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Opportunities and Challenges
UT Conference Center, 600 Henley Street, Knoxville, TN 37902
March 31 - April 1, 2006
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Speakers: Sandy Smith-Nonini
Sandy Smith-Nonini is currently working on a book project, funded by the
Wenner-Gren
Foundation, which is based in part on her dissertation research - a study
of struggles for health reform in El Salvador during and after that country's
civil war.
Since 1998 she has also been conducting research on Latino farmworkers in North Carolina and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee's successful campaign to organize thousands of Mexican guestworkers brought to North Carolina farms under the federal H2A program. In 2000 she did a short research project on the occupational health risks experienced by Latino meatpacking workers in Duplin County, N.C. Other past research includes a study of responses of public health institutions to drug-resistant tuberculosis epidemics in Lima, Peru and New York City. Prior to attending graduate school, Smith-Nonini worked for ten years as a journalist, including medical writing and two years (1987-89) working free lance from El Salvador for U.S. newspapers. Send questions, comments to: Conference Questions Last updated March 13, 2006 |
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