141st APHA Annual Meeting

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Nargess Shadbeh, JD

Director of Farmworker Program at the Oregon Law Center
Oregon Law Center
Farmworker Program
921 SW Washington Street
Suite 516
Portland, OR
USA 97205


Biographical Sketch:
Nargess Shadbeh has dedicated her legal career to serving farmworkers. As the Oregon Law Center’s Farmworker Program Director, she is responsible for overseeing the program’s outreach and legal assistance to farmworkers, which includes with a special focus on farmworkers from indigenous Mexican and Central American backgrounds. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator on a NIMHD funded project to study the effectiveness of innovative training modalities in reducing pesticide exposure among indigenous farmworkers.

Papers:
2074.0 Effect of a multimodal intervention on pesticide safety among indigenous farmworkers in Oregon 3374.0 Effect of a culturally-sensitive pesticide safety training on pesticide exposure and DNA damage levels among indigenous farmworkers in Oregon