Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (MCOHS)

Details

• Personal Author:
  McGovern, Patricia M. ; Ramirez MR
• Description:
  The mission of the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (MCOHS) Education and Research Center (ERC) is to provide:1) cutting-edge interdisciplinary academic training to prepare exceptional professionals and practitioners who address current and emerging threats to occupational safety and health (OSH), and 2) high-impact outreach through continuing education (CE) and translation of research-to-practice. The funding period for this report is July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2020. Objective: To provide a supply of qualified personnel with skills and competencies to recognize, manage, study and control OSH hazards to meet the goal of reducing the burden of work-related injury and illness in the Midwest and beyond. Design: The MCOHS is composed of an Administrative Planning and Education Core, an Academic Training Core, and an Outreach Core guided by advisory boards and strategic plans. Graduate academic and research programs enable quality training in Industrial Hygiene, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing, Occupational Health Services Research and Policy, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology, and Occupational Injury Prevention. A CE Program and research-to-practice activities will reach wide audiences to meet the needs of a diverse workforce. Key Accomplishments: 1) MCOHS positioned itself to establish strategic leadership to ensure its sustainability. A new director was appointed, mid-career faculty promoted to director positions, and new, diverse junior faculty were recruited. This increase faculty breadth, depth and diversity supports emerging and ongoing needs for research and training expertise in the center programs. 2) From 2015-2020, across all programs, a total of 104 students matriculated into the MCOHS (69 new admissions, and 35 continuing students admitted prior to 2015). An impressive 27% were underrepresented racial/ethnic students, and 56 MCOHS trainees (26 MPH, 9 MS and 21 PhD) graduated from their respective programs. Student retention was excellent at 94%. 3) The majority of alumni (95%) were immediately employed upon graduation into a variety of settings: 25% in industry, 23% in government agencies, 19% in academia, 21% in hospital/clinic/integrated health care systems, and 3% in consulting. 4) The breadth of research pursued by MCOHS faculty and trainees is impressive, representing major NORA sectors and addressing topics such as occupational disparities, surveillance, biomarkers, intervention/policy evaluation, and stress. 5) The Pilot Project Research Training Program served as an incubator for new research ideas, supporting students, post-doctoral researchers and faculty in our region. During this past performance period, 29 pilot grants were awarded that supported students, faculty associated with MCOHS, researchers elsewhere at the University of Minnesota, and investigators at other institutions in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota. 6) Our Continuing Education program trained practitioners on up-to-date practices and research in Occupational Safety and Health. During the performance period, 19,219 trainees were served by the MCOHS CE program through 451 courses from 50 states and 47 countries. A total of 1000+ outreach engagement activities were completed by MCOHS faculty and students. These included Education Development, Presentations/Lectures/Seminars, Consultations, and Community Engaged Research. 7) Guided by MCOHS's strategic plan, the MCOHS has grown in its leadership, breadth in research and strategies for training. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Public Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Education And Research Centers Environmental Health ERCs Industrial Hygiene Occupational Medicine Occupational Safety And Health Public Health Training Worker Health
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8 ; South Dakota ; Wisconsin
• 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:
  1-240
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064044
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2022-100415
• 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-008434, 2020 Sep; :1-240
• Contact Point Address:
  Marizen R. Ramirez, MPH, PhD - Center Director, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
• Email:
  mramirez@umn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• 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:
  urn:sha-512:6aefd35a573b75f3e802c4548af52feed530285f9091fe63379ebe78bea35ae4e392ccea7b568dcb3039863489dc88deda1f851e57b9b752b5eacbb2322da0ef
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219088/cdc_219088_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 3.38 MB ]