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"Migrant Health Promotion provided us with a link from the 'ivory tower' to the people our research is trying to serve. They helped us understand cultural and practical issues necessary to carry out research with a Latino migrant farmworker population."
-Linda Forst, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
Migrant Health Promotion conducts research in collaboration with farmworkers and their rural and border communities. The information that Promotores and Promotoras obtain from their peers yields more accurate and more complete data than that obtained by almost any other researcher, making our contribution to the field of farmworker and community-based participatory research extremely valuable. Migrant Health Promotion participates in research to expand the body of knowledge about farmworkers and their communities and to clarify which interventions best improve health. This knowledge enables communities to advocate for resources, providers to choose the most effective strategies and policymakers to direct resources to the most urgent needs and best programs.
Promotores(as) as Researchers
Promotores(as) transcend many of the challenges researchers face in studying farmworkers and rural, minority communities.
Specific Research Studies:
Promotores(as) Conduct Occupational Health Research
Promotores(as) Conduct Eye Injury and Illness Research
Promotoras Conduct HIV/AIDS Research
In addition, the large-scale REACH Promotora Community Coalition uses principles of community-based participatory research to involve Promotores(as) and community members in assessing, planning, creating and evaluating community and individual health changes in South Texas.
For help designing a research study involving Promotores(as), contact the Migrant Health Promotion Capacity-Building Team. Please visit Reviews of Effectiveness for information on the success of Promotor(a) programs in general.
