Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Chenxi Sun, MPH ’20, prepares to participate in the 40-hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, or HAZWOPER, training program in the winter of 2020.

COHSE receives $9 million NIOSH grant to fund education and training

The Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering has received a five-year $9 million grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to continue its pivotal role in training the future generation of occupational health professionals.

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Mistreatment of Michigan farmworkers: Researchers document abuses, push for change

Recent research, published in the Labor Studies Journal, documents a range of dehumanizing, stressful, unsafe, and unhealthy workplace and living conditions. In their qualitative research effort, University of Michigan social epidemiologists Lisbeth Iglesias-Rios and Alexis Handal specifically explore the effects of precarious employment and labor exploitation on how they affect the health of farmworkers and their families.

An illustration of a city with different types of buildings and smog in the background.

Identifying air pollution sources in Southwest Detroit

New research from Michigan Public Health

Recently, a University of Michigan School of Public Health research team released a new study in the journal Atmosphere that aims to identify these sources in an area of Michigan with some of the highest levels of air pollution in the country: Southwest Detroit.