Great Lakes Center for Occupational Health and Safety

NIH RePORTER · ALLCDC · T42 · $1,691,448 · view on reporter.nih.gov ↗

Abstract

Overall The Great Lakes Center for Occupational Health and Safety/Illinois Education and Research Center (GLC-OHS) has been funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health since 1977. Our mission is to improve, promote, and maintain the health of workers and communities through innovative and interdisciplinary activities, with the Specific Aims to 1) Educate graduate students for professional practice and/or research and to prepare them to contribute to the advancement of occupational and environmental health, safety, equity, inclusion, and well-being. 2) Prepare OHS professionals to be leaders who expand awareness of and solutions for improving public and worker health, safety, equity, inclusion, and well-being. 3) Enhance the capabilities of employers, worker organizations, government agencies and communities to solve occupational and environmental health, safety and well-being challenges through outreach and technical assistance. 4) Enrich the knowledge base for solving current and future occupational and environmental health safety and well-being issues through academic, research and practice-based experiences. 5) Foster networks of academic, professional and community organizations that advocate for and raise awareness of occupational and environmental health, safety, and well-being issues. 6) Translate and disseminate OHS best practices in partnership with diverse local, regional, national partners and community groups. Our facilities span two campuses of the University of Illinois – the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and multiple colleges on those two campuses including the School of Public Health (SPH), the College of Engineering (COE) and the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. The administration of the GLC-OHS is based in the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (EOHS) in the UIC SPH. The current GLC-OHS is comprised of 9 programs. With the addition of a proposed reconfigured Targeted Research Training program, we are proposing a total of 10 programs: Agricultural Safety and Health, Industrial Hygiene, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine, Occupational Safety, Planning and Evaluation, Targeted Research Training – proposed, Continuing Education, Outreach, Pilot Projects Research Training. Degrees offered by the GLC- OHS include Master of Public Health, Master of Science in Public Health, and Doctor of Philosophy. Our trainees are funded with stipends and tuition support, and in addition to their academic programs they participate in robust inter-disciplinary activities. With this proposal we have included new focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in our recruitment and retention of trainees and faculty, and we have included a new emphasis on training and research on the application of artificial intelligence to occupational safety and health.

Key facts

NIH application ID
10973907
Project number
2T42OH008672-19
Recipient
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
Principal Investigator
Susan Nathalie Buchanan
Activity code
T42
Funding institute
ALLCDC
Fiscal year
2024
Award amount
$1,691,448
Award type
2
Project period
2024-07-01 → 2029-06-30