OHWC* Partner’s Luncheon 2014�*Oregon Healthy Workforce Center�

Kent Anger 1, Diane Elliot2, Leslie Hammer3 Ryan Olson1, �Dede Montgomery1, Diane Rohlman1, Kerry Kuehl2, Steve Hecker4, �

Nancy Perrin5, Todd Bodner3,, Donald Truxillo3, Laurel Kincl6, Charlotte Fritz3�

… and more� �

1 Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences�2 Health Promotion and Sports Medicine�

Oregon Health & Science University��

3 Department of Psychology�Portland State University �

�4 Labor Education and Research Center�

University of Oregon ��

5 Kaiser Center for Health Research��

6 College of Public Health and Human Sciences�Oregon State University�

Kent Anger (Director)�Leslie Hammer (Associate Director)�

Diane Elliot (Chair, ISC)�

OHWC is about TWH Interventions�•  Develop, implement and evaluate TWH

interventions/solutions programs�•  Outreach/engagement with stakeholders�•  Educational programs�•  Today’s meeting is about partnering with

Oregon industry, government, labor to build a dissemination program to reach throughout Oregon – this is not planned in nor funded by the grant �

What is TWH?�Total Worker Health (TWH) TM is a strategy for integrating �• traditional occupational safety and health programs (OSH)� (aka, Health Protection)�• with Health Promotion (HP)� because the causes of� occupational injuries and� illnesses are multi-factorial� and inter-related, and� the causes of many chronic� diseases are multi-factorial� and inter-related�

Who are you?��What industry sectors do you come from (raw numbers)?�

What is your position or job title in your organization?�

�19 most frequently-used job titles�

In Audience - Welcome�•  Director of the Oregon Institute of

Occupational Health Sciences – Steve Shea�

•  CEO of SAIF – John Plotkin �

Goals of Meeting �•  Learn about models of dissemination and

academic/industry/government/labor partnerships �

•  Help us think about what model(s) will work best in Oregon – for your organization – to get practical tools or toolkits into your hands.�

Lee Newman �•  Professor in �–  Department of Environmental and Occupational Health &

Department of Epidemiology�–  Colorado School of Public Health�

•  Professor of Medicine�–  Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and�–  Division of Pulmonary Science and Critical Care Medicine�–  School of Medicine�–  University of Colorado Denver �

•  Director … NIOSH Education & Research Center … in Denver�

•  Director of a TWH Affiliate Program�•  Co-Director of Health Links Colorado �