Final Performance Report: Northern California Education and Research Center

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• Personal Author:
  Balmes JR
• Description:
  The Northern California ERC (NCERC) was established in 1982. During the 33 years of its existence, it has provided professional and research training at the graduate and post-graduate levels in industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, occupational health nursing, and ergonomics. Occupational epidemiology was added in 2011. A clinic administered by the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) at UCSF provides interdisciplinary training. In addition to academic and clinical training, the ERC provides a wide spectrum of continuing education and outreach activities. The NCERC programs are located on two campuses of the University of California - Berkeley (UCB) and San Francisco (UCSF). Located at Berkeley are Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Epidemiology, the Labor Occupational Health Program (outreach), Ergonomics (jointly with UCSF), and the Continuing Education Program. An Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) Residency Program and the Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing (OEHN) Program are housed in the Schools of Medicine and Nursing, respectively, at San Francisco. John R. Balmes, MD, former director of the OEM Residency Program, assumed the director's role in 2006 and Marion Gillen, RN, MPH, PhD, former director of the OEHN Program, served as deputy director until her retirement in 2011 when Patty Quinlan, MPH, CIH, assumed the role of deputy director in July 2011. The ERC is complemented by the state-funded Northern California Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), directed by Professor John R. Balmes since 2000. The COEH comprises the same programs as the ERC at Berkeley and UCSF, plus programs at UC Davis, and programs of the Labor Occupational Health Program. Most importantly, the COEH provides funding for the faculty and staff infrastructure that supports the teaching programs at Berkeley, UC Davis, and UCSF. Approximately 60 faculty, plus researchers and other professional staff from many schools and disciplines, are involved in the COEH. In addition to NIOSH ERC funding, the University of California provides approximately $2.2 million in annual funding, and core ERC faculty, along with other significant contributors to the ERC training mission, have been highly successful in obtaining extramural funding to support research and training activities. The University provides fully equipped teaching facilities at all of the NCERC locations. They include classrooms, faculty and staff offices, laboratories, and clinical facilities. Both campuses have an extensive library and are connected into the University's system-wide library. They also have essential computing resources. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Ergonomics Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Education And Research Centers Environmental Medicine ERCs Industrial Hygiene Programs Nursing Occupational Medicine Programs Training Research
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-64
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053637
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2019-100318
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, T42-OH-008429, 2015 Nov; :1-64
• Contact Point Address:
  Northern California Education and Research Center, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California, School of Public Health, Berkeley, CA 94720
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• Performing Organization:
  University of California, Berkley
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218774/cdc_218774_DS1.pdf
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