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Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing

UI Health is UIC’s academic health enterprise

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Farmworker Engagement News

This page lists news posts about how the Center reaches out to and collaborates with farmworkers. This includes topics like working with farmworker advisory boards and best practices for engaging farmworkers in research studies.

A farmworker harvesting chard appears exhausted, and colleagues are bent over working in the background; the new farmworker health survey tool will measure factors affecting the wellbeing of these workers.

Improving Research Quality with a New Farmworker Health Survey Tool

Posted on September 01, 2023

Farmworkers' health and wellbeing are affected by different factors than workers in other industries. Center researchers are building and testing a tool to more accurately uncover the most urgent issues.