A Public Health Crisis in the Shadows

A Public Health Crisis in the Shadows

There are an estimated 117,000 Latino migrant day laborers in the U.S., with about a third residing in California. Migrant day laborers typically perform physically demanding and dangerous work, with little-to-no access to health care or workers' protections. BIMI-affiliate Dr. Kurt Organista (UC Berkeley) and his co-authors Samantha Ngo and Dr. Torsten Neilands (UC San Francisco) explore how the living conditions experienced by Latino migrant day laborers in the San Francisco Bay Area affect their physical health, their mental health, and their chances of contracting infectious diseases. Their research exposes a public health crisis afflicting a large yet underserved population, and provides evidence-backed recommendations for therapeutic treatments and policy-based cures that could alleviate this public health concern.

UC collaborators

Kurt Organista

CGHDDE Title
Professor of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley
Primary Affiliation
UC Berkeley

Torsten Neilands

CGHDDE Title
Professor at the Department of Medicine at UCSF
Primary Affiliation
UCSF School of Medicine
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Key Partners
BIMI