Cancer Prevention Grants for Oregon’s OSH Community
The Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is offering new grants through their Community Partnership Program to aid communities statewide in better understanding...
Posts by Kent Anger
Oregon Healthy Workforce Center attends 1st NIOSH Symposium on Total Worker Health
The 1st International Symposium to Advance Total Worker HealthTM began Monday at the NIH Campus in Bethesda, MD, with nearly 400 registrants. Total Worker Health (TWH) is the integration of safety...
Occupational Health Sciences Presents to MLAC
Dr. Steve Shea (below) presented copies of the 2012-2013 biennial report of the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at Oregon Health & Science University to Oregon's Management...
AHA Worksite Wellness Summit on TWH a Success
The American Heart Association Worksite Wellness Summit was held yesterday at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland where over 300 participants learned about effective tools and techniques for...
Occupational Health Psychology Summer Institute and Corrections Meeting Held at Portland State
The Oregon Health Workforce Center (OHWC) presented the first ever National Symposium on Corrections Worker Health last Tuesday (July 15) followed by the Third Annual Occupational Health Psychology...
Health Consequences of Sedentary Work
Sit less, move often, move more was the message from Dr. Nico Pronk (HealthPartners) at the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences Symposium Thursday (June 5). He showed research evidence...
Oregon Healthy Workforce Center Partner’s Luncheon – Dissemination
The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) Partner’s Luncheon was attended by company presidents, vice presidents, directors, managers, coordinators, administrators, specialists, supervisors and...
Lunch is on us!
'Tell us your workplace problems, and we'll give you interventions/solutions' is the promise of the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center. One more thing, tell us how to get the interventions to you at our...
Oregon Healthy Workforce Center Advisory Committee Meeting Talks Future Directions
The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHSC) External Advisory Committee assessed the 6 interventions (some call these solutions) in Oregon workplaces to improve safety, health, wellness and...
Talking TWH at the WSU School of Nursing
Dr. Kent Anger, Director of the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, presented “What the Research Literature Tells us about Total Worker HealthTM (TWH) and what the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center is...