Binational Collaboration and Immigrant Health: Bridging Systems, Communities, and Evidence Across the U.S.-Mexico Corridor

This Research Topic focuses on binational collaboration and immigrant health within the Mexico-U.S. migration corridor, one of the largest and most enduring migration systems globally. Human mobility between the two countries has produced profound interconnectedness among economies, communities, and health systems, while simultaneously exposing significant structural inequities in healthcare access and delivery. Immigrant populations often navigate fragmented and asymmetrical healthcare systems shaped by differences in policy, financing, legal status, and institutional capacity. This research area examines how governments, health systems, academic institutions, and community organizations can collaborate across borders to address shared public health challenges. The Research Topic seeks to advance evidence-based solutions related to health equity, chronic disease prevention, mental health, reproductive health, public health diplomacy, and transnational care coordination. Amid intensifying immigration enforcement and rapidly shifting federal health policies on both sides of the border, the need for evidence-based, cross-border public health frameworks has never been more urgent.The objective of this Research Topic is to examine how binational collaboration between Mexico and the United States can address the complex health challenges associated with human mobility and immigrant populations. The Research Topic seeks to identify structural barriers created by these asymmetrical healthcare systems while highlighting innovative research, policies, and community-based interventions that improve access to care, continuity of services, and health equity across borders. Through interdisciplinary scholarship and applied research, the Research Topic will advance evidence-based solutions that strengthen public health coordination, promote immigrant-inclusive policies, and foster sustainable cross-border partnerships among governments, academic institutions, healthcare systems, and community organizations.All submissions must address topics related to the migration process between Mexico and the United States, including cross-country comparisons or collaborations. Studies focusing exclusively on one country or region without addressing the migrant population between the two countries will not be considered. Topics of interest include, but not limited to:• Governance and Policy: Binational governance and public health diplomacy; health policy and immigrant-inclusive systems• Health Systems and Access: Health systems fragmentation and access to care for immigrant populations; evaluation of transnational health programs/initiatives• Community-Based Approaches: Community health worker and promotor(a) models; leadership development and capacity building for binational health equity• Mental and Reproductive Health: Mental health and psychosocial impacts of migration and displacement; maternal and reproductive health among migrant populations• Disease Burden and Environmental Health: Chronic disease prevention and management in transnational communities; border health and environmental health disparities• Research Infrastructure and Social Determinants: Data sharing, surveillance, and cross-border research collaborations; structural determinants of health, discrimination, and social vulnerabilityThe Research Topic will emphasize applied and policy-relevant scholarship that bridges research, practice, and implementation across the U.S. and Mexico. Contributions may include empirical research articles, policy analyses, mixed-methods studies, implementation science, community-based participatory research, program evaluations, and conceptual or theoretical papers. Topic editors: Cecilia B. Rosales, Sheila Soto, Maria Gudelia Rangel Gomez, Rodolfo Cruz-Piñeiro, Rafael Alonso Hernández-López Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/82683/binational-collaboration-and-immigrant-health-bridging-systems-communities-and-evidence-across-the-us-mexico-corridor