markdcatlin | Dr. Sara Quandt & Dr. Thomas Arcury, 2017 Alice Hamilton Award, OHS Section, APHA @markdcatlin | Uploaded November 2017 | Updated October 2024, 16 minutes ago.
Thomas A. Arcury, PhD and Sara A Quandt, PhD of Wake Forest School of Medicine received the 2017 Alice Hamilton Award from the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). This award recognizes the life-long contributions of individuals who have distinguished themselves through a career of hard work and dedication to improve the lives of workers. For nearly 25 years, Drs. Quandt and Arcury have been champions for the OHS rights of immigrant workers. They partner with immigrant service and advocacy organizations to ensure that their research reflects the needs prioritized by workers and their communities. They have investigated occupational factors that undermine the health of immigrant and young farmworkers, poultry processing workers, and construction workers. Their research has examined a diversity of topics including green tobacco sickness, pesticide exposures, falls from elevations, and musculoskeletal disorders. They work with community partners to return research results to the workers, and develop culturally and linguistically-appropriate educational programs that provide workers and their families with information they can use to help attain health sovereignty. Drs. Quandt and Arcury seek to ensure their research is meaningful and accessible to those who advocate with and for vulnerable workers. Their work was influential to support changes to federal regulations on youth farmworkers and EPA’s Worker Protection Standard. In addition, their poultry worker research has been a valuable resource to organizations engaged in a campaign to improve working conditions for poultry and meatpacking workers. Because policymakers are not always swayed by the testimony of workers, national and community-based organizations have (literally) put their data and findings into the hands of White House officials and Members of Congress. Workers and their allies recognize that decision-makers’ minds may be changed when handed a stack of well-conducted, peer-reviewed studies. Drs. Quandt and Arcury have a distinguished record of over 200 publications on occupational health. They are dedicated to inspiring the next generation of OHS researchers, having mentored several junior MD and PhD researchers. They host a Meharry Occupational Medicine rotation every summer, and regularly include medical and undergraduate students in OHS research and publication. Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), a founding member of the OHS Section, is considered a pioneer of occupational health in the U.S. and was a tireless activist and physician who dedicated her life to improving the health and safety of workers. She was committed to science, service and compassion. Every year, the OHS Section presents four awards at the APHA Annual Meeting. These awards are granted to highly deserving individuals or organizations that provide tireless advocacy for the health and safety of workers in the U.S. and internationally. The OHS Section is involved in preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, disabilities and deaths through research, training, treatment, advocacy and policymaking. The OHS Section is one of the oldest within APHA, advocating for the health, safety and well-being of workers, families, communities and the environment since 1914. The OHS Section provides leadership and expertise on occupational health matters, recognizing the intrinsic link between the work environment and the health and safety of families, communities and the environment at large.
Thomas A. Arcury, PhD and Sara A Quandt, PhD of Wake Forest School of Medicine received the 2017 Alice Hamilton Award from the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). This award recognizes the life-long contributions of individuals who have distinguished themselves through a career of hard work and dedication to improve the lives of workers. For nearly 25 years, Drs. Quandt and Arcury have been champions for the OHS rights of immigrant workers. They partner with immigrant service and advocacy organizations to ensure that their research reflects the needs prioritized by workers and their communities. They have investigated occupational factors that undermine the health of immigrant and young farmworkers, poultry processing workers, and construction workers. Their research has examined a diversity of topics including green tobacco sickness, pesticide exposures, falls from elevations, and musculoskeletal disorders. They work with community partners to return research results to the workers, and develop culturally and linguistically-appropriate educational programs that provide workers and their families with information they can use to help attain health sovereignty. Drs. Quandt and Arcury seek to ensure their research is meaningful and accessible to those who advocate with and for vulnerable workers. Their work was influential to support changes to federal regulations on youth farmworkers and EPA’s Worker Protection Standard. In addition, their poultry worker research has been a valuable resource to organizations engaged in a campaign to improve working conditions for poultry and meatpacking workers. Because policymakers are not always swayed by the testimony of workers, national and community-based organizations have (literally) put their data and findings into the hands of White House officials and Members of Congress. Workers and their allies recognize that decision-makers’ minds may be changed when handed a stack of well-conducted, peer-reviewed studies. Drs. Quandt and Arcury have a distinguished record of over 200 publications on occupational health. They are dedicated to inspiring the next generation of OHS researchers, having mentored several junior MD and PhD researchers. They host a Meharry Occupational Medicine rotation every summer, and regularly include medical and undergraduate students in OHS research and publication. Alice Hamilton (1869-1970), a founding member of the OHS Section, is considered a pioneer of occupational health in the U.S. and was a tireless activist and physician who dedicated her life to improving the health and safety of workers. She was committed to science, service and compassion. Every year, the OHS Section presents four awards at the APHA Annual Meeting. These awards are granted to highly deserving individuals or organizations that provide tireless advocacy for the health and safety of workers in the U.S. and internationally. The OHS Section is involved in preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, disabilities and deaths through research, training, treatment, advocacy and policymaking. The OHS Section is one of the oldest within APHA, advocating for the health, safety and well-being of workers, families, communities and the environment since 1914. The OHS Section provides leadership and expertise on occupational health matters, recognizing the intrinsic link between the work environment and the health and safety of families, communities and the environment at large.
