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Company Name: Center Of Occupational And Environmental Health

Company Type: Education

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Multidisciplinary Activities and Events 2005-06

2005 COEH Annual Symposium

Occupational & Environmental Health in the Developing World: Making a Difference
Date: October 28, 2005, all day
Location: Clark Kerr Campus, UC Berkeley
Contact: A-Niesha Sapp (510/643-7277).

COEH Student Project Award
Established by COEH to promote interdisciplinary collaboration among students and residents, two or three projects are funded annually for up to $5,000 each to conduct a multidisciplinary occupational or environmental health project (research, teaching, or service).
RFP: September 2005
Application deadline: March 17, 2006
Contact: Suzanne Llewellyn (llew@berkeley.edu or 510/643-4422)

COEH "Get-Together"
A get-acquainted event hosted by COEH programs on a rotating basis for all COEH students, staff , and faculty, usually showcasing a student project and a project from that program. Spring 2006 event will be hosted by LOHP, UCB.
Date: April 10, 2006 (5:30-7:30PM)
Location: 150 University Hall, UC Berkeley
Contact: Homa Khamsi (510/643-5696)

COEH Continuing Professional Education Summer Institute
A weeklong set of courses off ering continuing education credit for practicing professionals
Date: July TBA 2006
Location: TBA
Contact: Piego Ellwood (510/643-7233).
For courses offered throughout the year: http://www.coehce.org

COEH Continuing Professional Education Summer Institute
Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP) A summer internship program to help medical, nursing, public health, and other students learn more about the field of occupational safety and health from those with the most at stake: working people.
Date: Summer 2006
Contact: Gail Bateson at batesong@pacbell.net

COEH Clinics

Community Occupational Health Project (COHP)
A community-based clinic (Oakland) co-founded by COEH faculty members that provides treatment for work-related problems, physical therapy, and workshops for Asian immigrant women and other lowwage workers. (Volunteer opportunities)
Hours of Operation: Available by appointment
Location: 2647 International Boulevard, Suite 108, Oakland, CA
Contact: Laura Perez (510/533-9906)

Occupational & Environmental Medicine Clinic - Mt. Zion Hospital, SF
A faculty practice clinic primarily for teaching purposes; OM residents, OEHN nursing students and IH students rotate through and work as a team on clinical cases
Hours of Operation: Thursday afternoons, by appointment
Location: Mt. Zion Hospital, 2380 Sutter St, 3rd Fl, San Francisco, CA
Contact: Erin Andersen (415/885-7982)

Occupational & Environmental Medicine Clinic - San Francisco General Hospital, SF
A faculty practice clinic primarily for teaching purposes; OM residents, OEHN nursing students and IH students rotate through and work as a team on clinical cases
Hours of Operation: 8:00AM-4:30PM
Location: SF General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Ave., Bldg. 9, Rm 200, San Francisco, CA
Contact: Sarah Jewell, MD (Clinic: 415/206-8998)

UC Davis Occupational Medicine Clinic
Occupational medicine practice, workers' compensation evaluation, qualiifi ed Medical Examiner/ Independent Medical Examiner consulation
Hours of Operation: by appointment
Location: University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
Contact: (916/754-7635)

Mobile Medical Surveillance Program

Provides a comprehensive range of occupational health services for agencies involved with hazardous materials, including those involved in dismantling clandestine drug labs. Off er diagnostic and therapeutic services for work-related illnesses such as respiratory problemns resulting from fi re, smoke inhalation and other hazardous materials on-site with mobile medical unit or at client facility.
Contact: Sophia Haro (530/752-1281)

Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP)
A COEH community outreach program providing educational materials, workshops, technical guidance, and library resources on occupational and community health and safety issues. Current projects include construction safety, refi nery H&S, environmental justice, ergonomics training, hazardous waste, immigrant workers, lead hazards, teen workers, union H&S skills, and workers' compensation. (Internship opportunities)
Hours of Operation: M-F 8-5
Location: 2223 Fulton St. 4th Floor, Berkeley, CA
Contact: Karen Andrews (510/643-4335)

