The National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA): Health and Safety Priorities for the 21st Century

This event took place on May 26-27, 2004.

Purpose

To promote dissemination of research on the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) priorities, including: traumatic injury (unintentional and intentional); occupational health services research; exposure assessment; musculoskeletal disease syndromes; organization of work.

Video

To watch the streaming video, your computer needs:

• Internet connection with a 56K modem or faster.
• Sound card with speakers so you can hear the audio portion of the course.
• Real Player Software - if it isn't installed on your computer, download it for free at http://real.com.

• NORA at Nine: Looking Back and Looking Forward (Keynote)
  Marilyn Fingerhut, PhD, NIOSH International Coordinator and NORA Coordinator, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,Washington, DC
• Priorities for Occupational Injury Surveillance in the 21st Century: The Need to Improve Information for Non-Fatal Injuries
  Gordon S. Smith, MD, MPH, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Safety Research, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, Hopkinton, Massachusetts
• Economic Incentives for Health Behavior Change
  Nico Pronk, PhD, Vice President, Center for Health Promotion, HealthPartners, and Research Investigator and Co-Director, Population Health Unit, HealthPartners Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Discussants:
    Sheryl Niebuhr, PhD, Manager, 3M Total Health & Productivity Services
    Bryan Dowd, PhD, Professor, Health Services Research and Policy, and Co-Director, Occupational Health Services Research and Policy Program, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Musculoskeletal Disorders: Interventions, Outcomes and Proposals: Welcome to 'Reality Science'
  Benjamin C. Amick III, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, Texas; Co-Chair, Health Services Research Team, NORA, NIOSH, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Discussants:
    William H. Lohman, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Public Health; Medical Consultant - Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry
    Peter Benner, Executive Director, AFSCME Council 6 - AFL-CIO, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• The Clinical and Occupational Correlates of Work Productivity Loss Among Employed Patients with Depression
  Debra Lerner, PhD, MS, Director, The Health Institute's Program on Health, Work and Disability, Tufts-New England Medical Center; Associate Professor of Medicine, Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

Sponsored by

The Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety
National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA)
Occupational Safety and Health Research (OSHR) Programs