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Marcy Goldstein-Gelb, Co-Executive Director of National COSH since 2016, has been a leader and strategist in the occupational safety and health and economic justice movements for over twenty-five years.  Ms. Goldstein-Gelb also serves on the faculty of the Harvard Trade Union Program at Harvard University Law School.  Ms. Goldstein-Gelb has co-authored numerous groundbreaking studies highlighting the intersection of occupational health and safety with other urgent public health epidemics, – including…

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Harvard Chan ERC’s outreach program features innovative occupational health scholars from Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.

The NIOSH-funded Harvard Education and Research Center (ERC) announces the funding of four 2021-2022 pilot projects. The program supports small research projects conducted by student investigator trainees at the pre-doctoral or post-doctoral levels and/or by new/junior faculty investigators. Read more.

Long hours in the sun, limited shade opportunities, strenuous activity, various individual health conditions coupled with limited resources aboard a boat and certain weather conditions increase the risk for heat-related illnesses. Ann Backus, Harvard Chan Outreach Director, Harvard Chan ERC and Harvard Medical Resident James M. Medeiros, DO, MPH, present heat stroke prevention advice. Read more.      

To help understand the role of endotoxin in lung disease and other risks to textile workers, NIOSH funded the Shanghai Textile Worker Study in 1988. In celebration of Harvard’s partnership and NIOSH’s anniversary, lead researcher David C. Christiani, MD, MPH, SM, Elkan Blout Professor of Environmental Genetics, Director of the Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program and the Harvard Educational and Research Center for Occupational Safety and Health at…

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