public health Archives - Alisha Camacho

Understanding indoor air quality as Canadian wildfire smoke looms over U.S.

June 9, 2025

Dr. Devon Payne-Sturges and I repurposed our blog post analyzing indoor air quality during the 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke episode to reach a broader audience. The article was published in Dialogue & Discourse.

Maryland’s landmark heat stress standard risks leaving farmworkers behind as temperatures and political tensions rise

May 16, 2025

Two farmworkers, on the left, prepare to load watermelons from a tractor, on the right, into the warehouse through a window opening in the building. The photo contains dark shadows to help conceal the farmworkers’ identities.

I co-authored this piece in Dialogue & Discourse to share RESPIRAR project findings on how Maryland’s heat stress policy may leave migrant farmworkers at risk.

Op-ed in the Washington Post

March 9, 2018

A view looking north from the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge, which carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in 2013. Buzzard Point is to the left. (Maddie Meyer/The Washington Post)

I wrote this op-ed on behalf of Rhonda Hamilton, the ANC commissioner for the Buzzard Point community — and my personal shero.