CFS Guest Speaker Series: Dr. Kim Harley on Environmental Exposures in Farmworker Communities

​Curious about farmworker health? Join Climate Farm School in welcoming Dr. Kim Harley on the 29th for a live zoom event! 

​Dr. Kim Harley is a reproductive epidemiologist whose work focuses on community based research approaches to identifying and addressing environmental challenges to maternal, child, and adolescent health. In this talk, Dr. Harley will be discussing her involvement in the CHAMACOS study (Spanish for “little children”), the longest running longitudinal birth cohort study of pesticides and other environmental exposures among children in a farmworker community. This study began in 1999 with a cohort of pregnant women in the Salinas Valley, one of the nation’s most productive agricultural regions. These families have been followed for the last 25 years in order to measure exposures to pesticides, and assess the growth, health, and development of their children. Dr. Harley will be walking us through this study and its findings, and well as leading a discussion about farmworker health. There will be time for questions at the end so please feel free to come prepared with questions or just listen in! 

​ - Climate Farm School Team

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​Dr. Kim Harley

​Faculty Director of Wallace Center for Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health

​Associate Director for Health Effects, Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health (CERCH)]

​University of California Berkeley