Multidisciplinary Student/Faculty Research Project
Under a joint management/labor agreement, New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) has requested help from the University to address health and safety issues of concern to their workers. (Opportunity for field experience and educational credits in exposure assessment and epidemiology)
Date/Location: New project to begin in the 2005-06 academic year
Contact: Professor Katharine Hammond (hammondk@berkeley.edu)

About Company

California has had its share of natural disasters, but the State became acutely aware of another, more insidious type of threat in the late 1970s, when workers who had been making the pesticide DBCP discovered that they were sterile. Concerned that California lacked the knowledge and the trained professionals it needed to protect people from work-related hazards, the State passed legislation in 1978 mandating the University to establish teaching, research, and service centers in Northern and Southern California. The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) and its sister centers at Los Angeles and Irvine serve government, industry, schools, health professionals, and the general public through programs and partnerships designed to deepen understanding of occupational and environmental hazards and to prevent disease, fatalities, and injuries.Activities are grounded in multicampus, multidisciplinary teaching programs in medicine, nursing, public health, and related fields which: Educate future leaders in occupational and environmental health Develop new knowledge Bring the resources of the University of California to the public Educating Students for the Real World of Occupational and Environmental Health Protecting health and safety on the job and in the community is a persistent national problem. The workplace statistics alone are stark: Every day an average of 9,000 U.S. workers sustain disabling injuries on the job, 15 workers die from a workplace injury, and another 137 die from work-related illness. That’s nearly 56,000 lives lost annually, and more than three million disabling work injuries each year, costing an estimated $171 billion annually in direct and indirect costs. Still, the U.S. lacks health care professionals with expertise in occupational and environmental health. COEH helps address this shortage by training occupational and environmental health specialists for careers in industry, universities, and government. From Basic Laboratory Research to Applied Field Research Whether they are probing a single cell or surveying an entire population, COEH researchers have two goals in mind: to prevent injuries and disease in the workplace and to solve critical health problems in our communities. Interdisciplinary collaboration has been the key to powerful results. Bridge to the Public At its inception, COEH made a commitment to deliver university services directly to the public. This is accomplished through a labor and community education program, a continuing professional education program and clinical services. Just the Facts Director: John R. Balmes, MD; Founding Director: Robert C. Spear, PhD Established as a permanent part of the University of California in 1980. One of 16 regional Education and Research Centers funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Involves approximately 60 faculty, plus researchers and other professional staff from many schools and disciplines on the three Northern California campuses. Funded at $2.8 million by the University of California. Over $39 million in extramural funding directed by COEH faculty in 2003-04. COEH Teaching Programs Agricultural Engineering (Program Director: Fadi Fathallah, PhD) Graduate education and research on ergonomic hazards in agriculture Continuing Professional Education (Program Director: Barbara Plog, MPH, CIH, CSP) Multidisciplinary and specialty short courses on a wide array of topics, including an annual week-long CE summer institute and the UC Berkeley Asbestos and Lead-Paint Training Program. Department of Public Health Sciences (Program Director: Marc Schenker, MD) Graduate education in occupational and environmental epidemiology, toxicology, and biostatistics; clinical services for the public; research in occupational and environmental health. Ergonomics (Program Director: David Rempel, MD) Graduate education, research, and consulting services to prevent musculoskeletal injuries (joint Berkeley/San Francisco program). International Program (Program Director: Kirk Smith, PhD, MPH) Worldwide research collaborations and an interdisciplinary master's program focused on helping developing countries address occupational and environmental health problems. Labor Occupational Health Program (Program Director: Robin Baker, MPH) Labor and community education focusing on health and safety. Occupational and Environmental Medicine (Program Director: John Balmes, MD) Occupational medicine residency and interdisciplinary, clinic-based training for graduate students in nursing, industrial hygiene, & ergonomics; clinical services for the public; research in occupational and environmental health. Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing (Program Director: Marion Gillen, RN, MPH, PhD) Graduate eduation and doctoral research on preventing and treating work-related injuries and illness. Public Health (Program Director: Robert C. Spear, PhD) Graduate education and basic and applied research in occupational hygiene, toxicology, epidemiology, ergonomics and environmental health policy.