Dear Colleague:

On behalf of the Advisory Board of the Health Initiative of the Americas (formerly the California-Mexico Health Initiative), it gives us great pleasure to invite you to participate in the national launch of the Seventh Binational Health Week on October 14-16, 2007, in Los Angeles, California. Binational Health Week has become one of the largest mobilization efforts in the Americas to improve the health and well-being of underserved immigrants and migrants of Latin American origin.

 

Binational Health Week’s opening events will include a welcoming reception, an inaugural ceremony, and the “Binational Policy Forum on Migration and Health”. Key stakeholders and policymakers will convene to discuss immigrants’ health challenges and to explore collaborative, strategies to improve the health and well-being of this population. More than 400 high-level representatives from federal, state, and community entities of participating countries are slated to take part.

 

The activities are co-sponsored by the Governor and the Legislature of California, the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors of the City of Los Angeles, the Secretariats of Health and Foreign Affairs of Mexico, the Consulates of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia in California, the University of California, and the California Endowment in collaboration with other key institutions are endorsing this transnational effort.

 

We would be honored by your presence at this celebration and working forum. A profile of the event is enclosed. For event information and registration, please visit www.regonline.com/bhwforum. If you would like further information, please contact the Health Initiative of the Americas at (510) 643-4087 or via email to emerito.lopez@....

Please register by September 15, 2007.

 

Sincerely,

 

Wyatt R. Hume                                                 Mauricio Hernández Avila

Provost and Executive Vice President                Under-Secretary of Health in the area of

Academic and Health Affairs                             Disease Control and Prevention

University of California                                      Secretariat of Health

                                                                        Mexico

 

Enclosure: Forum Profile