Occupational Health

Within the field of Occupational Health, research at our college has a focus on exposure and understanding the effects and potential health risks for workers. This research also focuses on reducing exposures and improving industry trainings to combat known health hazards within specific industries.

Research Projects in Occupational Health

Women Fire Fighters Study: Stress, Cancer Risk and Reproductive Toxicity

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Leslie Farland

Graduate Industrial Hygiene Program Grant, University of Arizona

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin

Western Mining Safety and Health Training Resource Center: An Integrated Approach

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Rustin Reed, Leonard D. Brown

Inhaled Environmental Exposures and Anti-mullerian Hormone Levels, a Marker of Reproductive Health

Researchers

Leslie Farland

The Firefighter Multicenter Cancer Cohort Study: Framework Development and Testing

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin, Jin Zhou, Elizabeth Jacobs, Sally Littau

An Online Community Framework to Improve Instructional Design and Track Training Outcomes for Contractors and Small Mine Operators

Researchers

Leonard D. Brown

Online Community Framework: Improving Evaluation of Training and Assessment of Health and Safety Outcomes for Contractors and Small Mine Operators

Researchers

Leonard D. Brown

Safety & Health Analytics Research Projects (SHARP) Group

Researchers

Leonard D. Brown

El Trabajo no te Debe Danar: Reduction of Hazardous Exposures in Small Businesses through a Community Health Worker Intervention

Researchers

Paloma Beamer, Scott Carvajal, Melanie Bell

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Firefighter Exposures and Toxicity

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Jin Zhou

Alternative Fuel Use to Reduce Diesel Emissions Exposure and Toxicity

Researchers

Jeff Burgess

Assessment of the Predicted Heat Strain Model 2018-2020 Physiologic Measures of Heat Stress in Underground Mining

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Rustin Reed, Philip Harber

Testing the Effects of Shift Demands on Mood, Sedentary Activity, and Caffeine Intake in 911 Telecommunications

Researchers

Patricia Haynes

Cancer Prevention in the Fire Service: Exposure Assessment, Toxic Effects and Risk Management

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin, Jin Zhou, Elizabeth Jacobs

Arizona’s Pesticide Use Registry and Vital Statistics Birth Certificates: A Rich Potential Resource for Studies of Associations Between Exposure to Pesticides and Health Outcomes among Farmworkers

Researchers

Paloma Beamer, Melissa Furlong

Health and Wellness of Women Firefighters

Researchers

Jeff Burgess

Analysis of Continuous Time Series Measurements

Researchers

Risk Management Interventions to Reduce Vehicle-Related Incidents and Fatalities

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Chengcheng Hu, Stephanie Griffin

Overhaul Phase III - Respiratory Protection of Firefighter Live-fire Field Assessment of CBRN Canisters during Firefighter Overhaul

Researchers

Stephanie Griffin

An Observational Study of the Effect of Heat Stress on Pesticide Exposure in Migrant Farmworkers in Sonora, Mexico

Researchers

Paloma Beamer

Fulbright-Schuman European Union Affairs Program

Researchers

Jeff Burgess

Implementation of Risk Management Programs: Identification of Best Practices to Reduce Injuries and Maximize Economic Benefits.

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin

Comparison of Diesel and Biodiesel Emissions and Health Effects in Underground Mining

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Chengcheng Hu

The Exposure Science and Risk Assessment Center (ESRAC)

Researchers

Mary Kay O'Rourke, Kelly Reynolds, Leslie Dennis

Implementing Risk Management Strategies to Prevent Injuries Among Firefighters

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin, Chengcheng Hu

Ind. Funded - Economics of Injury in Mining - Newmont Mining

Researchers

Respirator User Learning Effectiveness study /Respirator Use By Impaired Workers

Researchers

Philip Harber

Arizona NP, CNM, and NP Healthcare Workforce

Researchers

Transfer and Control of Infectious Microbes in Emergency Vehicles

Researchers

Kelly Reynolds

NIOSH NPPTL BAA - Investigating Respiratory Protection for Firefighters Assessment of CBRN Canisters during Firefighter Overhaul

Researchers

Stephanie Griffin

Firefighter Statin Trial: Reducing Atherosclerotic Disease and Risk Factors

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Sally Littau, Chengcheng Hu

NIOSH ERC Training Grant - Investigating Occupational Respiratory Risk of Nanoparticle Exposures through Epithelial Cell Toxicity: Field and Laboratory

Researchers

R0-1 Comparison of Diesel to Bio-diesel Emissions in Underground Mining

Researchers

Jeff Burgess

Impacts of Fatalities on US Coal Productivity, 1988-2010 (SFAz)

Researchers

Fireground Injuries: An International Evaluation of Causes and Best Practices

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Sally Littau

Molecular epidemiology of C. difficile food contamination: links to human CDAC

Researchers

Kelly Reynolds

Occupational Medicine Activities and Skills: An Empiric Study

Researchers

Philip Harber

Biodiesel Emissions in Mining

Researchers

Web-based Industrial Hygiene Resource Toolbox

Researchers

Institute for Mineral Resources - Mining Health and Safety Tech Advisory Committee

Researchers

Determination of Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighters

Researchers

Jeff Burgess, Sally Littau

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