TWH Affiliate Summit.
2023 NIOSH
Total Worker Health®
Affiliate Summit
A Virtual Event to Catalyze Conversations & Collaborations through TWH Approaches co-hosted by NIOSH and the Miami Occupational Research Group, A NIOSH TWH Affiliate
Monday,
NOV 6
Zoom Virtual
Format
The Speakers
John Howard
Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Dr. John Howard serves as the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the Administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C. He first served as Director of NIOSH from 2002 through 2008, and again from 2009 to 2015. He was re-appointed to a third six-year term in 2015 and a fourth six-year term in 2021. Prior to his appointment as Director of NIOSH, Dr. Howard served as Chief of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health in the California Department of Industrial Relations, Labor and Workforce Development Agency, from 1991 through 2002.
Casey Chosewood
Director, Office for Total Worker Health, NIOSH at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. L. Casey Chosewood is currently the Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives, and Director of the Office for Total Worker Health® at the NIOSH. In this role, he promotes the protection and improvement of the safety, health and well-being of workers through research, intervention development, and partnerships.
Richard Rabin
Trainer & Technical Consultant- Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health
Richard Rabin has been a volunteer with MassCOSH for over 30 years. He directed the Occupational Lead Poisoning Registry at the Massachusetts Department of Labor for over 20 years. He has published several articles on both child and adult lead poisoning. He also initiated the first lawsuit against the lead paint industry. Rick is OSHA certified and has led OSHA 10 and RRP trainings in both Spanish and English for workers in a range of industries.
Chia-Chia Chang
Partnership and New Opportunity Development Coordinator, NIOSH
Chia-Chia is the Coordinator for Partnership and New Opportunity Development for the Office of Total Worker Health at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She leads initiatives to share promising practices for integrated approaches to advance worker safety, health, and well-being and coordinates a task with RAND to conceptualize worker well-being.
Lili Tenney
Associate Director for Outreach and Programs at the Center for Health, Work & Environment
Dr. Lili Tenney is the Associate Director for Outreach and Programs at the Center for Health, Work & Environment and an assistant professor at the Colorado School of Public Health where she teaches graduate courses in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She is the co-founder and director of Health Links®. She speaks nationally on the role employers and work environments play in creating a healthier workforce.
Lee S. Newman
Physician-scientist and Public Health Educator
Dr. Newman is a physician-scientist and public health educator. He is a Distinguished University Professor for the University of Colorado in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and Department of Epidemiology. He is founding director of the Center for Health, Work and Environment, a NIOSH-funded Center of Excellence for Total Worker Health® and the Mountain & Plains Education and Research Center (MAP ERC).
Tara Haskins
Total Farmer Health Director
Dr. Tara Haskins is the Total Farmer Health Director for AgriSafe, a national agricultural health and safety nonprofit. She has 36 years of registered nursing experience, 17 years in healthcare education and is a board certified Advanced Holistic Nurse. In addition to overseeing partnerships to support AgriSafe’s Total Farmer Health initiatives, she is responsible for AgriSafe’s mental health programming, lead for FarmResponse training, and quality assurance for the AgriStress Helpline, the only 24/7 suicide crisis/resource line for the agricultural community currently in eight states.
Peter Schnall
Co-Director, Healthy Work Campaign
Dr. Peter Schnall is an Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Irvine. He received his training as a medical doctor from Stanford University, his Medical Residency at AECOM as well an MPH on a 3-year NIHLBI fellowship to study epidemiology at the Colombia School of Public Health. For 40 years, Dr. Schnall has conducted research into the causes of essential hypertension. Now he is the Co-Director of the Healthy Work Campaign to share with the public our understanding of chronic illness's social causes, including work factors.
Christian B. Rathke
Director, Total Worker Health (TWH) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Christian Rathke CAPT/USPHS serves as the Director of the NESDIS TWH Program, which aims to protect the physical and mental health of the workforce and advance their well-being by transforming systems-level organizational approaches to daily work to create sustained measurable health outcomes. He leads initiatives and research focused on root causes of complex multi-layered issues like burnout at multiple levels of the federal workforce.
