Marc Schenker is Associate Vice Provost for Outreach and Engagement in the office of University Outreach and International Programs and Professor of Public Health Sciences and Medicine, University of California, Davis. He is founding director of the Migration and Health Research Center, Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety, and program director for Public Health Sciences at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health.
He is codirector of the Migration and Health Center of Expertise. University of California Global Health Institute. Xochitl Castaneda has been the director of Health Initiative of the Americas at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, since 2001. A medical anthropologist by training, she was educated in Guatemala and Mexico. In 2010 the California Latino Legislative Caucus honored her with the National Spirit Award for her leadership in initiatives to improve the quality of life for Latino immigrants in the US.
Castaneda has published over 120 manuscripts and has served as a consultant for more than 30 national and international institutions. Alfonso Rodriguez-Lainz is a senior fellow at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. Prior to joining the CDC, Dr. Rodriguez was the senior epidemiologist for the California Office of Binational Border Health, California Department of Public Health.
He has extensive experience in coordinating cross-border surveillance and public health projects between California, Mexico, and Latin America.