Abstract

The Illinois Center for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health exists to improve, promote, and maintain the health of workers and communities by applying innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to: 1) prepare professionals to be leaders in occupational and environmental safety and health who will direct and manage occupational and environmental safety and health programs, teach other occupational and environmental health professionals, and research issues pertinent to occupational and environmental safety and health;2) provide continuing education to occupational and environmental health and safety professionals and outreach to workers and communities to improve their knowledge, skills, and awareness of key issues in occupational and environmental safety and health, devoting special attention to the problems and needs of at risk and underserved workers and communities;3) contribute to the knowledge base in occupational and environmental safety and health by preparing doctoral students, performing faculty and student research on problems of regional, national, and global significance, and disseminating the results of their research;and 4) serve as a regional information resource. The Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Education and Research Center (Illinois ERG) is comprised of 14 programs. There are 5 continuing academic programs: Industrial Hygiene (IH), Hazardous Substances (HSAT), Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago (OM-UIC), Occupational Health Nursing (OHN), Agricultural Safety and Health (ASH-A). Two new academic programs are proposed with this application: Occupational Safety (OS) and Occupational Epidemiology (OE) There are three continuing education and outreach programs: Continuing Education in industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, occupational health nursing, and occupational safety (CE);Hazardous Substances (HST);and Agricultural Safety and Health (ASH-CE). The ERG also has Center Wide Activities including a Center Administrative Core, Outreach, Diversity Recruitment, and Interdisciplinary Coordination (CWA), as well as a Pilot Projects Research Training program (PPRT) and Targeted Research Training program (TRT).

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Type
Educational Resource Center Training Grants (T42)
Project #
5T42OH008672-07
Application #
8124971
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZOH1-EEO (50))
Program Officer
Newhall, Jim
Project Start
2005-07-01
Project End
2013-06-30
Budget Start
2011-07-01
Budget End
2012-06-30
Support Year
7
Fiscal Year
2011
Total Cost
$1,367,677
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department
Public Health & Prev Medicine
Type
Schools of Public Health
DUNS #
098987217
City
Chicago
State
IL
Country
United States
Zip Code
60612

  Publications

Jones, Rachael M; Xia, Yulin (2018) Annual Burden of Occupationally-Acquired Influenza Infections in Hospitals and Emergency Departments in the United States. Risk Anal 38:442-453
Stiehl, Emily; Forst, Linda (2018) Safety Climate Among Nontraditional Workers in Construction: Arguing for a Focus on Construed External Safety Image. New Solut 28:33-54
Liu, Yangyang; Buchanan, Susan; Anderson, Henry A et al. (2018) Association of methylmercury intake from seafood consumption and blood mercury level among the Asian and Non-Asian populations in the United States. Environ Res 160:212-222
Jones, Rachael M; Burstyn, Igor (2018) A conceptual model for take-home workplace exposures. J Occup Environ Hyg 15:D8-D11
Madrigal, Jessica M; Persky, Victoria; Pappalardo, Andrea et al. (2018) Association of heavy metals with measures of pulmonary function in children and youth: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Environ Int 121:871-878
DeFlorio-Barker, Stephanie; Wing, Coady; Jones, Rachael M et al. (2018) Estimate of incidence and cost of recreational waterborne illness on United States surface waters. Environ Health 17:3
Argos, Maria; Tong, Lin; Roy, Shantanu et al. (2018) Screening for gene-environment (G×E) interaction using omics data from exposed individuals: an application to gene-arsenic interaction. Mamm Genome 29:101-111
Topete, Liza; Forst, Linda; Zanoni, Joseph et al. (2018) Workers' compensation and the working poor: Occupational health experience among low wage workers in federally qualified health centers. Am J Ind Med 61:189-197
Delgado, Dayana A; Zhang, Chenan; Chen, Lin S et al. (2018) Genome-wide association study of telomere length among South Asians identifies a second RTEL1 association signal. J Med Genet 55:64-71
Brooks, Talia M; Friedman, Lana M; Silvis, Renee M et al. (2018) Back Pain in a Pediatric Emergency Department: Etiology and Evaluation. Pediatr Emerg Care 34:e1-e6

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