Dr. Antonio L. Estrada This is Me

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1. 1. www.asbmb.org

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   Published on: 8/19/2007   Last Visited: 8/19/2007

   ANTONIO ESTRADA, Director of Mexican American Studies and Research Center and Professor of Public Health in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at The University of Arizona, Tucson, will discuss the institutional, financial, and social obstacles to reduce HIV and HCV infection in minority communities.

2. 2. Campus Briefs - Wednesday July 17, 2002 - The Arizona Summer Wildcat

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   Published on: 8/22/2002   Last Visited: 8/22/2002

   Antonio Estrada was named the new permanent director of the Mexican-American Studies and Research Center on July 9.
   
   Estrada has worked at UA since 1986. He is a professor with a doctorate in public health, and has served as the associate director of the Mexican-American Studies and Research Center and chair of the Mexican-American studies graduate program.
   
   He has won many awards for community service and for teaching, including the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences' distinguished teaching award. Estrada also has several grants from the National Institutes of Health for his studies of cultural and behavioral aspects of HIV/AIDS, as well as on Hispanic public health issues.
   
   "Dr. Estrada is highly committed to strengthening the instructional, outreach, and research missions of the Mexican-American Studies and Research Center, especially in the focus areas of culture and history, public policy, and Latino health," said interim dean of SBS Diana Liverman.
   
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3. 3. www.tucsoncitizen.com

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   Published on: 2/28/2008   Last Visited: 2/28/2008

   Half the county's population will be Hispanic by 2015, according to Antonio Estrada, director of the University of Arizona's Mexican American Studies and Research Center . Estrada will present some findings of his report, "At the Crossroads: The Hispanic Population in Arizona and Pima County" at the town hall. Estrada's report recommends increased access to quality health care and elimination of "heath disparities" among Hispanics. His findings are based on 2006 data and include data supplied by the Pima County Health Department. The study says 50 percent of central Tucson is Hispanic and 42 percent of children under 12 in those families live in poverty. The median household income is $22,500 According to Estrada, statewide pregnancy rates among Hispanics ages 10 to 19 were three times higher in 2005 than for whites in the same age range. The rate for white, non-Hispanics was 15.8 pregnancies per 1,000. For Hispanics, it was 55.5 per 1,000 . He also said the rate of deaths from hypertension, or high blood pressure, in Hispanics in Arizona in 2005 was twice that of whites - 13.2 per 100,000 compared with 5.9 per 100,000. Rates of HIV and AIDS among Hispanics statewide in the same year were a third higher in Hispanics compared with whites. Estrada's study also points out the gap in the number of undergraduate college degrees awarded to Hispanics compared with whites is growing. In Arizona from 2003 to 2004, Hispanics earned 10.3 percent of bachelor's degrees. Whites earned63.6 percent of them. Estrada's study notes that 54 percent of Tucson Unified School District students in the 2005-06 school year were Hispanic and that the high school dropout rate for Hispanics was nearly double that of whites. In his study, Estrada asks the Tucson Hispanic Coalition to: • Create a task force to make recommendations to increase small-business opportunities for Hispanics • Find ways to work with the University of Arizona and Pima Community College to create training programs in agriculture, biotechnology and health care for Hispanics • Identify "stellar" training programs for Hispanic adolescents and adults "that enhance their opportunities to succeed and contribute to our state's economy." Estrada also suggests the coalition form a task force to find ways to "enhance the academic success of Hispanic students," especially those "deemed high-risk."
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   • Details: The event features speaker Antonio Estrada of the University of Arizona's Mexican American Studies and Research Center . It is sponsored by the University of Phoenix and organized by the Tucson Hispanic Coalition.