EOHS Community Cafe
Learn about current EOHS research and practice. Wednesdays 12-1pm CST
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Research Cutting edge research and ideas for future projects.
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Practice Impactful EOHS applied public health practice.
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Partners Opportunities for collaboration.
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Speaker series exploring cutting edge research in Occupational Health Sciences
Date Speaker Title 01/11 Linda Forst, MD, MPH Farmworker health and well-being. 01/25 Sam Dorevitch, MD Sustainably producing and providing safe drinking water in Kenya.. 02/01 Robert Cohen, MD UIC Mining Education and Research Center – Investigating, Intervening, and Advocating to improve the health and safety of mine workers.. 02/08 Cindy Klein-Banai, PhD Campus Sustainability and Environmental Justice. 02/15 Margaret Sietsema, PhD Cough, Cough, PANIC: Aerosol Exposures and Control in Healthcare Settings. 02/22 Honghyuk Kim, PhD How epidemiology and data science can contribute to building an equitable society under climate change. 03/01 Preethi Pratap, PhD Crafting a Decent Work Policy - Helping Author a Decent Work Policy with APHA 03/08 Elena Grossman, MPH Decent Work in the United States: A Public Health Perspective 03/15 Kirsten Almberg, PhD Turning Unhealthy Work into Healthy Work: The Research and Outreach of the Center for Healthy Work 03/29 Mehdi Amouei Torkmahalleh, PhD Addressing the Exposure to Ultrafine Particles for Advancing the Aerosol Science and Translational Science 04/05 Michael Cailas Environmental Justice Issues, Methods, and Solutions 04/12 Yuan Shao, PhD Advancing Occupational and Environmental Health Research through Innovative Engineering Approaches. 04/19 Susan Buchanan, MD, MPH Children’s and reproductive environmental health: Case example of fish consumption. 04/26 Tessa Bonney, PhD The Role of Local Health Departments & Occupational Health Research and Practice
About the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Heading link
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About the division
Cumulative impacts, worker health, climate health, health equity and environmental justice, from cells to society – protecting population health, worker health and the environment.
The Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (EOHS) at UIC conducts cutting edge environmental and occupational health sciences research in partnership and in collaboration with community partners within local, state and globally. EOHS aims to protect public and population health by identifying key risk factors for worker health and community health. EOHS uses a cumulative impacts framework to better protect worker and population health.
We consider an upstream approach to advance healthy communities and reducing burden on environmental justice communities. Environmental justice communities are communities that are overburdened by environmental hazards. Often the same historical and social factors that have lead to communities facing many hazards are also underserved and lower resourced. Many communities facing multiple threats have been traditionally excluded from research. Consequently, many communities and population do not equally benefit from research and regulatory decisions. Individuals who live in environmental justice communities are also most likely to be employed in the highest risk and most dangerous working conditions. In EOHS, we aim to address these complex challenges through education, research, and practice.
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About attendance requirements
- Attendance is required at 80% of seminars
- Work with EOHS 495 course instructor for additional requirements.