Work

Safe and Just Cleaners: Reducing Exposure to Toxic Cleaning Chemical Products Among Low Wage Immigrant Latino Community Members

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This project will assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being, employment status, and cleaning and disinfecting practices among Latinx domestic cleaners in the NYC metropolitan. It will then develop educational materials for a COVID-19 Domestic Cleaner Safe Return to Work Toolkit for domestic cleaners and clients based on survey findings.

Vale+Tu Salud: Corner-Based Randomized Trial to Test a Latino Day Laborer Program Adapted To Prevent COVID-19

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Based on the injury risk-reduction program Vales+Tu (You Are Worth More) that has been successfully tested among Latino Day Laborers, the Vale+Tu Salud (Your Health is Worth More) study will adapt its evidence-based strategies to promote group problem solving and a plan to implement together COVID-19 mitigation strategies

COVID-19 Pandemic Among Low-Income Latino Families in an Agricultural Community: Financial, Occupational, and Mental and Physical Health Sequelae

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This project aims to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic primarily on farmworker families that have been exposed to the health sequelae of pesticide exposure over the life course from in utero to adulthood.