Latest Public Health Threats to Migrants at the US Southern Border

Affiliations

¹ Joseph Nwadiuko is with the Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Sural Shah is with the Division of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles and the Division of Primary Care, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.

Editorial

Joseph Nwadiuko et al. Am J Public Health. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;110(6):798-800.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305639.

¹ Joseph Nwadiuko is with the Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Sural Shah is with the Division of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, University of California, Los Angeles and the Division of Primary Care, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.

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