Talking about genomics
On Friday March 6, 2015, approximately 170 scientists gathered at OHSU for a symposium on Genomic Instability. The event was co-sponsored by the Oregon Institute for Occupational Health...
Posts by Dede Montgomery
GOSH 2015: A success
Congratulations to ASSE Columbia Willamette Chapter, Oregon OSHA, and all of the sponsors, exhibitors and presenters of the Oregon Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Conference of...
Mentoring Students in Science
Congratulations to Grant Thomas, of the Oregon Episcopal School. Grant recently presented the results of his study entitled “Using Drosophila melanogaster to Assess the Pathogenic Characteristics...
What do we do for fun?
Our last blog on the importance of disengaging outside of work seemed to strike a chord with many of us. What do our researchers and partners do outside of work? See if you can locate our Director,...
Do you work too much?
I often overhear conversations on my daily tram commute that relate in some way to the mission of our Institute and the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center. Today was no different as I heard two...
Check out ASSE’s Health and Wellness Branch
So many people are talking about health and wellness. We are flooded with news about why and how to address health at work. More than ever, the networking and connections within and between our...
Hearts at work
February is heart health month. I've been thinking a lot about the heart-health-and-work connection while noticing how many of the reported workplace fatalities in Oregon were caused by heart attack,...
OR-FACE presents at logging and construction safety events
Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE) presented at the January meetings of the Washington Contract Loggers Association (WCLA) and the Portland Construction Safety Summit...
Heading our Way: GOSH 2015
Every two years Portland hosts the Oregon Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Conference. We have found GOSH to be the best value-packed opportunity to support professional development; mentor...
Pursuing Total Worker Health at OHSU
Our friends and partners know that here at Occupational Health Sciences, and at the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC), we have been talking about Total Worker HealthTM (TWH) for some time....