Farm Workers, Public Health, and Community Research
A CONVERSATION WITH ÉRICA CHAVEZ SANTOS 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific) Hosted on Zoom: Register Here for Link Join the Bridges Center on Thursday, August 18th for a special conversation with University of Washington Ph.D. student and public health researcher Érica Chavez Santos. Érica's ongoing research focuses on how policies impact the health of agricultural workers. This is a personal subject to Érica, as her parents were farmworkers, and she also worked in the orchards when she was younger. Érica is passionate about her research and her work's role in improving current policy and creating more inclusive labor and social determinant policies and laws for farmworkers and other low-wage workers. Érica will speak with the Harry Bridges Center's Research Coordinator, Rachel Erstad, about her ongoing and recent research, and how community-based participatory research, that is equitably and accessibly distributed, can address health disparities. ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Érica Chavez Santos is a Ph.D. student in Health Systems and Population Health at the University of Washington with an emphasis in Occupational Health Services Research.
Her area of interest is community-based participatory research and mixed methods, specifically addressing Latinx health disparities. Her recent research includes supporting the Heat Education and Awareness Tools (HEAT) study - which focused on preventing heat-related illnesses in agricultural workers and working with the Department of Labor and Industries Safety & Health Assessment for Research and Prevention (SHARP) study to identify injury risk factors among janitors. Érica received a Washington State Labor Research Grant (WSLRG) through the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies for the 2022-2023 academic year for her proposal "Examining the association of labor and social determinant related policies on workplace safety and chronic health indicators among agricultural workers", and received the LERA-Bassett Scholarship in Labor Relations from the Bridges Center in 2019. Érica completed her Bachelor's in Biology and Public Health at UW and a Masters of Public Health in Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. QUESTIONS? For more information about this event, contact the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies at hbcls@uw.edu |