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

Firefighter Statin Trial: Reducing Atherosclerotic Disease and Risk Factors
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Sally Littau, Chengcheng Hu

Biodiesel Emissions in Mining
Researchers

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

Web-based Industrial Hygiene Resource Toolbox
Researchers

Determination of Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Firefighters
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Sally Littau

Fireground Injuries: An International Evaluation of Causes and Best Practices
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Sally Littau

Graduate Industrial Hygiene Program Grant, University of Arizona
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin

Implementing Risk Management Strategies to Prevent Injuries Among Firefighters
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin, Chengcheng Hu

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

Respirator User Learning Effectiveness study /Respirator Use By Impaired Workers
Researchers
Philip Harber

Occupational Medicine Activities and Skills: An Empiric Study
Researchers
Philip Harber

Comparison of Diesel and Biodiesel Emissions and Health Effects in Underground Mining
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Chengcheng Hu

Arizona NP, CNM, and NP Healthcare Workforce
Researchers

The Exposure Science and Risk Assessment Center (ESRAC)
Researchers
Mary Kay O'Rourke, Kelly Reynolds, Leslie Dennis

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

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

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

Risk Management Interventions to Reduce Vehicle-Related Incidents and Fatalities
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Chengcheng Hu, Stephanie Griffin

Cancer Prevention in the Fire Service: Exposure Assessment, Toxic Effects and Risk Management
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin, Jin Zhou, Elizabeth Jacobs

The Firefighter Multicenter Cancer Cohort Study: Framework Development and Testing
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin, Jin Zhou, Elizabeth Jacobs, Sally Littau

Implementation of Risk Management Programs: Identification of Best Practices to Reduce Injuries and Maximize Economic Benefits.
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Stephanie Griffin

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

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

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

Fulbright-Schuman European Union Affairs Program
Researchers
Jeff Burgess

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

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

Analysis of Continuous Time Series Measurements
Researchers

Alternative Fuel Use to Reduce Diesel Emissions Exposure and Toxicity
Researchers
Jeff Burgess

Western Mining Safety and Health Training Resource Center: An Integrated Approach
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Rustin Reed, Leonard D. Brown

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Firefighter Exposures and Toxicity
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Jin Zhou

Assessment of the Predicted Heat Strain Model 2018-2020 Physiologic Measures of Heat Stress in Underground Mining
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Rustin Reed, Philip Harber

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

Women Fire Fighters Study: Stress, Cancer Risk and Reproductive Toxicity
Researchers
Jeff Burgess, Leslie Farland

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

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