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 the Understandability and Actionability of Education Materials for Agricultural Workers' Health , JOURNAL OF AGROMEDICINE (2025)
• Finding the pulse of healthy native freshwater mussels (order Unionida): Insights from propagation biologists , JOURNAL OF AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH (2025)
• Preparing for Inclusion of Agricultural Workers in Climate-Related and Other Public Health Emergencies: A Quantitative Content Analysis of County Emergency Preparedness Plans, Eastern North Carolina, 2022-2023 , DISASTER MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS (2025)
• Self-Reported Pesticide Application, Access to Pesticide Labels, and QR Code Use Among Agricultural H-2A Workers, North Carolina, 2024 , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE (2025)
• 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)
• Internet Devices and Internet Access Among Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers, North Carolina, 2023 , PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS (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)