Are you conducting research?

April 16, 2002

The n Samora Institute has a database similar to the one you are proposing. Sincerely,

Dear Egroup Members: Please forward information about research you are conducting on behalf of farmworkers or research that may benefit farmworkers. A spread sheet with this information has been started but it is woefully slim. Surely there is more going on out there. Please do not assume that we already know what you are doing. No project is too small. If you are interviewing farmworkers we want to know about it. The benefits of having this information in one place will be great for future research. I will publish the spread sheet I have in the near future but I would like to have more information in it before doing so. Please provide us with the following information

Name of your organization Name of Project Officer or contact person Phone number/email address Brief description of the project

Thanks for your assistance. Joni Berardino

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April 16, 2002

Hi! Joni,

Is this only for ongoing projects. We just finished a project last June and turned in an abstract for the industrial hygiene conference in San Diego and for the SOEH Pesticide conference in D.C.It was a rural farmworker study in India.I would be more than happy to share this with the group.

Preethi Rao

University of Cincinnati

Ohio

Joni Berardino <jonib@...> wrote:

Dear Egroup Members: Please forward information about research you are conducting on behalf of farmworkers or research that may benefit farmworkers. A spread sheet with this information has been started but it is woefully slim. Surely there is more going on out there. Please do not assume that we already know what you are doing. No project is too small. If you are interviewing farmworkers we want to know about it. The benefits of having this information in one place will be great for future research. I will publish the spread sheet I have in the near future but I would like to have more information in it before doing so. Please provide us with the following information

Name of your organization

Name of Project Officer or contact person

Phone number/email address

Brief description of the project

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April 16, 2002

Joni:

I work for the University of KY and we have a grant to offer agricultural health

and safety information into nursing curricula in 13 southeast states. We have

sent a survey to all nursing schools. This curricula will have a component that

addresses migrant health.

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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:03:14 -0500

Subject: [ ] Are you conducting research?

Dear Egroup Members: Please forward information about research you are

conducting on behalf of farmworkers or research that may benefit farmworkers. A

spread sheet with this information has been started but it is woefully slim.

Surely there is more going on out there. Please do not assume that we already

know what you are doing. No project is too small. If you are interviewing

farmworkers we want to know about it. The benefits of having this information

in one place will be great for future research. I will publish the spread sheet

I have in the near future but I would like to have more information in it before

doing so. Please provide us with the following information

Name of your organization

Name of Project Officer or contact person

Phone number/email address

Brief description of the project

Thanks for your assistance. Joni Berardino

April 16, 2002

Dear : Thanks for letting me know. Can you provide me with a phone number so I can call you about this. I don't want to duplicate work. Thanks Joni Berardino

-----Original Message-----From: Azevedo <k_azevedo@...> < >Date: Monday, April 15, 2002 6:38 PMSubject: Re: [ ] Are you conducting research?

The n Samora Institute has a database similar to the one you are proposing. Sincerely,

Dear Egroup Members: Please forward information about research you are conducting on behalf of farmworkers or research that may benefit farmworkers. A spread sheet with this information has been started but it is woefully slim. Surely there is more going on out there. Please do not assume that we already know what you are doing. No project is too small. If you are interviewing farmworkers we want to know about it. The benefits of having this information in one place will be great for future research. I will publish the spread sheet I have in the near future but I would like to have more information in it before doing so. Please provide us with the following information

Name of your organization Name of Project Officer or contact person Phone number/email address Brief description of the project

Thanks for your assistance. Joni Berardino

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April 16, 2002

Dear Preethi: Thanks so much for your response. Can't speak for the group but I would love to list your work in the database. Also, is there a write up that can be shared with the resource center? Thanks, Joni Berardin

-----Original Message-----From: preethi rao <pclakshmi@...> < >Date: Monday, April 15, 2002 7:09 PMSubject: Re: [ ] Are you conducting research?

Hi! Joni, Is this only for ongoing projects. We just finished a project last June and turned in an abstract for the industrial hygiene conference in San Diego and for the SOEH Pesticide conference in D.C.It was a rural farmworker study in India.I would be more than happy to share this with the group. Preethi Rao University of Cincinnati Ohio Joni Berardino <jonib@...> wrote:

Dear Egroup Members: Please forward information about research you are conducting on behalf of farmworkers or research that may benefit farmworkers. A spread sheet with this information has been started but it is woefully slim. Surely there is more going on out there. Please do not assume that we already know what you are doing. No project is too small. If you are interviewing farmworkers we want to know about it. The benefits of having this information in one place will be great for future research. I will publish the spread sheet I have in the near future but I would like to have more information in it before doing so. Please provide us with the following information

Name of your organization

Name of Project Officer or contact person

Phone number/email address

Brief description of the project

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April 16, 2002

here's a study of Hispanic farm workers in California and cancer

Hispanic farmworkers more likely to

have cancer

March 18, 2002 Posted: 4:37 PM EST (2137 GMT)

FRESNO, California (AP) -- A

state agency's study found that

Hispanic farmworkers have

higher rates of brain, leukemia,

skin and stomach cancers than

other Hispanics in California,

a phenomenon their union

blames on pesticide exposure.

