# Xochitl Castañeda

Xochitl Castaneda is the founding director of the Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA) at the School of Public Health, University of California (UC) Berkeley.

## Education

A medical anthropologist, Xochitl was educated in Guatemala and Mexico. She completed post-doctoral fellowships at UC San Francisco, Harvard University, and Amsterdam University.

## Career

Xochitl Castañeda served as Professor of Public Health Sciences and a Principal Investigator at Mexico’s National Institute of Public Health for seven years and has also directed the Department of Reproductive Health.
Since 2008, she has served as a professor in Migration and Health at various University of California campuses.
In 2020, Xochitl founded the Health Education for Latinos Program (HELP), a fund that provides annual graduate and undergraduate scholarships to low-income Latino students pursuing careers in health.

## Publications

Xochitl has over 200 publications and has served as a consultant for more than 40 national and international institutions. She has contributed to the editorial board to 15 professional publications. She has presented her academic and advocacy work in over 500 national and international conferences, symposiums, policy briefings, and other events.

### Book chapters

* "Meanings and Signifiers of Fertility: The Use of Qualitative Methodology in Public Health" In Qualitative Methods in Public Health Research (1995) Public Health Perspectives No. 20, Nigeda G. & Langer A. (Eds) NIPH
* "Migration and the body: Mexican women working in agriculture in California" In Compartiendo historias de frontera: cuerpos, géneros, generaciones y salud (2004)
* "Binational Innovation in Latino Immigrant Health: the Health Initiative of the Americas" In Reflections about Mexican Migration and Public Policy (2010) CONAPO Press
* "Binational Health Week: A Social Mobilization Program to Improve Latino Migrant Health" in Accountability Across Borders: Migrant Rights in North America (2019) University of Texas Press

#### 2018

    Castañeda X, Juan Pablo (Editor), National Council of University Students. Migration of Mexicans to the United States. Human Rights and Development. Volume 20 in the collection Mexico 2018-2024. (ISBN 978-607-711-474-1)

#### 2014

    Castañeda X, Rodriguez-Lainz A. Studying Migrant Populations, General Considerations and Approaches: Migration and Health, a Research Methods Handbook. University of California Press. (ISBN 978-0-520-27795-3)

#### 2013

    Castañeda X, Felt E, Martinez-Taboada C, Castañeda N, Ramirez T. Migratory Stress and Mental Health in Adolescent Young Adult Mexican Immigrants Living in the United States: Contextualizing Acculturation. In Immigrants: Acculturation, Socioeconomic Challenges and Cultural Psychology. Judy Ho (Ed), Nova Science Publishers. (ISBN 978-1-62808-617-1)

#### 2013

    Castañeda X, Zavella P. Las fronteras y los espacios del cuerpo: sexualidad, riesgo y vulnerabilidad en mujeres migrantes mexicanas en California. Ellas se van: Mujeres migrantes en Estados Unidos y España. México: Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, UNAM Press. (ISBN 978-607-02-4355-4)

#### 2011

    Castañeda X, Ruiz M, Felt E, Schenker M. Health of Migrants: Working Towards a Better Future. In Global Health, Global Health Education, and Infectious Disease: The New Millennium, Part 1. Veljil A. Moellering R. (Eds.) Elsevier Press

### Books

* Health Care During Pregnancy and Birth in Rural Areas (1989) Inter-American Social Security Studies Center Press, Mexico.
* Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States: Health Care Access (2006) CONAPO Press
* Migration and Health: Mexican Immigrant Women in the U.S. (2010) CONAPO Press
* Migration and Health: Young Mexican Immigrants in the US (2012) CONAPO Press
* English-Spanish Dictionary of Health Related Terms 4th Edition. (2012) Regents of the University of California
* Migration and Health: Reflections and challenges about the health of migrants (2017) CONAPO-HIA-UCB-SPH
* Migration and Health: Current challenges and opportunities (2020) National Population Council (CONAPO), HIA-UCB-SPH

#### 2016

    Castaneda X, Bermúdez J, Reyes A, Wallace S. Migration and Health Perspectives on the immigrant population. Mexican Secretariat of the Interior Press (ISBN 978-607-427-278-9)

#### 2015

    Bermúdez J, Reyes A, Schenker M, Castaneda X, Felt E, Wallace S. Migration and Health. Profile of Latin Americans in the United States. Mexican Secretariat of the Interior Press (ISBN 978-607-427-265-9)

#### 2014

    Schenker M, Castaneda X, Rodriguez A. (Editors) Migration and Health Research Methodologies: a handbook for the study of migrant populations in the 21st Century. UC Press (ISBN 978-0-520-27794-6)

#### 2013

    Leite P, Castañeda X, Ramirez T, Wallace S. Migration and Health: Mexican Immigrants in the U.S. Mexican Secretariat of the Interior Press (ISBN 978-607-427-208-6)