John S. Luque

Now is the time to get your abstracts for papers or workshops ready to submit! https://2021.attendicec.org/

Dr. Luque began his term as Secretary of the American Association for Cancer Education (AACE). He has previously served as an At-Large Member of the Executive Council for the last two years. In that capacity he served as Co-Chair of the ICEC Abstract Committee and the Co-Chair of the AACE Membership Committee. In his role as Secretary, Dr. Luque continues to recruit new members to AACE and organizes the quarterly newsletter. If you are not already a member, please consider joining AACE today or making a gift contribution to the organization.

Issue Guide: Knowledge and practices to avoid heat-related illness among Hispanic farmworkers along the Florida-Georgia line

This site provides a GIS map of active cases:

https://www.gisaid.org/epiflu-applications/global-cases-covid-19/

The map shows rural areas are less affected, but for how long??

FAMU will receive a $14.8 million renewal grant from the National Institute on Minority Health Disparities (NIMHD), part of the National Institutes of Health.

FAMU is one of eight institutions with renewed awards through NIMHD’s Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Specialized Centers program.

https://www.nimhd.nih.gov/programs/extramural/research-centers/rcmi/rcmi-grants.html

Our ICEC Conference Planning Committee has been working very hard to put this year’s conference together in Salt Lake City. Please visit the conference website to register and see the preliminary program!

https://2019.attendicec.org/ICEC2019/Registration/Registration_Details/ICEC2019/Registration.aspx?hkey=2aa3d842-e368-4cfb-a76e-cae95f7391ae

It was fun to see old colleagues and friends as well as interact with new colleagues at this year’s SfAA meeting. In the business meeting they reported it was the 3rd largest SfAA ever at close to 1,900 registrants.

Luque, J. “Heat Stress Prevention Strategies among Farmworkers in Georgia,” paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meeting (March, 2019), Portland, OR.

Pictured here on a panel of farm-related research papers at the conference.

In our work as academics, we may decide to publish in open access journals and pay publication fees for the privilege of owning the rights to our intellectual product. However, it might be difficult for us to evaluate the level of credibility that some of these journals might have. We receive barrages of emails asking for contributions to journals with questionable value. I have published some papers with the Biomed Central open access journals, and they have a good reputation as far as I know. We recently published in a new open access journal that has a distinguished editorial board, Cancer Health Disparities. Although it is not indexed in PubMed yet, I hope that it will be soon, so the science on cancer health disparities can be more widely shared with our colleagues around the world. See below for a link to our recent comparative study published in this new journal.

Luque, J; Maupin, J; Ferris, D. (2018) Comparative study of HPV and Cervical Cancer Knowledge and Beliefs between Mexican Immigrant Women in the US and Peruvian Women. Cancer Health Disparities, 2:e1-e16.
Link

APHA San Diego was a busy meeting. I presented my poster on heat safety discussions with Hispanic farmworkers in the OHS section. I enjoyed seeing old colleagues and friends and meeting new people.

Luque, J; Bossak, B; Tovar-Aguilar, A; Davila, C. “Heat Stress Prevention Strategies among Farmworkers in South Carolina,” poster presented at the APHA Conference (November, 2018), San Diego, CA.

The Heat Safety Pilot study is underway. We will be collecting surveys with Hispanic farmworkers about their knowledge and practices regarding heat safety. With record summer temperatures soaring and heat index values well into the 100s in June and July, the mantra “Water, Rest, and Shade” has never been more important to remember! Pictured below is the process of harvesting eggplant.