Thomas A. Arcury, PhD

Professor
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Medical Center Blvd
Winston-Salem, NC
USA 27157

Biographical Sketch: Thomas A. Arcury, Ph.D., is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He is also Director of the Center for Worker Health at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology in 1983 from the University of Kentucky. Since 1996, he has collaborated in a program of community-based participatory research with immigrant farmworkers and poultry processing workers and their families focused on occupational and environmental health and justice.

Papers:
3162.0 Work organization and health among immigrant women: Latina manual workers in North Carolina 3264.1 Is impaired olfactory function an early warning sign for health effects of pesticide exposure in Latino farmworkers? 3304.2 Using CBPR in a prospective study of the neurological effects of occupational pesticide exposure in farmworkers 4175.0 Food insecurity and barriers to food access among Latino migrant and seasonal farmworker families with young children 4175.0 Sedentary and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity among preschool-aged Latino children in farmworker families 5150.0 Building infrastructure for community-linked health research: Focusing on the food environment in North Carolina