• Individuals with a background in health and social-behavioral sciences who are interested in how health care rules, regulatory policy, or insurance schemes affect the working population, the delivery of care, and the cost of care.
  
• Occupational health and safety specialists who want to study health and safety management in the context of health care services for workers.
  
• Health care professionals who want to explore the connections between work and health in the health care management of work-related problems.
  
• Health care researchers and economists who want to adapt their experiences in health services research to lay out the questions and methods for this new field of occupational health services research.
  
• Administrators of occupational health services, workers' compensation, or union healthcare funds who seek answers to questions of access, quality, cost-effectiveness and efficiency.

• What is the quality of care for worker health problems?
• What is the workers' experience of health problems, health care, and return to work?
• Is there a difference in health care for work-related problems and non-work-related problems?
• Are health benefit levels for workers adequate?
• Do barriers to care exist -who gets what, when, and how?
• What makes for successful prevention and treatment of work-related problems?

Eileen McNeely, RNP, MS, PhD (CO-Program Director)
Instructor in Occupational Health; Co-Director, Occupational Health Services Research Component

Areas: occupational health care delivery, clinical service effectiveness, organizational aspects of occupational health, social determinants of health

David Christiani, MD, MPH, MS
Professor of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Harvard Education and Research Center; Director, Occupational Medicine Section, Massachusetts General Hospital; Director, Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Northeast Specialty Hospital; Director, Occupational Epidemiology Training Core

Areas: occupational epidemiology, occupational respiratory conditions, delivery of occupational health services, occupational health policy

Jay Himmelstein, MD, MPH
Assistant Chancellor for Health Policy, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Areas: occupational health services research and policy, general health policy and regulation, rehabilitation and disability management, quality of care and clinical services effectiveness

Ann Lawthers, ScD
Assistant Professor, UMass Center for Health Policy and Health Services Research

Areas: quality of medical care, occupational medicine performance measurement, CO-developer of national CONQUEST database for clinical performance measures

Joan Buchanan, PhD
Lecturer, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Areas: general health services research, health economics, occupational health services research, health policy and impact of managed care

Arnold Epstein, MD
John H. Foster Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University; Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health

Areas: general health policy and health services research, research methodology, access and quality of care, especially for disadvantaged populations

Jeff Katz, MS, MPH
Associate Professor of Occupational Health; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-Director, Multipurpose Arthritis Center Brighnam and Women's Hospital

Areas: outcomes evaluation for occupational musculoskeletal conditions, survey methodology and functional assessment, clinical care of occupational disorders

Ronald Kessler, PhD
Professor of Health Care Policy, Dept. of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Areas: psychiatric and mental health aspects of occupational health, relationship of health on absenteeism, low productivity, and risk of industrial accidents in the workplace

Steven Atlas, MD, MPH
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Areas: relationship between primary care and occupational health, patient/provider relationship in occupationally related medical care.

Dean Hashimoto, MD, JD
Medical Director, Occupational Health, Partners Healthcare System

Areas: clinical aspects of occupational medical care, health care delivery systems, legal and ethical aspects of occupational health care

Glenn Pransky, MD, MOH
Visiting Scholar in Occupational Health; Director, Center for Disability Research, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety

Areas: occupational medicine outcomes evaluation, occupational health services research, clinical care of occupational musculoskeletal disorders, health services for special populations

Richard Victor, PhD, JD
Executive Director, Workers' Compensation Research Institute, Cambridge, Mass.

Areas: workers' compensation research, workers' compensation administrative data analysis, economic analysis of occupational medical care under workers' compensation