Shelley Davis: Public Health Advocate at the Service of the Farmworker

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• Personal Author:
  Baron, Sherry L. ; Liebman AK ; Ruiz V ; Steege, Andrea L.
• Description:
  Shelley Davis made important contributions to civil rights, public health, and social justice, but, above all, she was a tireless advocate at the service of farmworkers. Her farmworker advocacy work began with lawsuits to end massive wage abuses. For the next twenty years, primarily through her work at Farmworker Justice, Davis turned her attention to farmworker health and quickly became a leading authority on health and safety litigation and policy. She served on EPA's Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee advocating more stringent protections for children of farmworkers. She also became a member of EPA's Pesticide Program Dialogue Committee, which advises the EPA on pesticide program and policy issues. In addition to her work on the federal level, Davis collaborated with local communities to create innovative new training programs and legislation. Davis also developed training materials and guidance to protect farmworkers during avian influenza outbreaks. She was concerned both about farmworkers' potential to contract avian and other influenza strains from work as well as their increased vulnerability during any outbreaks because of immigration issues, substandard housing, lack of health coverage, and lack of economic resources. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Environmental Monitoring Hazardous Substances Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Public Health Race Factors Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Biohazards Children Exposure-assessment Exposure-methods Health-protection Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Protective-measures Public-health Racial-factors Risk-factors Surveillance-programs Training Work-environment Work-operations Work-practices Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  0090-0036
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Maryland ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  99
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20036079
• Citation:
  Am J Public Health 2009 Nov; 99(S3):S505-S507
• Contact Point Address:
  Sherry Baron, MD, MPH, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS R17, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Email:
  SBaron@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Public Health
• Supplement:
  S3
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ca03a5a3b8c0e942a81de4d6e68956f0db9a9746bb7b92065a49519efbc2496b07f5a69af489659fa99410553398af9968b18a9a8b270291a5490f03228ecfea
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187672/cdc_187672_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.23 MB ]