# Development of a Region-Specific JEM for Exposure Surveillance

> **NIH ALLCDC K01** · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $107,999

## Abstract

Project Summary
 Occupational exposure surveillance is necessary for the identification of worker populations at risk of
developing occupational disease and the prioritization of mitigation efforts but is largely absent from current US
national occupational health surveillance systems. There is an urgent and unmet need for the development of
surveillance methods and systems to facilitate the examination of occupational exposure trends in the US. The
overall objective of the proposed study is to construct general-population job-exposure matrices (JEMs) for
chemical hazards across industries in Michigan and Federal Region 5 and to assess exposure and
overexposure trends and prevalence for single and mixed hazards. Aim 1 will involve the construction of these
JEMs and the modeling of multiple indices of exposure as well as the trends in exposures over time across
industries. Aim 2 will group these exposures according to shared adverse health effects and will quantify the
potential for mixed exposures. Aim 3 will estimate the prevalence of exposures and overexposures across
hazards and health effect groupings in Michigan and Region 5. The results of these aims will be used to target
outreach, education, and interventions as part of an overarching occupational health surveillance program for
Michigan operated through Michigan State University (MSU) and will be shared with the Michigan Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) to aid in the prioritization of industries for compliance activities.
 This research will span NORA sectors and be relevant to the Cancer, Reproductive, Cardiovascular
and Other Disease Prevention, Immune, Infectious, and Dermal Disease Prevention, and Respiratory Health
NORA cross-sectors. It will directly address NIOSH strategic and intermediate goals pertaining to exposure
surveillance as well as providing an exposure assessment tool for future epidemiological studies supporting
NIOSH goals relating to the characterization of relationships between exposures and adverse health
outcomes. The project aligns with the NIOSH Research to Practice (r2P) approach, as the outcomes will be
shared directly with MIOSHA and employer/employee groups with whom the MSU program has relationships in
order to identify and reach at-risk worker groups for exposure mitigation.
 Through this project, Dr. Oliveri will complete a plan for career development that will involve a
combination of mentorship from Drs. Kenneth Rosenman at MSU and Richard Neitzel at the University of
Michigan School of Public Health (UMSPH), experiential learning, and formal coursework. This plan will add to
Dr. Oliveri’s experience and capabilities regarding exposure analysis and JEM construction, occupational
health surveillance, occupational epidemiology, and advanced statistical techniques. The MSU Division of
Occupational and Environmental Medicine and UMSPH Departments of Environmental Health Sciences and
Epidemiology will provide Dr. Oliveri with the resour...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10213360
- **Project number:** 1K01OH012011-01A1
- **Recipient organization:** MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Anthony Oliveri
- **Activity code:** K01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $107,999
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-09-01 → 2024-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10213360

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10213360, Development of a Region-Specific JEM for Exposure Surveillance (1K01OH012011-01A1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10213360. Licensed CC0.

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