National Agricultural Worker Health Program Combating COVID-19
The Challenge
Farmworkers are critical to meeting our most basic human need for food, but often struggle to meet their own basic needs. Despite possessing knowledge and skills that many of us lack, farmworkers generally earn very low wages, rarely have employment benefits, and live in conditions of poverty.
The essential nature of the work of farmworkers has become more prominent during the global pandemic, but conditions have not improved for America’s farmworkers.
While many of us have been working remotely from home, farmworkers have been facing repeated exposures to COVID-19 in their workplaces and in crowded housing units with little social support.
Farmworkers are critical to meeting our most basic human need for food, but often struggle to meet their own basic needs. Despite possessing knowledge and skills that many of us lack, farmworkers generally earn very low wages, rarely have employment benefits, and live in conditions of poverty.
The essential nature of the work of farmworkers has become more prominent during the global pandemic, but conditions have not improved for America’s farmworkers.
While many of us have been working remotely from home, farmworkers have been facing repeated exposures to COVID-19 in their workplaces and in crowded housing units with little social support.
Our Response
The National Center for Farmworker Health has helped lead a national effort to prevent and mitigate COVID-19 in farmworker communities throughout the country in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with more than
40 national, state, and local farmworker-serving organizations across the country.
To guide the project, we have assembled a diverse group of advisory council members that includes representatives of community-based organizations, health care providers, researchers, farmworkers, agricultural employers, and public sector agencies that serve farmworkers. You can learn more about this work below.
40 national, state, and local farmworker-serving organizations across the country.
To guide the project, we have assembled a diverse group of advisory council members that includes representatives of community-based organizations, health care providers, researchers, farmworkers, agricultural employers, and public sector agencies that serve farmworkers. You can learn more about this work below.
Our Impact
To learn more, read the National Farmworker Health Program 2021 Annual Report here, and the 2-pager Summary Report here.
Program Activities
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