CERCH puts a strong emphasis on actively integrating community stakeholder input into every step of our processes including research design, implementation and dissemination. This input plays a key role in maximizing the appropriateness and efficiency of study activities while at once fostering rich dialogues and facilitating local capacity building opportunities.
Community Research Partners
- Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas (www.csvs.org)
- Natividad Medical Center (www.natividad.com)
Community Partners
- South County Outreach Effort (SCORE)
- Monterey County Health Department (www.mtyhd.org)
- Grower-Shipper Association of Central California (www.growershipper.com)
- California Childcare Health Program (www.ucsfchildcarehealth.org)
- California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) (www.crla.org)
- Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, Northern California (http://coeh.berkeley.edu/ucpehsu/index.html)
Community Advisory Board Members
- Fernando Armenta, Monterey County Supervisor District 1
- Jim Bogart, Grower-Shipper Association
- Maximilliano Cuevas, Executive Director, CSVS
- Norm Groot, Executive Director, Monterey County Farm Bureau
- Jesús Lopez, SCORE
- Mike Meuter, CRLA
- Maricruz Ladino, Farmworker representative
- Eric Lauritzen, Agricultural Commissioner Monterey County
- Paula Placencia, Lideres Campesinas
- Simon Salinas, Monterey County Supervisor District 3
- Sergio Sanchez, Salinas City Councilmember District 1
- Dan Shapiro, Associate Professor CSU Monterey Bay
- Ed Moreno, Monterey County Public Health Officer
- Valerie Bengal, Natividad Medical Center
- John Silva, Natividad Medical Center
- A rotating member of the CHAMACOS Youth Community Council (currently, Ramon Jimenez)
Agricultural Council
- Jim Bogart, Grower-Shipper Association
- Norm Groot, Executive Director, Monterey County Farm Bureau
- Eric Lauritzen, Agricultural Commissioner Monterey County
- Abbey Taylor Silva, Grower-Shipper Association
- Carolyn O’Donnell, California Strawberry Commission
- Dan Legard, California Strawberry Commission
- Larry Jacobs, Jacobs Farms
Youth Council
- Brian Jimenez
- Edgar Cardoso
- Jackie Mirles
- Daisy Gallardo
- Giselle Lazaro
- Angel Heredia
- Isaac Garces
- Pattie Meza
- Juan Ramirez
- Carmen Ramirez
External Scientific Advisory Board Members
- Larry Kushi, Sc.D., Kaiser Permanente Division of Research
- Michael Lipsett, J.D./M.D., Chief of the Environmental Health Investigations Branch, CA DPH
- Robert Wright, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Mt.Sinai Hospital
- A rotating member of the Community Advisory Board (currently Ed Moreno, Monterey County Public Health Officer)