The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health is the United States federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness. NIOSH is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Despite its name,it is not part of either the National Institutes of Health nor OSHA. Its current director is John Howard.
Alice Hamilton was an American physician,research scientist,and author. She was a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is the public health graduate school of Johns Hopkins University,a private research university in Baltimore,Maryland. As the second independent,degree-granting institution for research in epidemiology and training in public health,and the largest public health training facility in the United States,the school is ranked first in public health in the U.S. News &World Report rankings and has held that ranking since 1994. The school is ranked second for public health in the world by the Shanghai Rankings.
David Platt Rall was a cancer specialist and a leader in environmental health studies,whose work in environmental health helped turn it into a scientific discipline. Rall also advanced public health and prevention. He directed the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences from 1971 to 1990,year in which he retired. His work on toxicology and carcinogenesis was recognized by his appointment as the first director of the National Toxicology Program in 1978. He held the rank of Assistant Surgeon General in the United States Public Health Service. He also chaired the World Health Organization's Program on Chemical Safety.
Texas A&M Health,also known as Texas A&M University Health,and Texas A&M University Health Science Center,is the medical education component of Texas A&M University,and offers health professions research,education and patient care in dentistry,medicine,nursing,biomedical sciences,public health,and pharmacy on its several campuses. One of the fastest-growing academic health centers in the nation,Texas A&M Health encompasses six schools and numerous centers and institutes. It was established in 1999 as an independent institution of the Texas A&M University System and received accreditation in December 2002 from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award baccalaureate,master's,doctoral and professional degrees. The institution and its colleges merged with Texas A&M University on July 12,2013.
Occupational medicine,previously called industrial medicine,is the branch of medicine which is concerned with the maintenance of health in the workplace,including prevention and treatment of diseases and injuries,with secondary objectives of maintaining and increasing productivity and social adjustment in the workplace.
The UCLA Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health is the graduate school of public health at UCLA,and is located within the Center for Health Sciences building on UCLA's campus in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles,California. The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has 690 students representing 25 countries,more than 11,000 alumni and 247 faculty,70 of whom are full-time.
The National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) is a partnership program developed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The program was founded in 1996 to provide a framework for research collaborations among universities,large and small businesses,professional societies,government agencies,and worker organizations. Together these parties identify issues in the field of workplace safety and health that require immediate attention based on the number of workers affected,the seriousness of the hazard,and the likelihood that new safety information and approaches can effect a change.
Marcus Malvin Key was a public health administrator and practitioner who served as the first director for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in the U.S. government.
John F. (Jack) Finklea was a physician,professor,researcher,and public health administrator notable for his leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Environmental Research and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
John Donald Millar was a physician and public health administrator who rose to prominence as the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health from 1981 through 1993.
John Jackson Howard is an American physician,professor,and public health administrator who served a 6-year term as the director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and was appointed to be a special coordinator to respond to the health effects of the September 11 attacks. In this role,Howard advocated for rescue workers,introducing a program to provide screening,medical exams,and treatment for them. In 2009,Howard was again appointed as director of NIOSH and as World Trade Center Programs coordinator for HHS. In 2011,Howard became the Administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program. In 2016,he became the first person to be appointed to a third 6-year term as NIOSH director,and was reappointed to a fourth term in 2021.
NIOSH Education and Research Centers are multidisciplinary centers supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health for education and research in the field of occupational health. Through the centers,NIOSH supports academic degree programs,research,continuing education,and outreach. The ERCs,distributed in regions across the United States,establish academic,labor,and industry research partnerships. The research conducted at the centers is related to the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) established by NIOSH.
Catherine D. DeAngelis is the first woman and the first pediatrician to become editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She has also edited several additional medical journals. Before assuming the editor's position at JAMA in 2000,DeAngelis was a professor and Vice Dean of Faculty at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Total Worker Health is a trademarked strategy defined as policies,programs,and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness prevention efforts to advance worker well-being. It was conceived and is funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Total Worker Health is tested and developed in six Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health in the United States.
Linda P. Fried is an American geriatrician and epidemiologist,who is also the first female Dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Her research career is focused on frailty,healthy aging,and how society can successfully transition to benefit from an aging population.
Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences is a research institute based at Oregon Health &Science University,in Portland. The Institute's mission is to promote health,and prevent disease and disability among working Oregonians and their families during their employment years and through retirement. It does this through basic and applied research,outreach and education.
Marie Clare McCormick is an American pediatrician and Sumner and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston,Massachusetts. She also holds an appointment as professor of pediatrics in the Harvard Medical School. In addition,she is the senior associate for academic affairs in the department of neonatology at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Her research primarily focused on epidemiology and health services,particularly in relation to infant mortality and the outcomes of very low birthweight (VLBW) and otherwise high-risk neonates.
Mark Richard Cullen is a physician,scholar,and population health scientist known for his work in occupational medicine. As a professor at Yale and later Stanford University,his research focused on the social,environmental,behavioral and bio-medical determinants of morbidity and mortality in adults,with special emphasis on the role of workplace’in such matters.
