Biographic Sketches of Committee Members - Agriculture Forestry and Fishing Research at NIOSH - page 285

Lorann Stallones is a professor of epidemiology in the Colorado State University
Department of Psychology. She is also the director of the Colorado Injury Con-
trol Research Center and an adjunct professor in the Department of Preventive
Medicine and Biometrics of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Her research is in injuries in farmers; adolescent farm work, fatigue, and injuries;
the relationship between pesticides and mental health (depressive symptoms and
neurobehavioral symptoms); pesticides and safety practices on farms; and pesticide
exposures of migrant and seasonal farm workers. She has also studied the relation-
ships between congenital anomalies, birth weight, and pesticide exposures; head
injuries and cancer in Hispanic farm workers; and musculoskeletal injuries, suicide,
and respiratory symptoms in farmers. Dr. Stallones is on the editorial board of the
Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health . She was a member of the Epidemiology
Committee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute predoctoral fellowship panel
(1996, 1998, and 1999) and chair of the committee (2000 and 2001). She was on the
2003 National Academy of Sciences Vietnam Education Fellowship Review Panel.
She has served on numerous grant-review panels for the National Institute for Oc-
cupational Safety and Health and the National Center for Injury Prevention and
Control and was a regular member of the Injury Research Grant Review Committee
(1991-1995) and the Safety and Occupational Health Study Section (2003-2007).
She has reviewed grants for the British Columbia Health Research Foundation,
Health Canada, and the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation. She
was secretary-treasurer of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (1990-1993).
She was president of the National Association of Injury Control Research Centers
(1998-1999). She served on the Board of Directors for the American College of
Epidemiology (2003-2006) and was recently elected to serve as secretary (2006-
2011). Dr. Stallones received her PhD in epidemiology and her MPH in community
health from the University of Texas School of Public Health and her BA in cultural
anthropology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Don Villarejo is a cofounder and retired as executive director of the California
Institute for Rural Studies, which he served for 22 years. He has been working to
improve the health and well-being of California's hired farm workers and to expand
healthcare for the working poor. His research interests include pest management,
farm-labor contractors and safety in the fields, farm-labor housing, reclamation
policy in the western states, and new methods for surveying farmworker popula-
tions. In addition to his speaking engagements at agricultural health and safety
seminars and conferences, Dr. Villarejo conducts training for attorneys and field
staff members of the Agricultural Labor Relations Board. He received the 2005
Advocate of Social Justice Award from the Ecological Farming Association for
his long-term contributions to the well-being of the people who work in food
production and agriculture. He also received a Board of Directors Award from the