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Ewa M. Dabrowska (MSc, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland; PhD, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario), is a medical geographer with special interest in the effects of occupational and environmental exposures on human health and a postdoctoral fellow in the Safety Net Occupational Health and Safety Research Centre at Memorial University, Canada. Her research expertise and interests are health and safety of agricultural workers, ethnic minority and migrant farm workers. She is also interested in intervention effectiveness research, health equity, labour migration, rural economics and risk management.

"I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Memorial University of Newfoundland working in two research units: SafetyNet (Occupational Health & Safety Research Centre) Faculty of Medicine and the Boreal Ecosystem Research Initiative (BERI). I came to the Memorial University of Newfoundland from the University of Alberta where I taught courses in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences for four years and worked as a Manager of Research Support Services. I received my Ph.D. in Geography from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, and MSc from Jagiellonian University in Krakow. I actively incorporates my passion for human welfare, safety and research into my current responsibilities. I am also an adjunct professor and a Board Member of the Community Research Ethics Office (CREO)."

Presenter at:
Health and Safety of Seasonal Migrant Farm Workers in Canada. (University of the Highlands and Islands Inverness College and the RPLC Migration Team.)
ABSTRACT: While rural labour migration continues to increase, agriculture ranks among the most hazardous industries globally with approximately 38,000 of seasonal migrant farm workers exposed to various hazards on Canadian farms annually. This research presentation discusses seasonal migrant farm workers’ occupational health safety issues in Canada. The goals are 1) to present interdisciplinary approaches to health and occupational hazards exposure in agriculture, and 2) to synthesize the existing knowledge on seasonal migrant workers’ health and agricultural safety experiences in Canada. This webinar advocates for integration of applied research programs and active collaboration addressing strategies on the control of agricultural injuries to seasonal migrant workers across Canadian provinces and internationally. Additional findings and recommendations to this session will be forthcoming during Spring 2017.