REACH - Research Network for Health and Society

12/18/2025

REACH is contributing to a Spanish-language conference to be held March 23-24, 2026, in Madrid, Spain, on the topic of “Chemsex and Social Science: Contexts, Experiences, and Community Perspectives”. While the primary language is Spanish, the organizing committee is open to English contributions. See the abstract submission link here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffsXtHmcL2Hqko7eNY7nZkgEKAbP-xY508cdFqDDqyEtGNPQ/viewform.

REACH colabora en una conferencia en español que se celebrará del 23 al 24 de marzo de 2026 en Madrid, España, sobre el tema "Chemsex y ciencias sociales: contextos, experiencias y perspectivas comunitarias". Si bien el idioma principal es el español, el comité organizador acepta contribuciones en inglés. Consulte el enlace para el envío de resúmenes aquí:

23 y 24 de marzo del 2026 – Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (España) Estas jornadas internacionales reunirán a personal investigador, profesionales de la salud, activistas, organizaciones comunitarias y personas con experiencia vivida para analiza...

10/28/2025

We are pleased to share a video developed by REACH on a PhotoVoice project called "The Day-to-Day of Addiction," which documents the lived experiences of people struggling with addiction who attended an Overdose Prevention Center in New York City called OnPoint NYC. You can read more about OnPoint here: https://www.facebook.com/NYHarmReduction/. Hear the reactions of health researchers to the gallery during the National Hispanic Science Network conference at University of Miami.

The video highlights the responses of health researchers to a community-based PhotoVoice exhibition created by people struggling with addiction in New York C...

01/23/2025

We are pleased to announce the opening of our REACH page on Bluesky! As many colleagues are transitioning to this alternative platform, we want to ensure that we reach you. Many of our FB posts will be mirrored there, and additional content will be shared. Please find us there at -fiu.bsky.social. The REACH team. https://bsky.app/profile/reach-fiu.bsky.social

09/19/2024

One of our recent publications, "One Leaving: Coloniality and Physician Migration in Puerto Rico" made the news today.

News report via the link and the paper can be accessed here:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37058878/

Especial para CLARIDAD “Tenía un tumor canceroso en el cerebro… Después de mi operación, visitaba a mi neurocirujano todos los años. El año pasado, cuando fui a recibir más tratamiento debido a los síntomas recurrentes, simplemente se había ido”, dijo Teresa, una mujer de Aguada pacien...

08/30/2024

Our film "The Bee: A Reflection on Women, Land, and Occupation" is now an official selection at the Puerto Rico Film Festival!! Many thanks to the festival and to La Colmena Cimarrona for their inspiring work!!

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FIU Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

08/06/2024

Our film "The Bee" is now an official selection at the Film & Media Festival hosted by the Society for Visual Anthropology. They will host a Q&A session with our producer Dr. Mark Padilla as part of the upcoming conference of the American Anthropological Association to be held in Tampa during November. See you there!

REACH - Research Network for Health and Society
La Colmena Cimarrona
FIU Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

07/10/2024

Our latest publication on Puerto Rican physician migration is out now via Health Policy Open.

"Puerto Rican Physician’s Recommendations to Mitigate Medical Migration from Puerto Rico to the Mainland United States."

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Download Citation | On Jul 1, 2024, Santiago-Santiago Adrián J. and others published Puerto Rican physician’s recommendations to mitigate medical migration from Puerto Rico to the mainland United States | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

05/22/2024

"The Bee" has just received the "Environmental, Social, Political Justice Award" from the Latino and Native American Film Festival, LANAFF. Many thanks to the festival for this incredible honor!

La Colmena Cimarrona
REACH - Research Network for Health and Society
FIU Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

04/21/2024

“They think we wear loincloths”: Spatial stigma, coloniality, and physician migration in Puerto Rico.

Our latest publication is out now via Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Many thanks to the REACH - Research Network for Health and Society team for all the hard work!

Puerto Rico (PR) is facing an unprecedented healthcare crisis due to accelerating migration of physicians to the mainland United States (US), leaving residents with diminishing healthcare and excessi...

01/29/2024

Our team's newest publication, "On Staying: Non-migration among Puerto Rican Physicians," is now published in the migration journal, "Crossings".

Since 2000, an exodus of Puerto Ricans leaving the island has reduced the local population by almost 20 per cent. One of the migratory waves of greatest concern is that of physicians due to its potential impact on Puerto Rico’s (PR) public health. Strategies to curtail their migration have overloo...

04/12/2023

Our latest publication is out now.

Puerto Rico (PR) has a growing physician migration problem. As of 2009, the medical workforce was composed of 14,500 physicians and by 2020 the number…

04/10/2023

Thanks to all of the FIU faculty and students who elevated the discussion at our screening today of our new documentary film La Oreja! And thanks especially to Jose Santini, our special guest and visionary leader of Salud y Acupuntura para el Pueblo (SAPP)!