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The HSPH Center for Work, Health, and Well-being hosts a regular seminar series as a means of increasing dialogue across disciplines and furthering our shared vision of worker health.
Upcoming Seminars
October 7–11, 2013 • Boston, MA
Ergonomics and Human Factors: Strategic Solutions for Workplace Safety and Health
Human Factors and Ergonomics Program Overview
Participants in this course will gain the tools necessary to create effective, comprehensive, and strategic solutions to workplace ergonomic issues. With its focus on tools, Ergonomics and Human Factors will help participants initiate and improve their organizations’ ergonomics programs.
Workshops, case studies, and team exercises offer the opportunity to learn and apply skills in a multidisciplinary, team-oriented environment.
This program provides a unique perspective on ergonomics and human factors in industry, ranging from musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) of the low back and manual materials handling to human error and organizational factors. Participants will learn to analyze and control risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders, integrate employees with MSDs into the workplace, and learn to design occupational ergonomics programs for their benefit, and hear the latest research for these solutions.
Alumni of this program, including ergonomists, industrial hygienists, and safety engineers, have found that the broad curriculum provides a unique opportunity to explore a comprehensive approach to workplace safety and health.
To learn more about this program, please click here
January 27–29, 2014 • Boston, MA
Work, Health, and Well-Being: Integrating Wellness and Occupational Health and Safety in the Workplace
Nicolaas Pronk, PhD, FACSM
Adjunct Professor of Society, Human Development and Health
Human Development and Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Vice President and Health Science Officer for JourneyWell
HealthPartners
Glorian Sorensen, PhD, MPH
Professor of Society, Human Development and Health
Human Development and Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Director
Center for Community-Based Research
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Evaluate, Translate, and Implement Occupational Health and Safety Programs
Corporate health, safety, and wellness programs have traditionally existed in silos and largely operated independently. This lack of integration prevents optimal resource use and limits the overall effectiveness of occupational health and safety programs. Despite the recent recognition of the potential of integrated workplace health protection and promotion to reduce employee-related costs, few companies are implementing effective integrated worker health programs.
This program addresses the need to consolidate these distinct, siloed, occupational health and safety policies. Participants learn to integrate occupational health, safety, and wellness into a comprehensive program that enhances the overall health and wellbeing of the workforce and reduces work-related injuries and illnesses. This program will provide participants with the skills needed for:
Evaluating worksite and worker health risks
Translating occupational health and safety research into practice
Measuring outcomes and evaluating health and safety programs, and
Assessing the financial impact of workplace health programs
To learn more about this program, please click here
If you wish to be added to the distribution list for the seminar series and upcoming workshops, contact Lorraine Wallace at
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Past Seminars
March 25, 2013
Risks of Needlesticks and Other Blood Exposures Among Home Healthcare Nurses and Aides
Margaret Quinn, ScD, CIH
Professor, Department of Work Environment
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Harvard School of Public Health - NIOSH Education and Research Center
Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program
Monday Seminar Series
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to 1) discuss the occupational safety hazards experienced by home healthcare workers; 2) describe research methods used to quantify the risks of blood exposures, including sharps injuries; 3) identify major risk factors for blood exposures, including sharps injuries, in the home healthcare environment; and 4) compare the risks of sharps injuries among home healthcare nurses with risks estimated for nurses working in hospitals.
September 17 – 20, 2012
Work, Health, and Well-being: Strategic Solutions for Integrating Wellness and Occupational Safety and Health in the Workplace
Nicolaas Pronk, PhD, FACSM
Adjunct Professor of Society, Human Development and Health
Human Development and Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Vice President and Health Science Officer for JourneyWell
HealthPartners
Glorian Sorensen, PhD, MPH
Professor of Society, Human Development and Health
Human Development and Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Director
Center for Community-Based Research
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
This program is designed to provide participants with the skills necessary to evaluate the effectiveness of workplace health strategies, translate this evidence into practice, and implement these strategies to design health promotion and occupational health and safety programs. This program will provide participants with the skills needed for:
- Evaluating worksite and worker health risks
- Translating workplace wellness research into practice
- Measuring outcomes and evaluating occupational health and safety programs, and
- Assessing the financial impact of workplace health programs
To learn more about this program, please visit https://ccpe.sph.harvard.edu/Workplac-Health
April 3rd 2012
Using Work Outcomes in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Health-Related Work Role Functioning vs. Work AbilityBenjamin C. Amick III, PhD
Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to:
1) describe the difference between
health-related work role functioning and work ability;
2) describe how to use healthrelated
work role functioning in evaluation of health science interventions; and
3) describe how to evaluate the utility of a lost productivity measure.
