Biography
Sherry Baron MD, MPH is an occupational physician and Professor at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Queens College, and an affiliate Professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Previously, she spent 25 years as a researcher at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC where she was the coordinator of the Occupational Health Equity program.
Her research focuses on employment as a social determinant of health with a concentration on how employment quality, combined with workplace exposures, contributes to structural health inequities. Her current research includes Safe and Just Cleaners, a NIH-funded Research to Action project which applies a community-based participatory research approach for collecting data on Latinx household cleaners’ chemical exposures and other working conditions in the NYC metropolitan area. She is also the U.S. Principal Investigator for a 6-country study of non-standard and precarious employment based at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Through that study, her team collected qualitative data about workers experiences in nonstandard employment in the NYC metropolitan area and is comparing their findings to data collected from workers in five other countries with different labor policies and social welfare systems including Sweden, Belgium, Spain, Canada, and Chile.