Natalie Price is a Graduate Student Researcher for LOSH
working on a free health clinic for taxi drivers. She is coordinating the health fair with the Los Angeles Taxi Worker's Alliance (LATWA) with help from different community organizations such as the South Asian Network (SAN). This is an important project because it brings community and labor organizing together with occupational health in order to help an underserved population get access to much needed health care services.
Ms. Price began working with LOSH in the summer of 2009 as an intern through the Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP). Her project focused on the occupational health and safety of short-haul port truck drivers, especially in light of the City of Los Angeles's new Clean Trucks Program. She hopes her project will help further the case forthe reclassification of independentowner-operator truckers as employees.
Having graduated from UCLA in June 2009 with her bachelor's degree in International Development studies and a minor in Public Health, Ms. Price is currently in her first year of a Public Health Master's Degree program at UCLA specializing in Community Health Sciences.