October 18, 2007 presentation by Enrique Rios Espinosa for the Stanford School of Medicine Medcast lecture series.

Dr. Enrique Rios Espinosa, Deputy Director for Migrant Health at the Ministry of Health in Mexico, discusses the goal of the program: to protect the health of migrants living in the United States through the design of specific binational strategies of health promotion and provision of culturally sensitive health care; Dr. Espinosa also had a large role in the Mexican Health Care Reform.

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