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Gail V Bateson, MS, OHIP Program of AOEC, 1010 Vermont Ave., NW, #513, Washington, DC 20005, 510-525-6421, batesong@pacbell.net, Robert Harrison, MD, MPH, Occupational Health Program, University of California at San Francisco, Division of Occup & Environ Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94143, and David Kotelchuck, PhD, MPH, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Hunter College, 425 E 25th St., New York, NY 10010.
A new summer internship program called OHIP has been created to recruit, train, mentor and inspire a new generation of occupational safety and health professionals who are dedicated to preventing job injury and disease. We believe that students of occupational health need direct experience with workers to fully understand the complexities of health and safety issues and problems in the workplace. During the summer of 2004, teams of students were placed in the San Francisco and New York City metro areas with unions and worker organizations to conduct collaborative research into worker-identified problems. Students from the first summer of this program will report on their experience and make recommendations for future efforts. Tables: (1) Gail Bateson, MS – Historical Overview of OSH Summer Intern Programs (2) Robert Harrison, M.D., MPH and Dave Kotelchuck, Ph.D., MPH –Keys to Identifying and Implementing Successful Field Projects (3,4,5) Students -- Lessons Learned from the Summer Project: the challenges of collaborative research and team work.
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Keywords: Occupational Health, Participatory Research
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.