Catherine LePrevost

Bio

Education

Ph.D., Science Education, NC State

Research Interests

My interests include science education that takes place outside of the classroom, especially with rural and agricultural communities on topics related to pesticides and environmental toxicology. I study effective teaching and communication practices in non-traditional learning settings, and I am particularly interested in the practices of community health workers who engage farmworkers. A current focus of my work is increasing these community health workers’ access to health information and piloting technology to enhance farmworker education in combination with professional development opportunities for community health workers. I am also co-leading a research-to-practice project involving an examination of farmworkers’ pesticide risk beliefs and protective behaviors in the field and the development of an intervention with community health workers to reduce farmworker exposure to pesticides.

Web Resources

What You Need to Know about Eating Freshwater Fish in North Carolina: Fish Consumption Advisories

The Pesticides and Farmworker Health Toolkit

Publications

• Assessing Stock Photos for Farmworker Health and Safety Education Materials , JOURNAL OF AGROMEDICINE (2024)
• Community health worker outreach to farmworkers in rural North Carolina: Learning from adaptations to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic , HEALTH EXPECTATIONS (2024)
• Exploring the learning preferences of farmworker-serving community health workers , HEALTH INFORMATION AND LIBRARIES JOURNAL (2024)
• "Valorar el trabajo de farmworkers": A thematic analysis of input from farmworkers, advocates, and students in a community documentary project about the future of farm work , PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING (2023)
• An Analysis of the Availability of Health Education Materials for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers , JOURNAL OF AGROMEDICINE (2023)
• Educator beliefs and organizational constraints: Factors that influence informal education about fish consumption advisories in a southeastern US state , SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT (2023)
• Increasing health facility childbirth in Ghana: the role of network and community norms , BMC PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH (2023)
• The Cost of Diversity: An Analysis of Representation and Cost Barriers in Stock Photo Libraries for Health Education Materials, 2021 , HEALTH PROMOTION PRACTICE (2023)
• Community Health Workers' Role in Addressing Farmworker Health Disparities , JOURNAL OF AGROMEDICINE (2022)
• Creating information resources and trainings for farmworker-serving community health workers , Journal of the Medical Library Association (2022)