Lyndsay is a researcher and instructor at the Center for Health, Work & Environment. She currently serves as the project manager for the center's international Total Worker Health® (TWH) research and practice projects, which are aimed to evaluate and improve the health, safety and wellbeing of agricultural workers in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Mexico. Prior to her work at the center, Lyndsay was part of the Center for Global Health where she coordinated community health and clinical education projects in the Trifinio region of southwest Guatemala. She also previously managed a dengue fever surveillance and capacity-building project in southern coastal Ecuador in collaboration with the Ecuadorian Ministry of Health. Lyndsay received her MPH from the Colorado School of Public Health in 2013 and is a current DrPH student in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health.
Areas of Expertise
- International TWH
- Agricultural worker health
- Climate change and health
- Chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu)
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- MPH, Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, 2013
Awards
- Delta Omega National Honorary Society in Public Health, Alumni Member, 2017
Publications and Presentations
- Krisher LK, Butler-Dawson J, Dally M, Jaramillo D, Newman LS. Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown cause: investigations in Guatemala and opportunities for prevention. Ciencia, Tecnología y Salud. Vol 7 Num. 1. 2020
- Butler-Dawson J, Krisher L, Yoder H, Dally M, Sorensen C, Johnson RJ, Asensio C, Cruz A, Johnson EC, Carlton EJ, Tenney L, Asturias EJ, Newman LS. Evaluation of heat stress and cumulative incidence of acute kidney injury in sugarcane workers in Guatemala. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. 2019. 92(7), pp. 977–990
- Dally M, Butler-Dawson J, Krisher L, Monaghan A, Weitzenkamp D, Sorensen C, Johnson RJ, Carlton EJ, Asensio C, Tenney L, Newman LS. The impact of heat and impaired kidney function on productivity of Guatemalan sugarcane workers. PLoS One. 2018 Oc 5;13(10):e0205181; 13
- Lyndsay K. Krisher, Jesse Krisher, Mariano Ambuludi, Ana Arichabala, Efrain Beltrán-Ayala, Patricia Navarrete, Tania Ordoñez, Mark E. Polhemus, Fernando Quintana, Rosemary Rochford, Mercy Silva, Juan Bazo and Anna M. Stewart-Ibarra. Successful malaria elimination in the Ecuador–Peru border region: epidemiology and lessons learned. Malar J. 2016 Nov 15:573
- Edwin J Asturias, Gretchen Heinrichs, Gretchen Domek, John Brett, Elizabeth Shick, Maureen Cunningham, Sheana Bull, Marco Celada, Lee S Newman, Liliana Tenney, Lyndsay Krisher, Claudia Luna-Asturias, Kelly McConnell, Stephen Berman. The Center for Human Development in Guatemala: An Innovative Model for Global Population Health. Adv Pediatr 2016 Aug 3;63(1):357-87. Epub 2016 Jun 3