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Alice Hamilton: Industrial Health Pioneer and the First Female Epidemiologist

CSTE

CSTE celebrates March 2023 as Womens History Month As Womens History Month comes to a close, CSTE is featuring Alice Hamilton, the first female epidemiologist and a pioneer in industrial health and safety. We are pleased to celebrate the importance of women in occupational health and epidemiology.

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Survey finds occupational health issues among food handlers in Kerala’s Kozhikode

The Hindu

Sanitation and Fitness Evaluation (SAFE) project was conceived as a surveillance program for food handlers to strengthen food safety and public health. Food handlers were later issued health cards of one-year validity

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Labor Occupational Health Program at Berkeley celebrates 50 years of advancing safe jobs, healthy lives, and worker justice

Berkeley Public Health

Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, the program remains devoted to its mission: promoting safe, healthy, and just workplaces.

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Human, Bird, or Dog Waste? Scientists Parsing Poop To Aid DC’s Forgotten River

KFF Health News

” said Amy Sapkota , a professor of environmental and occupational health at the University of Maryland. Scientists monitor E. coli to indicate the presence of feces in river water, but since the bacteria live in the guts of most warm-blooded animals, the source is difficult to determine. “Is it human feces? Or is it deer?

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Health and Safety Inspector Job Description

Tulane Public Health Blog

A thorough tour of a workplace, as well as inspecting relevant equipment, is key to providing a complete health and safety report. Salary Expectations for Health and Safety Inspectors According to the U.S. This accounts for all health and safety professionals.

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Boost for Open Access in Asia as Frontiers and Taiwan’s NHRI seal deal

Frontiers

It focuses on fields including aging, cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research, genomic medicine, biomedical engineering, biotechnology and drug discovery, environmental and occupational health, population health, and health policy.

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Low-income Washington state households still struggling with food insecurity as pandemic protections end

UW School of Public Health Blog

Otten, associate professor, Nutritional Sciences Program (NSP) and the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) at the UW School of Public Health (UWSPH); Marie L. student, Health Systems and Population Health at UWSPH; Ashley S. The WAFOOD4 team comprises Jennifer J.