César Rodriguez

NextGen Scholar

PhD candidate of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center

César is a PhD candidate of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Since 2010, he has been involved in research focused on migration and health. Specifically, he has been conducting research on transit migration and access to health services.

He has collaborated in multicentric and nationwide projects in Mexico and Latin America. His collaboration with colleagues from the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico, the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, and other national and international institutions has resulted in the creation of the Advisory Group in Migration and Health (GAMyS in Spanish). Its main objectives are 1) to conduct original and innovative research, 2) to provide advice to civil society organizations and decision-makers, and 3) to impact the creation of inclusive migration and health policies in Mexico and elsewhere.

His current PhD project is focused on identifying opportunities for the Mexican health system to ease in-transit migrants’ process of access to governmental health services. He has several publications in peer-reviewed journals and has participated in conference presentations in the area of public health. He was recently appointed as a next-generation researcher in the newly created CHH-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Displacement.