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Sep 13, 2023

Prolonged heat waves and the sweltering summer days that accompany climate change can be hazardous for human health, leading to conditions such as heat stroke and even causing permanent organ damage or death if not treated quickly.

Sep 7, 2023

Researchers from the Center for Health, Work & Environment are exploring the effects of climate change and heat exposure on agricultural workers in rural Jalisco, Mexico.

Aug 28, 2023

Each year, Health Links celebrates Colorado employers committed to workplace health, safety, and well-being. This year’s in-person event aptly honored the award winners and finalists for their achievements in the workplace while providing attendees the opportunity to network and gain inspiration from other employers.

Aug 28, 2023

ColoradoSPH is preparing to play a lead role in investigating and responding to the rapidly intensifying effects of global climate change. Starting in Fall 2024, the school is launching the nation’s first PhD program that focuses specifically on climate change and its multiple impacts on people’s health and the communities where they live.

Aug 22, 2023

Health Links has been a trusted advisor helping organizations assess and advance Total Worker Health for over a decade. A crucial component of the program is the Healthy Workplace Assessment which as been recently updated. The enhancements reflect the emerging issues facing workplaces today and a broadened understanding of the worker experience.

Aug 22, 2023

Individuals living in communities hobbled by poverty, discrimination, and lack of access to resources like housing and healthcare suffer the effects of climate change disproportionately. ColoradoSPH and community partners in the San Luis Valley and the neighborhoods of West Denver are out to change that with a NIH-funded project that is the product of years of relationship building between the school and these communities.

Aug 16, 2023

Courtney Welton-Mitchell and Natalie Schwatka from the Center for Health, Work & Environment recently completed a two-year research project of psychological preparedness training for the public-school workforce, complimenting current emergency p­­­reparedness plans and drills.

Aug 11, 2023

It’s not often you meet a person who likes change. For most of us, change is unsettling, disruptive, unpredictable. Cortney Cuff, senior program manager for training and community, thrives in it. It is her passion for new ideas and bringing people together that make her an essential member of a research to practice public health center.

Aug 9, 2023

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, undertaken by the Committee on the Review of EPA's 2022 Draft Formaldehyde Assessment and chaired by Jonathan Samet, MD, MS, professor and former dean of ColoradoSPH, recommends that EPA revise its draft assessment to be more easily followed.

Aug 1, 2023

One of the many ways we work to protect workers is through educating and training future leaders in occupational safety and health. As part of our Student Spotlight series highlighting our trainees, we interviewed Raissa Chunko, a Mountain & Plains Education and Research Center trainee earning a Master's in Health Physics from Colorado State University.

Aug 1, 2023

As the COVID pandemic made clear, public health officials need to be equipped with the best available information to optimize public health operations both now and in the future. To answer this call, researchers at ColoradoSPH have created and launched the Rocky Mountain COVID Data dashboard.

Jul 22, 2023

A team from the Center for Health, Work & Environment will host 200 Mexican Institute of Social Security occupational health and safety professionals in Puebla, Mexico for a two-week training in Total Worker Health.

Jul 21, 2023

The Center for Health, Work & Environment at ColoradoSPH will soon be training researchers to address the impact of climate change on the health of workers. It’s newly established training program for doctoral students, Targeted Research Training Program in Climate and Worker Safety and Health, is the first of its kind in the United States.

Jul 14, 2023

Colorado School of Public Health research team, including Miranda Dally and Megan Cherewick, partner with the International Labour Organization’s Vision Zero Fund to study the effects of climate change in Vietnamese agricultural workers.

Jun 8, 2023

With wildfire season upon us, cities across the United States are being urged by health officials to stay inside, but even indoor air can be hazardous. “There are two general ways to decrease your exposure to wildfire smoke – breathe less or breathe cleaner air." Mike Van Dyke, PhD, gives tips on how to keep your indoor air clean when under an air quality alert.

Jun 7, 2023

In our Alumni Spotlight series highlighting our graduated MAP ERC trainees, we interviewed Janalee McKnight, an ergonomics and safety graduate working as the Senior Manager, Global Health and Safety Training Programs at VF Corporation.

Jun 2, 2023

Now in its tenth year, the MAP ERC Interdisciplinary Course follows a field consultation format allowing students to develop specific occupational health and safety assessment, leadership, and communication skills. We asked our current trainees about the impact this course has had on their educational journey.

Jun 1, 2023

While doing a preliminary assessment for environmental health hazards for the agriculture workforce in Southern Colorado, researcher Kathy James was redirected. Her community partners sounded an alarm for a behavioral health crisis in the Ag community.

May 30, 2023

One of the many ways we work to protect workers is through educating and training future leaders in occupational safety and health. As part of our Student Spotlight series highlighting our trainees, we interviewed Phillip Stepherson, a Mountain & Plains Education and Research Center trainee earning a Master's in Industrial Hygiene from Colorado State University.

May 22, 2023

The study, led by Kathy James, ColoradoSPH associate professor, focuses on arsenic in private drinking wells in San Luis Valley groundwater, which she says has been gradually increasing in drinking wells over the past 50 years.