Students will live and study along the border for one month. Physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals need to understand these issues in order to become environmental stewards for their communities. Students will learn from a series of instructors who are health professionals, industrial hygienists, sanitarians and community leaders from Laredo and its sister city in Mexico, Nuevo Laredo. The course will cover issues of air and water quality, public health, and health-care delivery, and take place at sites in both cities. Students will visit maquiladoras, colonias, clinics and pharmacies.
Enrollment is limited to six students per month.