OHWC gets renewed for 5 more years!
The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) is celebrating! Led by Co-Directors Leslie Hammer, PhD and Ryan Olson, PhD, and founded in 2011 by Kent Anger, PhD, our center has been successfully...
Category: Info
Best of COVID Conversations
Many of you joined our COVID Conversations live, or watched the recordings later. Between February and June of this year, we created ten conversations between industrial hygienists, safety and health...
Staff Spotlight: Nicole Chaudhary
Each month, we feature an Institute Staff member and share with the community a behind-the-scenes through a question and answer session to learn more about their research areas, career path and...
Oregon offers employer resources to address emergency wildfire smoke rule
Oregon OSHA’s new emergency rule applies to employers whose employees are – or will be – exposed to wildfire smoke where the ambient fine particulate (also known as PM2.5) air concentration is...
2021 Summer interns virtual poster presentation
We wanted to send our appreciation to each of our 2021 Summer Interns as they finish the final week of their internship. Their hard work and contributions to science have not gone unnoticed. We also...
CDC NIOSH IPA appointment
Last September, Institute Senior Research Associate and Oregon Healthy Workforce Center Outreach Co-Principal Investigator, Dede Montgomery was appointed to the CDC's National Institute for...
Happy 50th to NIOSH! We’re celebrating on our podcast.
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) turns 50 this year. NIOSH was created in 1970 as part of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, with a mission to ensure...
Research Staff Spotlight: Shelby Watkins
For our May 2021 “Staff Spotlight”, we interviewed Shelby Watkins, M.P.H., C.P.H. (she/her), a research associate in the Nicole Bowles, Ph.D. Lab. Each month, we feature an Institute Staff...
Research Staff Spotlight: Omar Ordaz
The "Institute's Staff Spotlight" is new for 2021. Each month, we will feature an Institute Staff member and share with the community a behind the scenes through a question and answer session to...
Spring Symposium: Adapting to Climate Change for Worker Safety, Health and Well-being
Registration for our 2021 Spring Symposium on Friday, May 21st from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM PT is now open. The symposium will be covering the topic, Adapting to Climate Change for Worker Safety, Health...