Climate & Worker Health Targeted Research Training Program
Program overview
The Climate & Worker Health Targeted Research Training (TRT) program supports future leaders in the field of climate and workforce health by receiving high-quality education and research training in addressing the short- and long-term impacts of climate change on occupational health. The program emphasizes populations experiencing disparities in exposure and adaptation measures including rural, migrant and precariously employed, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), Latino/a, and aging workforces.
The Climate & Worker Health TRT is a program run across two institutions: the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado and Colorado State University. The Mountain & Plains Education and Research Center (MAP ERC) financially supports qualified students in the program. The MAP ERC is one of 18 National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) Education and Research Centers in the country.
Students supported by the center collaborate with trainees in ergonomics, occupational and environmental medicine, industrial hygiene, health physics programs, Total Worker Health® on interdisciplinary research, scholarly projects, and in-depth field assessments at local industry sites. Trainees in this program will join a forward-thinking faculty and student cohort to address one of the most urgent challenges we face today in public health.
Program Director & Associate Directors
Miranda Dally DrPH, MS
Research Assistant Professor, Climate & Worker Health Targeted Research Training Director
- Center for Health, Work & Environment
- Department of Environmental & Occupational Health
Miranda Dally, MS is a research assistant professor at the Colorado School of Public Health’s Center for Health, Work & Environment and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. Growing up in the agricultural communities in Northern California, she has seen firsthand the effect climate change has on workers and their communities. As a co-founder of the Climate, Work & Health Initiative she is dedicated to keeping workers and their families safe, healthy, and productive by preventing and reducing health impacts from the changing climate. Her research examines the ways that changing occupational hazards due to climate change affect agricultural worker health and wellbeing, specifically how increases in occupational heat exposure lead to injury, illness, and impact the ability to work. She takes this research into practice by working closely with employees and their employers on ways to protect and sustain the health of workers who are responsible for the global food supply.
Areas of Expertise
- Climate Change
- Heat Exposure
- Occupational Injury
- Occupational Illness
- Total Worker Health
Education, Licensure & Certifications
- MS Biostatistics, University of Colorado, 2015
- BA Statistics, University of California, Berekely, 2009
Who should apply?
Current doctoral students in any year of their program from the following fields:
- Climate scientists
- Epidemiologists
- Statisticians
- Occupational safety and health experts
- Psychologists
- Public health professionals
- Laboratory researchers
Curriculum
Stipend
| PG Year | Stipend 2023-2024 |
| 1 | $2,196 |
| 2 | $2,196 |
*NRSA will publish new stipend amounts for the upcoming year in June 2023.
Frequently asked questions
Faculty
University of Colorado
- John Adgate, PhD, MSPH | Professor, EOH
- Alison Bauer, PhD | Associate Professor, EOH
- Jared Brown, PhD | Professor, Toxicology
- Jaime Butler-Dawson, PhD, MPH | Assistant Professor, EOH
- Elizabeth Carlton, PhD, MPH | Associate Professor, EOH
- James Crooks, PhD | Clinical Associate Professor, Epidemiology
- Kristopher Karnauskas, PhD | Associate Professor, EOH
- Liliana Tenney, DrPH | Assistant Professor, EOH
- Courtney Welton-Mitchell, PhD | Assistant Professor, EOH
Colorado State University
- Ashley Anderson, PhD | Associate Professor, Journalism & Media Communications
- William Brazile, PhD, CIH | Associate Professor, Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences
- Ellison Carter, PhD | Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Gwenith Fisher, PhD | Associate Professor, Psychology
- Debbie Lee, PhD | Assistant Professor, Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences
- Christian L’Orange, PhD | Assistant Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Luke Montrose, PhD | Assistant Professor, Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences
- Andreas Neophytou, ScD | Assistant Professor, Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences
- David Rojas-Rueda, MD, MPH, PhD | Assistant Professor, Epidemiology
- Joshua Schaeffer, PhD, MS, CIH | Associate Professor, Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences
- Dimitris Stevis, PhD | Professor, Political Science
This program is supported by a Training Grant T42 OH009229 with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health as part of one of 18 national Education and Research Centers.