Reproductive Health Surveillance in the US-Mexico Border Region: Beyond the Border (and Into the Future)

This issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) celebrates the completion of a highly innovative and bold reproductive health surveillance initiative: the Brownsville-Matamoros Sister City Project for Women’s Health (BMSCP). This project, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and made possible through binational institutional collaboration, met the challenge of obtaining comparable reproductive health data on both sides of the US-Mexico border to examine the unique reproductive health challenges found in the border region. Heretofore, no such reproductive health data or mechanism to obtain such data existed or was even thought possible. As the articles and editorials in this issue indicate, the BMSCP has been successful.