Office of Border Health

Infectious Disease Surveillance

The Office of Border Health collaborates with the Department of Health’s Epidemiology and Response Division/Infectious Disease Epidemiology Bureau to catalyze disease surveillance and reporting activities with local and state health authorities in West Texas, Chihuahua State Health Services, and with non-government healthcare services providers operating in New Mexico’s border counties. These activities have included:

• Border Infectious Disease Surveillance (BIDS) 
  
  
• Early Warning Infectious Disease Surveillance (EWIDS)
  
  

• BIDS & EWIDS Summary of Activities
  
  

• Training of Infectious Disease Control Practitioners on the Epidemiology and Investigation of Binational Infectious Disease Cases
  
  
• Seasonal INFLUENZA Information, H1N1 Resources, NM Influenza Surveillance Reports and more
  
  

• Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) For New Mexico and Border Clinicians CME Training May 24, 2010

• U.S.-Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity Survey: Final Report
  
  
• A Survey Assessment of Notifiable Condition Reporting, Health Care Services and Medical Case Management of Binational Inmates in New Mexico Border County Detention Facilities and Select Border Impact Area Detention Facilities
  
  
  

• State and Community Health Data Resources

  • New Mexico Indicator-Based Information System for Public Health (NM-IBIS)

       New Mexico Health Data





U.S.-Mexico Border Influenza Surveillance Network Surveillance Site Map