The MCOHS is funded in part by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Funding includes stipend support, tuition reimbursement, and scholarships for Hazardous Substance Training, and is administered through the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota. Additionally, funding may be received for pilot project research.

MCOHS collaborates on OSHA courses as a host site and is available to provide OSHA courses on a contract basis and to assist in the development and delivery of site specific courses, which may be conducted at your location or another location.

Education and Training

The MCOHS supports continuing education and graduate training in industrial hygiene (including a focus in hazardous substances), occupational and environmental health nursing, injury epidemiology and control, occupational medicine, agricultural safety and health, occupational health services research and policy and the national occupational research agenda. For more detailed information, view the list of academic degree programs.

Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety
Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach
2221 University Avenue SE, Suite 350
Minneapolis, MN 55414
phone: 612-626-4515 or 1-800-493-2060
fax: 612-626-4525

Ruth Rasmussen
CE Director and
Continuing Education Specialist, CPHEO
Email: rasmu048@umn.edu

email: mcohs@umn.edu

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Division of Environmental Health Sciences
1260 Mayo (MMC 807)
420 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Main Office: 612-626-0900
Fax: 612-626-4837

Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach (CPHEO)

The Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach promotes lifelong learning to bridge academic and public health practice communities.

Centers for Public Health Education and Outreach
2221 University Avenue SE,
Suite 350
Minneapolis, MN 55414
phone: 612-626-4515 or 1-800-493-2060
fax: 612-626-4525

email: cpheo@umn.edu