, Reyes A, Schenker M, Castaneda X, Felt E, Wallace S. Migration and Health. Profile of Latin Americans in the United States. Mexican Secretariat of the Interior Press (ISBN 978-607-427-265-9)
2014 
Schenker M, Castaneda X, Rodriguez A. (Editors) Migration and Health Research Methodologies: a handbook for the study of migrant populations in the 21st Century. UC Press (ISBN 978-0-520-27794-6)
2013 
Leite P, Castañeda X, Ramirez T, Wallace S. Migration and Health: Mexican Immigrants in the U.S. Mexican Secretariat of the Interior Press (ISBN 978-607-427-208-6)
2012 
Castañeda X, Leiva M, Osorio L. English-Spanish Dictionary of Health Related Terms 4th Edition. HIA-SPH-UCB, COBBH, CDPH, BIDS, and Health Net. 2012, by the Regents of the University of California (ISBN 978-1-4675-0807-0)
2012 
Ramirez T, Castañeda X, et. al. Migration and Health: Young Mexican Immigrants in the US. CONAPO Press (ISBN 978-607-427-135-5)
2010 
Castañeda X, Leite P, Wallace S, Schenker M, Et al. Migration and Health: Mexican Immigrant Women in the U.S. CONAPO Press (ISBN 970-628-959-3)

White Papers and Occasional Paper Series

2014 
Castañeda X. Migration and Access to Health. Analysis and Projections Series. Mexico World Bioethics. (ISBN 978-607-460-452-8)
2011 
Castañeda X, Ruiz M. Caregivers in a Binational Context: The U.S – Mexico Case. United States Studies: Occasional Paper Series, Migration Policy Institute, 19-21.
2010 
Castañeda X, Alberro R. "Broaden the Scope Work of Promotoras: A Binational Opportunity" HIA, SPH

Policy Publications

2010 
Castañeda X, Schenker M, Felt E. Dangerous and Essential: Migration, Work, and Health (Policy Brief). HIA- SPH-UCB, and MAHRC-UCD. Presented at the Migration Policy Institute, Washington D.C.
2010 
Castañeda X, Ojeda G. Promotoras as Agents of Change in Public Health Emergencies (Policy Brief). SPH-UCB, HIA, CPAC. Presented at the Legislative Office Building in Sacramento, California

Health Policy Fact Sheets

2015 
Castañeda X, Díaz V, Nemeh M. "Gangs among Latinos in the U.S." HIA-SPH-UCB, MAHRC and UCGHI Copyright © 2015, UC Regents
2015 
Castañeda X, Díaz V, Nemeh M. "HIV/AIDS and Latinos in the U.S." HIA-SPH-UCB, MAHRC and UCGHI Copyright © 2015, UC Regents
2015 
Castañeda X, Díaz V, Nemeh M. "Occupational Health and Safety Among Latinos in the U.S." HIA-SPH-UCB, MAHRC and UCGHI Copyright © 2015, UC Regents
2015 
Castañeda X, Díaz V, Nemeh M. "Access to Health Care for Latinos in the United States" HIA-SPH-UCB, MAHRC and UCGHI Copyright © 2015, UC Regents
2015 
Castañeda X, Díaz V, Nemeh M. "Diabetes and Latinos in the U.S." HIA-SPH-UCB, MAHRC and UCGHI Copyright © 2015, UC Regents
2014 
Castañeda X, Chatzimpyros V, Nemeh M. "Autism and Latinos in the U.S." HIA-SPH-UCB, MAHRC and UCGHI Copyright © 2014, UC Regents
2014 
Castañeda X, Chatzimpyros V, Nemeh M. "Access to Health Care for Latinos in the U.S." HIA-SPH-UCB, MAHRC and UCGHI Copyright © 2014, UC Regents
2014 
Castañeda X, Chatzimpyros V, Nemeh M. "HIV/AIDS and Latinos in the U.S." HIA-SPH-UCB, MAHRC and UCGHI Copyright © 2014, UC Regents
2014 
Castañeda X, Chatzimpyros V, Nemeh M. "Diabetes and Latinos in the U.S." HIA-SPH-UCB, MAHRC and UCGHI Copyright © 2014, UC Regents
2014 
Castañeda X, Chatzimpyros V, Nemeh M. "Mental Health and Latinos in the U.S." HIA-SPH-UCB, MAHRC and UCGHI Copyright © 2014, UC Regents
2014 
Castañeda X, Chatzimpyros V, Dave P. "Unaccompanied Children in the U.S." HIA-SPH-UCB, MAHRC and UCGHI Copyright © 2014, UC Regents

Manuals, Supplements, and Instruction Booklets (Selected)

2014 
Guide with information regarding HIV and AIDS/Guia de VIH y SIDA. HIA Publication
2014 
Guide to Health Insurance/ Guia de Seguro Medico. HIA publication
2014 
Guide to Diabetes/Guia a Diabetes. HIA Publication

Policy Briefings and Legislative Educational Activities (Selected)

2015 
Improving the Health of Agricultural Workers and their Families in California. (Policy Briefing) MAHRC and HIA. Sacramento, California.
2014 
California Program on Access to Care (CPAC) and UCB- SPH. The Safety Net: County Responsibility in this Era of Health Care Reform. Berkeley, California

References

Xochitl Castañeda Wikipedia
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