Spotlight on Climate-Related Health Challenges

During a presentation Elizabeth Rojo stopped at a slide listing two names and photos. The two people had recently died working on North Carolina farms in high heat conditions. With 2.3 million farm workers in the U.S., the state of North Carolina has the sixth largest farmworker community nationwide, said Rojo, a Ph.D. candidate at Duke. Climate change is putting many of these lives at greater risk. “Heat protection needs to happen now. What are we going to do?” Rojo asked the audience at the Innovative Strategies for Addressing Climate-Related Health Challenges Symposium at Duke on…