Office of Border Health
New Mexico Department of Health - Division of Policy and Performance
U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission
The U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission (U.S.M.B.H.C.) was created in July 2000 with the signing of an agreement by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Health of Mexico for, as authorized by the 1994 U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission Act, Public Law 103-400, that encouraged the President to conclude an agreement with Mexico.
The Commission is comprised of a U.S. Section and a Mexican Section and is composed of twenty-six members, including the Secretaries of Health of both countries. The Commission has outreach offices in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
New Mexico Commission Members
Alfredo Vigil, M.D.
Secretary
New Mexico Department of Health
Runnels Building
P.O. Box 26110
Santa Fe, NM 87502-6110
1190 St. Francis Drive, Rm. N4100
Santa Fe, NM 87502
Tel. (505) 827-2951 / Fax (505) 827-2530
alfredo.vigil@state.nm.us
Bruce D. San Filippo, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer
Memorial Medical Center
2450 S. Telshor Blvd.
Las Cruces, NM 88011-5076
Tel. (575) 521-2218 / Fax (575) 521-5450
bruce.sanfilippo@lpnt.net
Dr. Sam Howarth
(Delegate for Alfredo Vigil)
Director, Office of Policy and Multicultural Health
New Mexico Department of Health
1190 St. Francis Dr. - S4205
Santa Fe, NM 87504
(505) 827-2280 / Fax (505) 827-2942
sam.howarth@state.nm.us