Female Hispanic farmworkers

also had more cases of uterine

cancer than the rest of the state's

Hispanic women, according to

the Cancer Registry of California

study, " Cancer Incidence in the

United Farm Workers of

America, 19 87-1997. "

The study, published in the November issue of the American

Journal of Industrial Medicine, doesn't directly link

pesticide use

to the higher rates of cancer.

Another study will examine what pesticides were used and

how

long farmworkers were exposed to them, said Mills,

the

study's author and cancer epidemiologist at the Cancer

Registry.

But the UFW believes there is a direct relationship

between the

chemicals and cancer, said Doug Blaylock, the union's

medical

plan administrator.

Bob Krauter, California Farm Bureau Federation spokesman,

said

that without discounting for family histories and

lifestyles, there's

no way to prove a direct link.

" Just because workers work in an agricultural setting

where

pesticides were used, they say, 'We're attributing this to

pesticides.' I just don't see the connection there, " he

said.

ph Wiemels, a cancer epidemiologist at the University

of

California at San Francisco, cautioned that with general

population studies like the registry study, " there are so

many

opportunities for bias because you're roughly putting data

together. "

The registry used data from 146,581 farmworkers who had

been

members of the union from 1973 to 1997 and compared it

with

the state's general Hispanic population.

It found that out of more than 140,000 farmworkers, 1,001

had

been diagnosed with cancer from 1973 into 1997, and that

there

were 59 percent more reports of leukemia and 69 percent

more

reports of stomach cancers than there were in California's

general

Hispanic population.

The study found fewer incidents of breast and colon cancer

among the farmworkers than there were in the state's

general

Hispanic population, but did not offer an explanation for

the

finding.

Mills said the study's results show the lack of health

care and

education available to the farmworkers.

The farmworkers were diagnosed at a later stage than most

of the

state's Latinos, according to the study. Many cancers,

such as

uterine cancer, are more treatable with early detection,

Mills said.

, 66, who spent 40 years spraying chemicals

on

vineyards and citrus orchards in the Imperial Valley,

blames the

pesticides for his leukemia.

Employers provided workers with gloves and masks, but

said it was often too hot to wear them. Temperatures often

rise

above 100 degrees where he worked near Palm Springs.

Krauter noted that rates of pesticide injuries and illness

have

declined in the past 20 years. In 2000, the state

Department of

Pesticide Regulation recorded 893 incidents, down 1,201

from

1999, according to a recent report.

Deldi Reyes

Environmental Scientist

USEPA Region 8 - Env Justice

(303) 312-6055

April 17, 2002

Barbara Cote' @ (616)393-5775

Community Health Assessment Coordinator

Ottawa County Public Health

12251 St. Suite 400

Holland, MI 49424

We are conducting a health survey of Hispanic migrant farmworkers and

resident Latino/Hispanics in our county to create a needs assessment and

baseline of data in cooperation with the n Samora Research Institute

of MSU. You may contact the principal investigator, Dr. Ann Millard, at

amillard.msu.edu for the facts you want in your directory for us.

April 25, 2002

Hi Joni:

CIRS is currently conducting the Agricultural Worker Health Study in California. Sponsored by The California Endowment, the AWHS is providing detailed profiles of 10 sub-regions (defined as clusters of communities withing the six agricultural regions of California characterized by similar crops, farmworker sub-populations, and service networks). The profiles are designed to lay the basis for the Endowment's Agricultural Worker Health Program, a community-based, five year initiative that will support collaborative projects among health/housing/social service providers, farm employers, civic leaders, NGOs, and farm workers. The larger goal is to develop innovative, holistic approaches to advancing individual, family, and community health for this population. Insights and programmatic approaches that emerge from these targeted efforts will serve as templates for replication in other areas in addition to acting as input for public policy development.

The director of the AWHS is Dr. Rick Mines, CIRS Research Director.

rkmines@...

530 756-6555, ext. 18

Cheers,

Lighthall Ph.D.

