Wake Forest University Farmworker Studies
Dates:
May 12 - 19, 2008
Price:
NA
Program Coordinator:
Thomas A. Arcury
Address:
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1084
Telephone:
1-336-716-9438
Fax:
1-336-716-3206
E-mail:
tarcury@wfubmc.edu
Preferred method of contact:
email
Program Description:
This program will focus on the health and justice of farmworkers in the United States. Papers and discussion at this conference will serve as the basis of an edited volume examining the occupational and environmental health of Latino farmworkers in the eastern United States. Participants will draw on a 10 years community-based participatory research program. The presentations will address important issues of farmworker occupational and environmental health. These include housing and workplace safety and sanitation, pesticide exposure, green tobacco sickness, occupational injuries including transportation, and infectious diseases, particularly TB and HIV/AIDS. Each presentation will emphasize shortcomings of current regulation and enforcement, and the process of achieving justice.
Coordinator Biography:
Thomas A. Arcury, Ph.D., is Professor and Research Director in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He received his PhD in Anthropology in 1983 from the University of Kentucky. Arcury is a medical anthropologist and public health scientists with a research program focused on improving the health of rural and minority populations. Since 1996, he has directed a program of research on occupational and environmental health and justice among the families of immigrant workers in rural communities.