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As the weather cools and the holidays approach, we look forward to celebrating the season with family and friends. This year, with COVID-19 cases on the rise, we need to take a few extra steps at work and at home in order to share the love without spreading the virus. 

The Outreach team organized and participated in 46 events, including virtual safety trainings, presentations, and radio interviews and reached 2,500 people.

WCAHS investigators published 22 reports in peer-reviewed journals discussing the results of their work.

Soil fumigants are a class of pesticides used to control soil-borne pests, such as nematodes and pathogens, and are commonly applied in the fall after harvest or in the spring as a pre-plant soil preparation in a number of major California specialty crops. However, many conventional and widely used soil fumigants, such as chloropicrin and 1,3-dichloropropene, have been identified as toxic and/or possibly carcinogenic.

by Sofia Ledesema

My name is Sofia Ledesema and I am one of the UC Davis Undergraduate Public Health Scholars who was funded this summer to conduct research under the mentorship of Dr. Kent Pinkerton at the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS). With the support of Dr. Pinkerton and Dr. Heather J. Hether from the UC Davis Communications Department, I created a study that focused on the readability of health communications for farmworkers.