Dr. Cecilia Rosales
Appointed by U.S. President Bush to the
U.S.-Mexico Border Health
Commission
Feb. 28, 2006
From: Vicki B. Gaubeca,
(520) 626-7229 or 981-2076
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U.S. President
George W. Bush appointed Cecilia
Rosales, MD, MS,
associate professor in the Community, Environmental and Policy division at
The University of Arizona Mel and Enid
Zuckerman College of Public Health to the United States Section
of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission. Dr. Rosales, who joined the College
last fall, will be offering courses that probe public health policy issues
on the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to joining the College, she was chief of
the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Office of Border Health,
where she earned a reputation for possessing an in-depth familiarity with
border health issues. "It is an exceptional honor to have
Dr. Rosales appointed to this position. We recruited her to our college to
strengthen our U.S.-Mexico border health programs. This appointment
demonstrates her national leadership in this critical area of public
health," stated G. Marie Swanson, PhD,
MPH, dean at the UA Zuckerman College of Public Health. "The
success of the Office of Border Health is a prime example of her talent
for bringing diverse groups of people together to build consensus, shared
vision, and understanding of public health
issues." |
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Dr. Rosales has been active in numerous
programs, including the "Healthy Gente/Healthy Border 2010 Initiative," which
articulates a health-promotion and disease-prevention agenda for U.S.-Mexico
border communities.
Dr. Rosales earned her medical degree in
1987 from the Universidad Autónoma de
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Established by the
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The United
States-Mexico Border Health Commission (USMBHC or Commission) was created as a
binational health commission in July 2000 to provide international leadership to
optimize health and quality of life along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Commission
is comprised of the federal secretaries of health, the chief health officers of
the 10
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