Healthy Border 2010

• A program that facilitates and supports community-based solutions for health promotion, disease prevention, and increases access to health services. This program identifies some of the most significant preventable threats to health along the U.S.-Mexico border, and establishes goals to reduce those threats.

• An air monitoring project in the Columbus, New Mexico/Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua area that enables us to gather baseline data for air quality on levels of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5). The goal of the project is to begin to paint a more complete picture on the health of the environment for these two border towns and to eventually link air quality data with respiratory illness in the region.