Oregon Healthy Workforce Center’s FY23 report is out!
Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) is excited to announce our FY23 annual report. We invite you to read about our accomplishments and activities related to our worker safety, health, and...
Category: Conference
Postdoctoral Scholar Leandro Brito Featured at the American Physiology Summit Press Conference
Dr. Leandro Brito, a postdoc at the Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at OHSU, presented his findings regarding relationships between evening exercise and hypertension at the Virtual Press...
Understanding Resilience and Micro-aggressions with Dr. Danielle King
In early December, the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences and Portland State University hosted their annual Fall Symposium, Supporting a Diverse Workforce in the Face of Ongoing...
Increasing Construction Safety
On January 31, 2023, Rachel Madjlesi, Fatality Investigator, Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE) and Amy Spring, Outreach Manager, represented the Institute and the OR-FACE...
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion: Highlighting efforts at home and from our partners
Many issues that significantly impact our society often take a while to reach a tipping point. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) is one such issue. In light of a greater acknowledgement in recent...
Listen to the “Great Resignation” podcast episode
In our latest podcast episode, we highlight a 2022 Spring Symposium talk by keynote speaker, Dr. Berrin Erdogan on topic, "The Great Resignation: Challenges, opportunities and implications for...
OHWC’s FY22 report is out!
Happy Thanksgiving Week to our readers! We at the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) are excited to announce our FY22 annual report. In this report, we highlight OHWC research, outreach,...
Northwest Occupational Health Conference 2022 Recap
Blog submitted by Jackie Boyd, Research Project Coordinator I was able to attend the Northwest Occupational Health Conference (NOHC) in Kennewick, Washington hosted by the Pacific Northwest...
Connecting at the Total Worker Health® Symposium
What a week it has been! Members of the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center join other proponents of the Total Worker Health® Approach this week at the National Institutes of Health to further...
Total Worker Health® practitioner education
With continued interest in learning more about the Total Worker Health® Approach, particularly among occupational safety, health and well-being professionals and practitioners, we want to be...