Executive Director

California Institute for Rural Studies

221 G Street, Suite 204

, CA 95616

Tel: (530)756-6555

Fax: (530)756-7429

dlighthall@...

www.cirsinc.org

-----Original Message-----From: Joni Berardino [mailto:jonib@...]Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 3:03 PM Subject: [ ] Are you conducting research?

Dear Egroup Members: Please forward information about research you are conducting on behalf of farmworkers or research that may benefit farmworkers. A spread sheet with this information has been started but it is woefully slim. Surely there is more going on out there. Please do not assume that we already know what you are doing. No project is too small. If you are interviewing farmworkers we want to know about it. The benefits of having this information in one place will be great for future research. I will publish the spread sheet I have in the near future but I would like to have more information in it before doing so. Please provide us with the following information

Name of your organization

Name of Project Officer or contact person

Phone number/email address

Brief description of the project

Thanks for your assistance. Joni BerardinoTo Post a message, send it to: GroupsTo Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: -unsubscribe

April 26, 2002

Joni,

In order to gauge current farmworker outreach efforts, Farmworker Health Services, Inc. (FHSI) developed and conducted a nationwide programmatic needs assessment of Migrant and Community Health Centers (M/CHCs) and Migrant Health (Voucher) Programs (MHPs). FHSI surveyed 110 M/CHCs and MHPs with a 41% response rate (45 respondents). The instrument queried respondents - CEOs, COOs and/or Migrant Coordinators - about the current outreach services being provided, staff profiles, protocols and processes in place for the delivery of outreach, provision of services and referral making, resources needed for farmworker patients and technical assistance needed for outreach programs. The survey was accompanied by a focus group of randomly selected M/CHCs and MHPs. A national and regional analysis is provided in the 2001 Farmworker Health Outreach Needs Assessment Report-A Biannual National Report on Farmworker Health Outreach Programs. FHSI encourages dialogue among communities and organizations surrounding the findings in the report and hopes that they will provide an impetus for further data collection and tracking in the area of farmworker health outreach.

Copies of the report are available at:

Farmworker Health Services, Inc.

1221 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 5

Washington, DC 20005

mail@...

(202) 347-7377

Regards,

Josh Kefauver, MSPH

Project Manager, Eastern Region

Farmworker Health Services, Inc.

josh@...

(202) 347-7377 ext. 17

-----Original Message-----

From: Joni Berardino [mailto:jonib@...]

Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 3:03 PM

Subject: [ ] Are you conducting research?

Dear Egroup Members: Please forward information about research you are

conducting on behalf of farmworkers or research that may benefit

farmworkers. A spread sheet with this information has been started but it

is woefully slim. Surely there is more going on out there. Please do not

assume that we already know what you are doing. No project is too small.

If you are interviewing farmworkers we want to know about it. The benefits

of having this information in one place will be great for future research. I

will publish the spread sheet I have in the near future but I would like to

have more information in it before doing so. Please provide us with the

following information

Name of your organization

Name of Project Officer or contact person

Phone number/email address

Brief description of the project

Thanks for your assistance. Joni Berardino

April 26, 2002

My research focus is with farm worker children and families. I just

completed an article on the mental health of the mothers of pre-schooler

in a sample from the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. I most currently

engaged in a pilot study focused on prevention of developmental delay in

Mexican Migrant Infants.

joshkefauver@... wrote:

Joni,

In order to gauge current

farmworker outreach efforts, Farmworker Health Services, Inc. (FHSI) developed

and conducted a nationwide programmatic needs assessment of Migrant and

Community Health Centers (M/CHCs) and Migrant Health (Voucher) Programs

(MHPs). FHSI surveyed 110 M/CHCs and MHPs with a 41% response

rate (45 respondents). The instrument queried respondents - CEOs,

COOs and/or Migrant Coordinators - about the current outreach services

being provided, staff profiles, protocols and processes in place for the

delivery of outreach, provision of services and referral making, resources

needed for farmworker patients and technical assistance needed for outreach

programs. The survey was accompanied by a focus group of randomly

selected M/CHCs and MHPs. A national and regional analysis is provided

in the 2001 Farmworker Health Outreach Needs Assessment Report-A Biannual

National Report on Farmworker Health Outreach Programs. FHSI

encourag! es dialogue among communities and organizations surrounding the

findings in the report and hopes that they will provide an impetus for

further data collection and tracking in the area of farmworker health outreach.

Copies of the report are

available at:

Farmworker Health Services,

Inc.

1221 Massachusetts Ave.

NW, Suite 5

Washington, DC 20005

mail@...

(202) 347-7377

Regards,

Josh Kefauver, MSPH

Project Manager, Eastern

Region

Farmworker Health Services,

Inc.

josh@...

(202) 347-7377 ext. 17

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