Dr. Hyland and Kathleen Steel, a student in the Joint Medical Program at UCSF/UC Berkeley have led multiple webinars with Dar a Luz to educate current and future physicians about prenatal paid leave and work accommodation options for pregnant farmworkers in California. Together, we have highlighted our research findings regarding the health impacts of prenatal pesticide exposure, importance of mitigating pesticide exposure among farmworkers during the perinatal period, availability of paid leave and work accommodations for farmworkers, and facilitators and barriers that physicians have cited to providing these leave benefits.

Dr. Hyland also participated in the UCSF Reach the Decisionmakers Fellowship, where her team developed a policy brief advocating for the California Environmental Protection Agency to update its pesticide risk assessments to include the additional impacts of heat. You can read an op-ed published by Dr. Hyland and one of her fellowship members here.