# Expansion of the New Hampshire Occupational Health Surveillance Program VTF

> **NIH ALLCDC U60** · UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE · 2022 · $283,077

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The primary aim of this application is to expand state-based capacity for occupational health surveillance in New
Hampshire, through in-depth analysis to 1) Assess the extent and severity of workplace injuries, illnesses,
disability, deaths, hazards and exposures, 2) Address state and NIOSH program priorities for follow-up activities,
including more in-depth surveillance and outreach, prevention, and intervention focused on adult lead
surveillance, opioid overdose and suicide mortality surveillance, infectious disease health informatics, and
productive aging and work, 3) Expand surveillance activities to include analysis of unconventional data sources
from other agencies and organizations, including commercial motor vehicle crash data and Department of Labor
first reports of injury, 4) Identify workers and occupations at greatest risk through data collection of industry,
occupation, and work status through collection of industry and occupation in the Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System, death data, cancer incidence data, Youth Risk Behavior Survey, occupational poisoning
data, 5) Develop partnerships with public health and non-public health organizations to assist in developing
recommendations for workplace interventions and policies, including NH Area OSHA office, NH nonprofits and
the NH Health Department focused on prevention of substance use disorders and suicides in the workplace and
lactation support programs for breastfeeding mothers returning to work, and 6) Develop methodologies and
capacity for expanded occupational health surveillance, including the development of a core disability
demographic profile and indicators, an evaluation of collection and coding of industry and occupation in poison
center data, and exploration of unique data sets for surveillance of adult and childhood lead cases, and for
surveillance of heat and cold injuries using the NH syndromic surveillance system. Outputs include publication
of surveillance and research efforts in reports and articles, through presentations at national, regional, and state
conferences and meetings, and through education and training materials. Methods and guidelines for enhanced
occupational health surveillance will be shared. Intermediate outcomes include the ability to identify priority
areas for prevention strategies through analysis of a variety of occupational health indicators; the development
of more comprehensive data sets and dissemination of more accurate and detailed information, an increased
use of occupational health data by our stakeholders and others who have an interest in the data; and promotion
of pprevention strategies in the workplace, leading to a reduction in workplace illnesses, injuries, fatalities, and/or
hazardous exposures and a support of policies that incorporate occupational health status/indicators in building
evidence for a more inclusive implementation of prevention and health promotion efforts.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10464870
- **Project number:** 5U60OH010910-08
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
- **Principal Investigator:** Karla R Armenti
- **Activity code:** U60 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** ALLCDC
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $283,077
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-07-01 → 2026-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10464870

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10464870, Expansion of the New Hampshire Occupational Health Surveillance Program VTF (5U60OH010910-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10464870. Licensed CC0.

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