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The Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences 2019-2019 Biennial Report highlighting our Faculty and Staff, their research interests and accomplishments. 

Since the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences began in 1988 (initially as CROET), we have produced many basic, applied and clinical research findings, educational symposia, and outreach accomplishments.  Below we present many of those accomplishments drawn from the "highlights" from the annual reports beginning in 2001. The annual and biennial reports are available in the Publications pulldown under about.

The benefit of complementary basic and applied science has been an underlying tenet of Occupational Health Sciences research. For example, our basic laboratory assessments of DNA damage induced by sunlight have led to laboratory-based techniques for repairing sunlight-induced DNA damage, proving the concept. The ultimate goal is a clinical trial of a new therapy for the repair of DNA damage that may lead to skin cancer, thus preventing the cancer from developing in the first place. Thus, Occupational Health Sciences performs research at many levels including basic laboratory science, human laboratory science, workplace interventions and outreach plus education.

The Oregon Healthy Workforce Center (OHWC) is a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Center of Excellence in Total Worker Health®. Founded in 2011, OHWC is housed within Oregon Health & Science University’s (OHSU) Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences (Institute), and also includes investigators from the OHSU-Portland State University (PSU) School of Public Health, PSU, the University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins University. OHWC’s work is focused on OSHA region 10 (Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Idaho) and beyond.