Levi Vonk has just been named a Guerrant Global Health Equity Professor by the Center for Global Health Equity. As a Guerrant Professor, he will receive funding to carry out a three-year long medical anthropology research project on Central American migrant health disparities in Mexico. Levi is particularly excited because this funding allows him to assemble a team of undergraduate and graduate student researchers at UVA as well, who will spend three summers in Mexico analyzing the impact of border externalization and militarization policies on migrant populations attempting to integrate into the country. Of particular importance will be investigating how a new visa invented in Mexico theoretically to aid ill and injured migrants—known as a “humanitarian visa” (visa humanitaria)—often actually bars them from receiving the medical care necessary for their recuperation, thereby restricting medical parity even as the visa seemingly promotes it.