The Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health will host a virtual discussion titled “It Could Make Us Sick: Mapping the Occupational Air Pollution Exposure Experienced by Farm Workers in Ohio” Tuesday, April 25, from 9 to 10 a.m.
A panel of presenters will discuss the occupational exposures and health impacts experienced by farm workers within Ohio, and highlight gaps in research, policy, and care access for this potentially vulnerable worker group.
The presenters will be:
- Maeve MacMurdo, staff physician at the Respiratory Institute at Cleveland Clinic, and director of the Occupational Lung Disease program;
- Karen Bolte Mulloy, associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine;
- Jacqueline Curtis, co-director of the GIS Health & Hazards Lab in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.