Expanding Research Partnerships: State of the Science Conference

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, in partnership with our center, the Center for Health, Work & Environment, hosted the Expanding Research Partnerships: State of the Science Conference on June 21–23, 2017 on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus. The conference goals were to enhance and expand intramural and extramural partnership in occupational safety and health research and launch the third decade of the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA).   

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Presentations

Wednesday, June 21

Plenaries

• The third decade of NORA​, Sarah Felknor, Lore Jackson Lee, Paul Schulte, NIOSH
• Leveraging industrial and unemployment insurance data to target at-risk construction firms, Washington State​, Jennifer Marcum, Washington Department of Labor and Industries
• Silicosis prevalence among Medicare beneficiaries, 1999-2014​, Megan Casey, NIOSH
• Dehydration status and heat related symptoms in Florida farmworkers​, Linda McCauley, Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
• Improving PFD use among commercial fishermen: Using partnerships to effect change​, Jennifer Lincoln, NIOSH

Ignite Rapid Fire Session

• Virtual simulation training system (VSTS), Amy Darragh, Ohio State University​
• Heat exposure, injury risk, and productivity in agricultural workers​, June Spector, University of Washington
• Dose response of multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)-induced lung tumors, Linda Sargent, NIOSH
• What we learned partnering on a national challenge with no money and no time​, Garrett Burnett, NIOSH
• Personal, psychosocial, and biomechanical risk factors for work disability from carpal tunnel syndrome: Findings from the NIOSH Consortium Studies​, Carisa Harris-Adamson, University of California
• Using trusted research facilitators to assess tribal bison worker hazards, Ellen Duysen, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health

Concurrent Sessions 1

• World Trade Center​
• Transportation, Warehousing, and Utilities
• Manufacturing
• Total Worker Health​

Concurrent Sessions 2

• Economic Burden
• Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing
• Construction​
• Healthy Work Design​

Thursday, June 22

Early Career Scientists Plenary

• Respiratory and ocular symptoms among employees at an indoor waterpark resort, Sophia Chiu, NIOSH
• A longitudinal evaluation of kidney function among sugarcane workers in Guatemala, Jaime Butler-Dawson, Center for Health, Work & Environment, Colorado School of Public Health
• Mixed exposures to cleaning and disinfecting chemicals among healthcare workers​, Feng-Chiao Su, NIOSH
• Collaboration between NIOSH and California Department of Public Health to investigate occupational exposures in e-cigarette vape shops​, Kathleen Attfield, California Department of Public Health

Concurrent Sessions 3

• State Surveillance
• Home Health Care and Hospital Workers​
• Personal Protective Equipment​
• Respiratory Health​

Concurrent Sessions 4

• Exposure Assessment
• Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Extractive Industries
• OSH in Motion​

Partnerships Plenary

• Research partnerships in development of an engineering control for respirable crystalline silica, Barbara Alexander, NIOSH
• A partner coordinated campaign to prevent falls in construction: Historical review and analysis of reach​, Jessica Bunting, The Center for Construction Research and Training