| Erica is a PhD candidate in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health with an Area of Emphasis on Occupational Health Services Research. After graduating with her baccalaureate degree from the University of Washington, she served as an AmeriCorps Patient Navigator at Sea Mar Community Health Centers. This solidified her passion for systems and policy changes to ensure access to resources and care for communities that have historically been excluded, including agricultural workers. Erica earned her Master of Public Health, at Columbia University, New York City, before returning to UW to complete her PhD program. Her research interests include occupational health disparities, mixed methods, how policies affect health, and community-based participatory research. Erica’s research since returning to UW has been broadly focused on agricultural worker health, ways to improve workplace safety and health holistically, and Latinx health disparities in WA. Her dissertation work is a mixed method study focused on labor and social determinant related laws that impact agricultural workers and how those laws are associated with agricultural worker health. |
Publications:
- Chavez Santos E, Spector JT, Egbert J, Krenz J, Sampson PD, Palmández P, Torres E, Blancas M, Carmona J, Jung J, Flunker JC. The effect of the participatory heat education and awareness tools (HEAT) intervention on agricultural worker physiological heat strain: results from a parallel, comparison, group randomized study. BMC Public Health. 2022 Sep 15;22(1):1746. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14144-2.
- Marquez D, Krenz JE, Chavez Santos É, Torres E, Palmández P, Sampson PD, Blancas M, Carmona J, Spector JT. The Effect of Participatory Heat Education on Agricultural Worker Knowledge. J Agromedicine. 2023 Apr;28(2):187-198. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2022.2058667. Epub 2022 Apr 17.
- Krenz J, Santos EC, Torres E, Palmández P, Carmona J, Blancas M, Marquez D, Sampson P, Spector JT. The multi-level heat education and awareness tools [HEAT] intervention study for farmworkers: Rationale and methods. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2021 Jun 8;22:100795. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2021.100795. PMID: 34169175; PMCID: PMC8209069.
- Baquero B, Gonzalez C, Ramirez M, Chavez Santos E, Ornelas IJ. Understanding and Addressing Latinx COVID-19 Disparities in Washington State. Health Educ Behav. 2020 Dec;47(6):845-849. doi: 10.1177/1090198120963099. Epub 2020 Oct 14. PMID: 33148042; PMCID: PMC7935426.
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Recipient:
- UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies Washington State Labor Research Grant, 2022-2023
- Office of Graduate Student Equity and Excellence Foundry 10 Summery Support Award, 2022
- American Evaluation Association Graduate Education Diversity Internship, 2020, 2021
- UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, LERA-Bassett Scholarship in Labor Relations, 2019
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