Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety

中西部职业健康与安全中心

• 批准号: 7487603
• 负责人: Susan Goodwin Gerberich
• 金额: $ 28.7万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7487603
• 关键词: Midwest; Center; Occupational; Health; Safety

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety (MCOHS) Education and Research Center (ERC) is to ensure a center of excellence that provides: 1) cutting-edge interdisciplinary academic and research training to prepare exceptional leaders who make significant contributions to the field of occupational health and safety, and (2) continuing education (CE) to prepare professionals in the field to address current and emerging threats to the nation's health and safety. This ERC, one of 16 nationwide, was established over 30 years ago in response to a mandate of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health -- to provide an adequate supply of qualified personnel to carry out the purposes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and reduce the national burden of work-related injury and illness. The MCOHS, recognized regionally, nationally and internationally, for its impact, has a primary service area that includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North and South Dakota. This Center provides graduate degree programs, continuing education and outreach activities, that include novel distance learning technologies, and serves as a regional resource for industry, labor, federal, state, and local government agencies/agriculture, and other interested parties. Outstanding graduate and CE programs have been created in: occupational medicine; industrial hygiene; occupational and environmental health nursing; occupational injury prevention research; and occupational health services research and policy. Selected academic and CE training programs also offer innovative specialization tracks and continuing education in agricultural safety and health and hazardous substances to better meet the health and safety needs of a diverse workforce. Through these efforts, the MCOHS produces leaders who make important contributions to the safety and health of the nation's workforce. This application strengthens the MCOHS academic and research training by increasing the synergy across existing programs to result in a cohesive center that is more than the sum of its disciplinary components. Under new leadership, the Center administration builds upon successful individual programs to intensify interaction among the programs and across the Center and community partners. Innovative strategies for promoting greater interaction and collaboration include a new administrative structure with specific positions that are responsible for enhancing interdisciplinary research and academic training, outreach activities, and diversity recruitment. Numerous efforts have also been undertaken to facilitate translation of center research efforts to practice. A comprehensive strategic planning effort has been initiated under the new leadership, involving the center administration and executive committee, as well as the center advisory board, faculty, staff, students, and relevant partners. The purpose of this strategic planning effort is to ensure continued progress toward the ERC's mission to be a foremost center in the nation, recognized as a center of excellence, in occupational health and safety education and research that will continue to make significant contributions to the reduction of the national burden of work-related injury and illness.

中西部职业健康与安全中心(MCOHS)教育和研究中心(ERC)的使命是确保一个卓越的中心，该中心提供：1)尖端跨学科学术和研究培训，以培养对职业健康和安全领域做出重大贡献的杰出领导者，以及(2)继续教育(CE)，以培养该领域的专业人员，以应对当前和正在出现的对国家健康和安全的威胁。国家职业安全与健康研究所是全国16个职业安全与健康中心之一，成立于30多年前，是为了响应国家职业安全与健康研究所的一项任务--提供足够的合格人员，以履行《职业安全与健康法案》的宗旨，并减轻全国与工伤和疾病有关的负担。MCOHS因其影响而在地区、国家和国际上得到认可，其主要服务区域包括明尼苏达州、威斯康星州以及北达科他州和南达科他州。该中心提供研究生学位课程、继续教育和推广活动，包括新的远程学习技术，并为工业、劳工、联邦、州和地方政府机构/农业以及其他感兴趣的各方提供地区性资源。在职业医学、工业卫生、职业和环境健康护理、职业伤害预防研究以及职业健康服务研究和政策方面创建了优秀的研究生和CE课程。精选的学术和CE培训项目还提供农业安全和健康以及有害物质方面的创新专业化跟踪和继续教育，以更好地满足不同劳动力的健康和安全需求。通过这些努力，MCOHS产生了为国家劳动力的安全和健康做出重要贡献的领导人。这一应用加强了MCOHS的学术和研究培训，增加了现有项目之间的协同作用，从而产生了一个比其学科组成部分的总和更具凝聚力的中心。在新的领导下，中心管理建立在成功的个人计划的基础上，以加强计划之间以及中心和社区合作伙伴之间的互动。促进更多互动和协作的创新战略包括一个新的行政结构，其具体职位负责加强跨学科研究和学术培训、外联活动和多样化招聘。还作出了许多努力，以促进将中心的研究工作转化为实践。在新的领导下，中心管理和执行委员会以及中心顾问委员会、教职员工、学生和相关合作伙伴参与了全面的战略规划工作。这一战略规划工作的目的是确保ERC的使命继续取得进展，成为全国最重要的中心，被公认为职业健康和安全教育和研究的卓越中心，将继续为减轻全国工伤和疾病负担做出重大贡献。