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: Sleep
Professor Steven Shea receives Outstanding Investigator Award
We are very pleased to announce that our Institute’s Director, Professor Steven A Shea, PhD, has just received a 7-year $6.5 million “Outstanding Investigator Award” from the National Heart,...
Bedrooms on 18 wheels: improving sleeping conditions for truck driving teams
Today's blog was submitted By Pete Johnson, Ph.D., MS, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington. Dr. Johnson is a member of an Oregon Healthy Workforce Center research team. The featured photo is...
Return to Work: Impacts of COVID-19 on cannabis consumption in working-age Americans
Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 20.6 million U.S. jobs were lost, putting the unemployment rate on par with the Great Depression. For those able to retain their positions, working...
Circadian rhythms and athletes’ performance
Last Friday, Institute sleep scientist, Dr. Andrew McHill, Ph.D., published a new study in Scientific Reports titled, Utilizing the National Basketball's COVID-19 restart "bubble " to uncover the...
Recap: Fatigue at work
Late last winter – when we didn't truly know what was in front of us–I had the opportunity to trade notes with Jeffrey Dalto of Convergence Training. I was fresh from teaching several classes on...
Thanking our veterans
We wanted to send a big thank you to our military Veterans and those within our Institute that have served. We appreciate their service to this country and also their hard work in occupational health...
Alzheimer’s, sleep disruption and fruit flies
We congratulate Institute Associate Professor Doris Kretzschmar, Ph.D., upon her recently awarded National Institute of Aging R01 grant titled Connecting nuclear functions of Tau with pathology in...
Sleep and Circadian Study: Disparity in Prevalence of Hypertension Between Black and White Americans
Blog submitted by: Shelby Watkins, M.P.H, Research Associate and Latroy Robinson, B.S., Research Assistant The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that African Americans are 40%...
As the web turns
If you have a particularly good memory, you might remember when we updated you on our transition from what had been known as CROETweb to our OccHealthSci Resource Directory. Roughly four years ago we...