Jason McInnis
Canadian Director – Health and Safety for the Boilermakers International Union
Jason McInnis has over 27 years of workplace health and safety experience in a cross-section of industries and regulatory jurisdictions. Since 2005, Mr. McInnis has served as the Canadian Director – Health and Safety for the Boilermakers International union, which represents 50,000 skilled tradespeople in the heavy construction, shipbuilding, industrial and related industries in the United States and Canada. Throughout his career, Mr. McInnis has held a wide range of professional association volunteer positions, including past president of the Canadian Registration Board of Occupational Hygienists, past Canadian representative on the International Occupational Hygiene Association, active member through various AIHA volunteer positions, and health and safety technical standards committees.
Laura Linnan
Director, NIOSH-funded Carolina Center for Healthy Work Design and Worker Well-Being
Dr. Linnan is currently the Senior Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs, and Professor of Health Behavior at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Linnan has more than 35 years of experience as a public health practitioner and applied researcher who has delivered and rigorously evaluated multi-level chronic disease prevention interventions in schools, beauty salons/barbershops, childcare settings, faith-based organizations, public libraries and worksites. As director of the NIOSH-funded Carolina Center for Healthy Work Design and Worker Well-Being, Dr. Linnan is responsible for establishing the overall vision, strategic plan and contributes to the research and outreach activities of the Center.
Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Quirós-Alcalá is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. As an exposure scientist and environmental epidemiologist, Dr. Quirós-Alcalá conducts translational exposure science research to better understand exposure-response relationships. Her research focuses on characterizing environmental exposures to endocrine disrupting agents and examining their potential health risks on highly vulnerable, low-income and marginalized populations historically underrepresented and understudied in public health research, including occupational populations, pregnant women and women of reproductive age, and children.
Natasha Schaefer Solle
Research Assistant Professor | Co-Deputy Director, Firefighter Cancer Initiative, University of Miami
Dr. Natasha Schaefer Solle is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and Public Health Sciences at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (SCCC). She serves as the co-Deputy Director of the Firefighter Cancer Initiative (FCI), a multi-faceted project funded by the state of Florida to study firefighters’ exposure to carcinogens, examine their cancer risk, and develop methods of education about prevention and early detection, leading the firefighter cancer prevention, education, and survivorship program.
Alberto Caban-Martinez
Associate Vice Provost for Research Integrity, Regulatory Affairs and Assessment | MD-MPH Program Deputy Director | Vice-Chair for Research & Associate Professor | Deputy Director, Firefighter Cancer Initiative, University of Miami
Dr. Alberto Caban-Martinez is a board-certified physician-scientist, Associate Professor (tenured) of Public Health Sciences, Deputy Director of the MD-MPH Program, and Associate Provost for Regulatory Affairs, Assessment and Research Integrity at the University of Miami. He serves as the Deputy Director of the Firefighter Cancer Initiative at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center and Co-Director and Principal Investigator of the FEMA-funded Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study, a national epidemiologic firefighter cohort study that includes under-represented firefighter subgroups such as arson investigators, firefighter trainers/instructors, wildland-urban interface, and volunteer firefighters.
Agenda
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6 | Eastern Standard Time
1:00 PM
Welcome & Introductions
Dr. Alberto Caban-Martinez
NIOSH Updates on TWH Affiliate Program
Chia-Chia Chang
2:00
PM
TWH Affiliate Presentations:
AgriSafe Network, Dr. Tara Haskins
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Canada, Jason McInnis
Center for Social Epidemiology’s Healthy Work Campaign, Dr. Peter Schnall
University of Miami/FCI, Drs. Caban-Martinez & Solle
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Captain Christian Rathke
Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, Richard Rabin
Panel of TWH Centers- Collaborating with Affiliates
Carolina Center for Healthy Work Design & Worker Well-Being, Dr. Laura Linnan
Johns Hopkins Poe Mental Health Center, Dr. Lesliam Quiros-Alcala
3:00
PM
Messages from Drs. John Howard and Casey Chosewood
Small Group Breakout Sessions
4:00 PM
Recap from small groups
Q & A Session
Society for TWH Presentation:
Dr. Liliana Tenney | Dr. Lee Newman
5:00
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Virtual Summit
hosted by the Miami Occupational Research Group at the University of Miami
1120 NW. 14th Street, Suite #1035
Miami, Florida 33136
The 2023 NIOSH Total Worker Health Affiliate® Summit on Monday, November 6, 2023, 1-5pm EST will bring together TWH affiliate groups to catalyze and collaborate on TWH approaches.
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