Xochitl Castañeda

Castañeda was educated in Guatemala and Mexico as a medical anthropologist. She completed post-doctoral fellowships at UC San Francisco, Harvard University, and Amsterdam University.{{Cite web |date=2019-07-13 |title=Xóchitl Castañeda |url=https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/people/xochitl-castaneda#:~:text=A%20medical%20anthropologist%20by%20training,%20X%C3%B3chitl%20was%20educated%20in%20Guatemala,University%20and%20at%20Amsterdam%20University. |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=UC Berkeley Public Health |language=en-US}}

Castañeda served as Professor of Public Health Sciences and principal investigator at Mexico's National Institute of Public Health for seven years{{when|date=March 2025}} and also directed the Department of Reproductive Health.{{Cite web |title=Xóchitl Castañeda - UC Berkeley Public Health Faculty |url=https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/people/xochitl-castaneda/ |access-date=2023-02-10 |website=UC Berkeley Public Health |language=en-US}} Since 2008, she has served as a professor of migration and health at various University of California campuses.{{Cite web |title=Xóchitl Castañeda |url=https://www.calwellness.org/staff-and-board/xochitl-castaneda/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=The California Wellness Foundation |language=en}} In 2020, Castañeda 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.{{Cite web |title=ABOUT US |url=https://www.help-fund.net/about-us |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=Helpfund |language=en}}

In 2020, Castañeda received the Mexican National Award of Health in the "Sin Fronteras" (Without Borders) category, recognizing her lifetime contributions to improving the health of Mexicans living abroad.{{cite web |title=Xóchitl Castañeda wins Mexican National Award of Health |url=https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/news/xochitl-castaneda-wins-mexican-national-award-of-health/ |website=UC Berkeley School of Public Health |date=March 23, 2021 |access-date=May 4, 2025}}

Castañeda's body of work includes over 200 publications. She has consulted for more than 40 national and international institutions, contributed to the editorial board of 15 professional publications and presented her work at over 500 national and international conferences, symposiums, policy briefings, and other events.

• "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{{clarify|What is NIPH?|date=March 2022}}
• "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. [https://books.google.com/books?id=0IYkDQAAQBAJ&dq=Studying+Migrant+Populations,+General+Considerations+and+Approaches:+Migration+and+Health,+a+Research+Methods+Handbook&pg=PA12 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. [https://librosmexico.mx/libros/14746 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

• 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{{Cite web |title=Migration and Health: Mexican Immigrant Women in the U.S. |url=https://hiaucb.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/2010-en1.pdf}}
• Migration and Health: Young Mexican Immigrants in the US (2012) CONAPO Press{{Cite web |title=Migration and Health: Young Mexican Immigrants in the US |url=https://hiaucb.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/2012-en1.pdf}}
• English-Spanish Dictionary of Health Related Terms 4th Edition. (2012) Regents of the University of California{{Cite web |title=English-Spanish Dictionary of Health Related Terms 4th Edition. |url=https://hiaucb.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/dictionary-2011_english_pdf-version.pdf}}
• 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. [https://hiaucb.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/2016-bilingual.pdf 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. [https://hiaucb.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/conapo-report.pdf 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) [http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520277953 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. [http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/publications/Documents/PDF/migrationreport-oct2013.pdf Migration and Health: Mexican Immigrants in the U.S. Mexican] Secretariat of the Interior Press ({{ISBN|978-607-427-208-6}})

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• Health Initiative of the Americas. http://hia.berkeley.edu/index.php?page=xochitl-castaneda
• School of Public Health, UC Berkeley. http://sph.berkeley.edu/xochitl-castaneda
• The California Wellness Foundation http://www.calwellness.org/biographies/biography_board_castaneda.php

• [https://www.help-fund.net/about-us Health Education for Latinos Program website]

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