About

The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (ORhwc), a NIOSH Center of Excellence, was funded in September, 2011.

Collaborating Institutions (Partners)
Oregon Health & Science University (lead institution)

• Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology (CROET)
• Division of Health Promotion & Sports Medicine

Portland State University

• Occupational Health Psychology (OHP)

University of Oregon

• Labor Education & Research Center (LERC)

Leadership

• W. Kent Anger, PhD (Director)
• Leslie Hammer, PhD (Associate Director' Director, Summer Institute))
• Kendra Evans, MPH (Center Manager)
• Janice Stewart (Financial Manager)
• Diane Elliot, MD, FACP, FACSM (Chair, Internal Steering Committee)
• Nancy Perrin, PhD (Director, Design and Analysis Core)
• Dede Montgomery, CIH, MS (Director, Outreach Core; Co-Director, Education Project)
• Steve Hecker, MSPH (Co-Director, Education Project)
• R. Stephen Lloyd, PhD (PI, Pilot Program)

Theme
The ORhwc’s theme is Intervention Effectiveness. We are focused on team-based and technology-based interventions to promote and protect health, all crafted with attention to translating research to practice.

External Advisory Committee

• Tom Becker, MD, PhD (Oregon Health & Science University/Chair, Public Health & Preventive Medicine)
• Mark R. Cullen, MD (Stanford University/Chief of General Medicine)
• Jae P. Douglas, MSW, PhD (Oregon Public Health Division, Research & Education Services Section Manager)
• Chuck Easterly, BS, ARM (SAIF Corporation, Loss Control Director/worker’s compensation Insurance)
• Leda Isabel Garside, RN, MBA (Tuality Heathcare ¡Salud! Services)
• Joseph J. Hurrell, PhD (Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology)
• John Mohlis (Oregon State Building and Construction Trades Council)
• Noah Seixas, PhD, MS (University of Washington/Director, NIOSH ERC)
• Ronald L. Tubby, MS, MBA, CIH, CSP (Intel Corporation)