Sherry Baron is Professor of Urban Studies and the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College. She also serves on the Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Baron’s research areas include environmental public health, immigrant public health and workers’ health and safety. Baron training is as a medical doctor and in public health. Prior to coming to Queens College in 2014 she was a medical epidemiologic researcher for 25 years at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. She is a coauthor of the textbook Occupational and Environmental Health, Seventh edition. Her recent research focuses on understanding the role of work on health and well-being from a social-determinants-of-health perspective. Her research aims to document the magnitude of disproportionate exposure to work hazards for low-wage, immigrant, and precarious workers and the barriers they face in accessing safer work practices and programs. She conducted research following Superstorm Sandy that demonstrated the effectiveness of community-driven disaster preparedness for immigrant laborers and cleanup workers. She is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health to study exposure to cleaning chemicals among Latinx domestic cleaners in collaboration with Make the Road New York, the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the Lautenberg Environmental Health Sciences Laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Baron teaches Introduction to Environmental and Public Health Policy and PracticeURBST 221 and also teaches the Macaulay Honors College seminar on Science and Technology in the City
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