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California farmworker communities face increasingly dire threats linked to climate change. From extreme heat, air pollution, and flood damage, to crop failures from drought and new pests to increased exposure to pesticides, farmworkers are experiencing climate change challenges that compound their social, political, and economic vulnerabilities.
The "Farmworker Community Health Vulnerabilities and Responses Amid Climate Change" project, funded by the state of California through a UC Climate Action grant, has mapped where these multiple vectors of climate vulnerability intersect on the ground in California with a community co-designed map app called Campo-Sano. Supplementing this app with additional tools and trainings designed with and for promotores (community health workers), this research team sought to develop freely available resources for farmworkers and their advocates across California and beyond. In addition, this was a project multiple high school students in UCGHI's Summer Researchers in Global Health Program worked on during summer 2025.
Join the UCGHI Grand Rounds and hear from Dr. Matt Sparke from the UC Santa Cruz Global and Community Health Program about this multi-UC campus project and how they worked with 10 community-based organizations across California to develop the Campo-Sano app.
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