In the wake of the pandemic, a restored U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission endowed with greater funding and a firm binational commitment to strengthened cooperation on border health could be an even greater asset than it has been in the past.
A view from U.S. side of the border wall in Nogales, Ariz., in November 2017. (Peg Hunter / Flickr)
This post originally appeared on the Health Affairs Blog on July 30, 2021.
If ever a spotlight was put on the need for collaboration and a coordinated U.S. and Mexican response to the shared health vulnerabilities along the U.S.-Mexico border, the past year and a half of COVID-19’s scourge of border communities is it.