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Perceptions of housing conditions among migrant farmworkers and their families: implications for health, safety and social policy
qualifications: PhD
contribution: literature review, wrote the first draft, qualitative analysis
position: Assistant professor
United States
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia School of Nursing, USA
qualifications: PhD
contribution: contributed to drafts, collected data, qualitative analysis
position: Instructor
United States
I am an applied anthropologist. My most recent work focuses on occupational health and safety and health education among conventional farmworkers and sustainable farmers in Illinois and North Carolina. I am also interested in the practice of community based participatory research.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, collected data, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts
position: Professor
Researcher in rural and minority health. Emphasis on aging, nutrition, and occupational health in the US.
qualifications: PhD
contribution: original concept, designed the project, devised survey tool, collected data, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts, qualitative analysis
position: Professor & Vice-chair research
United States
Thomas A. Arcury, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Director of the Center for Worker Health, Wake Forest School of Medicine. He is a cultural anthropologist and public health scientist with a research program focused on improving health in rural and minority communities. He collaborates in a program of community-based participatory research with immigrant farmworkers, poultry processing workers, and construction workers focused on occupational and environmental health and justice. He also collaborates on research focused on the health self-management and health services utilization of rural older adults.
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