Agromedicine addresses the occupational, community, and environmental health and safety concerns of people involved in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries through research, education, and outreach. Extension interests include overall agricultural hazards and injuries, sun exposure, mental health, migrant health, childhood agricultural injury and illness, and pesticide and environmental toxicology. I develop education and outreach materials and programs, serve as a liaison and catalyst for research, and develop and deliver training for North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service field faculty, state agency personnel, and other constituents. I am a faculty member of the NC Agromedicine Institute. I am a leader of several regional Extension efforts, including the SERA-37 The New Hispanic South, an effort to expand Cooperative Extension’s capacity to understand and reach the growing Latino community in the South. Projects include development of the Pesticides and Farmworker Health Toolkit, development of Understanding the Agricultural Health Study, adaptation of the Certified Safe Farm program to NC agriculture, and development of an innovative Latino cultural competency curriculum involving domestic immersion in a the Latino community in the Southeast.

Selected Publications:

 Swinker, M., C.G. Smith, C. Shy, J.F. Storm. 1999. Pesticide poisoning cases in North Carolina, 1990-1993:  a retrospective review.  North Carolina Medical Journal. 60(2):  77-82.

Cope, W.G., J.F. Storm. 1999. Pesticides and human health:  a review of principles, mechanisms, and effects. Chapter 4 In Private Applicator Recertification Program Training Notebook 2000-2002, W. Buhler (ed.). NC Cooperative Extension Service, Raleigh, NC.

Donham, K. J., J.F. Storm. 2002. “Agriculture at Risk: A Report to the Nation” –A Historical Review, Critical Analysis, and Implications for Future Planning. Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health.8(1):9-35.

Storm, J.F., W.G. Cope, W.G. Buhler, K.M. McGinnis.  2004. Understanding the Agricultural Health Study 3-part Series, Pub. No. AG-MED-24, 25, 26.  NC Cooperative Extension Service, Raleigh, NC, 20 pp.

Behnke, A. O., Falk, C., & Storm, J. F. 2009. Health and safety events for Latino families: Collaborating to create “El Día de los Niños Celebración.” Journal of Extension [On-line], 47(2) Article 2IAW3. Available at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2009april/iw3.php

LePrevost, C.,  J. F. Storm, C. Asuaje, M. Blanchard, G. Cope. 2009. (abstract) Developing Interactive Training for Farmworkers: the Pesticides and Farmworker Health Toolkit, North American Pesticide Applicator Certification and Safety Education Workshop, August 10-13, 2009, Charleston, SC.

LePrevost, C., J.F. Storm, D. Babbs, B. Bunch, C. Asuaje, G. Cope. 2010. Pesticides and Farmworker Health Toolkit (1-page handouts and 30-page training flip charts in English and Spanish for tobacco, tomatoes, sweetpotatoes). AgMed-7, AgMed-8, AgMed-22, AgMed-23, AgMed-9, AgMed-10. NC Cooperative Extension Service, Raleigh, NC