Download the presentation slideshow here
View the video recording with slideshow here
November 7, 2011
In Pursuit of Total Worker Health (TM)
Anita L. Schill, PhD, MPH, MA
Senior Science Advisor
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
L. Casey Chosewood, MD
Senior Medical Officer for Total Worker Health™
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Learning Objectives:
1. describe the changing demographic factors impacting US workers today as they relate to their health, safety, and well-being;
2. explain how chronic health conditions, including obesity, are impacting the total health of workers; and
3. describe the main focus and components of the NIOSH Total Worker Health™ program.
March 21, 2011
Work Organization, Socioeconomic Position, and Cardiovascular Disease
Paul Landsbergis, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
State University of New York-Downstate School of Public Health
Learning Objectives
1. To describe associations between work organization stressors, socioeconomic position and risk of cardiovascular disease.
2. To discuss intervention studies and strategies to reduce the risk of work-related cardiovascular disease.
November 15, 2010
Occupational Health Assessment and Intervention among Distributed Workforces in Hospital and Small Business Settings
Karen Hopcia, SD, APRN-BC
Project Director
Partners HealthCare Occupational Health Services
Harvard School of Public Health Center for Work, Health, and Well-being
Learning Objectives
1. List the attributes of a distributed workforce.
2. Explain the challenges of implementing occupational intervention in distributive workforces in the small business and hospital setting.
3. Describe select interventions and outcomes at the small business and hospital setting.
September 20, 2010
Workplace Health Promotion for a Mobile Workforce: An Initiative of the National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Health Plan
Laura Welch, MD
Medical Director
CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training
Learning Objectives
1. Describe the patterns of chronic medical conditions in workers in mobile workforces (e.g., construction workers).
2. Describe ways to provide workplace-based health improvement programs for workers without a fixed work location.
3. Explain effective strategies for integration of health promotion and health protection for groups of workers in these mobile workforces.
May 10, 2010
Assessing General Contractor Adherence to Owner-Mandated Safety Program Requirements: Development of an Evaluation Tool
Julia Roos, BSE
MS2 Degree Candidate
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Learning Objectives
1. Explain how sub-contractor safety performance is evaluated on a construction site.
2. List steps for developing a general contractor safety program evaluation tool.
3. Describe key components of feedback to a general contractor following an evaluation.
Development of an Observational Walkthrough Tool to Evaluate Health Care Worker Safety within a Patient Care Unit
Tawan Udtamadilok
MS2 Degree Candidate
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Learning Objectives
1. Identify potential sources of injury in a patient care unit.
2. Identify common operational areas across patient care units.
March 29, 2010
Leading Indicators of Health and Safety Performance: Why We Need to Look Up, Not Down!
Benjamin C. Amick III, PhD
Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Epidemiology
University of Texas School of Public Health
Scientific Director and Senior Scientist
Institute for Work and Health
Learning Objectives
1. Describe the current evidence regarding the key approaches to measuring organizational and management practices.
2. Explain how organizational and management practices may: (a) impact health, (b) reduce lost productivity, (c) prevent injuries and illnesses, and/or (d) manage injuries and illnesses.
3. Describe the current evidence regarding the role of organizational policies in the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders.
4. Describe the current evidence regarding the role of organizational practices in the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders.
October 30, 2009
Health as a Strategic Corporate Priority
Nicolaas P. Pronk, PhD, FACSM
Vice President, Health Management, HealthPartners
Health Science Officer, JourneyWell
Senior Research Investigator, HealthPartners Research Foundation
Learning Objectives
1. Discuss the notion of an optimal lifestyle metric (OLM) in the context of health and disease prevention.
2. List the components of an OLM.
3. Describe how OLM relates to incidence of new disease.
4. Describe how OLM affects overall health.
5. Describe how OLM affects medical care costs.
6. Describe how OLM affects worker productivity.
May 15, 2009
Evidence-based Interventions in Occupational Settings: Design of the RCT Study
David M. Rempel, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California at San Francisco
Professor of Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley
Learning Objectives
1. Describe 3 randomized controlled study designs for evaluating workplace interventions for preventing upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders.
2. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these study designs related to occupational safety and health RCTs.
3. Describe methods for rating quality of workplace RCT studies.
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