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Challenges in Transit Migration: Ethnographic Insights into Human Trafficking, Violence, and HIV

  • Research team: Primary investigator Higinio Fernández-Sánchez, PhD, RN
  • Overview: The project aims to develop a data-driven framework for targeted HIV-prevention interventions that consider cultural and technological factors through in-depth interviews and participant observations at shelters along four key migration routes through Mexico.
  • Funding sponsor: Office of Global Health Initiatives at UTHealth Houston
  • Project period: 1, 2024-Aug. 31, 2025
  • Budget: $11,500