Program
Goals & Objectives:
The Harvard Occupational
Injury Prevention Training Program meets the need for the development
of occupational injury research expertise to examine and prevent workplace
injuries. The new program incorporates a unified public health approach
to teaching and research of work-related injuries through the development
of occupational safety engineering and science and occupational injury
epidemiology. The program prepares researchers at the doctoral level
to design and conduct studies that identify and evaluate risk factors,
intervene and reduce exposure to risk, and manage and develop programs
and policies to prevent work-related injuries. In addition, this program
builds on a growing, credentialed and diverse collaborative research
community, research and academic organizations, world-class occupational
safety and health researchers, and students. This community provides
a rich forum for the discussion of key and emergent issues in occupational
injury and for the future growth and development of occupational injury
prevention research.
Goals
and Objectives:
1. To produce the next generation
of qualified researchers with the multidisciplinary skills and experience
necessary to design and conduct studies in order to understand the etiology
and prevention of occupational injury.
2. To provide interdisciplinary-training
for future researchers and professionals with traditional disciplinary
backgrounds to expand the breadth and depth of their knowledge within
in the public health framework. This approach emphasizes prevention
through:
a. Identifying and evaluating
risks for injury in the workplace,
b. Intervening and reducing risks with the development of administrative
and engineering controls in the design of workplace environments,
and
c. Managing and developing policies and programs to prevent workplace
acute and chronic injuries as well as the rehabilitation and return
to work of those injured.
