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Farmworker Community Health Vulnerabilities and Responses Amid Climate Change

With funding from the state of California for Climate Action, Matt's most recent work addresses "Farmworker Community Health Vulnerabilities and Responses Amid Climate Change." This is a large collaborative project involving the work of 10 community-based organizations and over 20 faculty colleagues from UCSC, UC Riverside, UC Berkeley and UCSF, as well as students from the Global and Community Health program at UCSC. Together we are working to address the ways in which the vectors of vulnerability tied to climate change (extreme heat, drought, floods, air pollution, water pollution and new pests and pesticide exposures) compound pre-existing social, economic and political vulnerabilities. We are creating a data-sharing dashboard about these intersecting vulnerabilities and also developing a set of response tools for promotores (community-health workers) that provide resources on the risks, rights and re-training opportunities available to farmworkers. For more on this project please visit our project website.