November 15, 2016

  • The Changing Face of Wellness - “Total Worker Health®: Integrating Safety and Health to Advance Worker Well-being” - Concord Hospital Center for Health Promotion, Concord, NH. Presenter: Alicia Kurowski, Sc.D., Post Doctorate Research Fellow at CPH-NEW. View the program agenda (pdf).

November 2, 2016

  • American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Expo - “Massachusetts Working on Wellness: Evaluation of a statewide public health initiative to advance workforce health” - Denver, Colorado.
    Presenter: Suzanne Nobrega, MS. View the program agenda

October 28, 2016

  • ConnectiCOSH's Annual Health and Safety Convention - UAW Region 9A, 111 South Road, Farmington, CT. A day long event that offered numerous workshops around various workplace health and safety issues. Featured speaker: Michael J. Wright, Director of Health, Safety and Environment, United Steel Workers (1984-Present).

October 27, 2016

  • Webinar: Safe Patient Handling: Highlights of current research, U.S. public policy efforts to improve safety - Laura Punnett, Sc.D.  and CPH-NEW Co-Director presented. University of Waterloo. You will need to install Adobe Connect to view the webinar recording.

October 24, 2016

  • UConn Center for Environmental Health and Health Promotion and CPH-NEW present Environment, Epigenetics and Cancer: How to Cultivate the Connections - “Breast Cancer Susceptibility: Rethinking the role of the environment and methods to improve risk assessment.” - UConn Storrs. Keynote Presentation by Mary Beth Terry, Ph.D. View the program agenda

April 1, 2016

First Annual Occupational Health and Safety Research Conference - "Job Demand, Control and Support in Association with Participation in Worksite Wellness Programs" - University of Iowa, IA. Presenter (poster): Mahboobeh Ghesmaty Sangachin and Lora A. Cavuoto. View the program agenda (pdf).

April 1, 2016

  • 37th Annual Scientific Meeting of the NY NJ Education and Research Center - "Health protection and health promotion opportunities in healthcare settings" - Mt. Sinai. Presenter: Laura Punnett Sc.D., CPH-NEW Co-director.

March 30, 2016

  • Participatory Action Research Conference - UConn, Storrs. 2014 Pilot Grantees presented their findings from their pilot studies: Katrina Burch, M.A., "Reducing commuting stress and work-related rumination", and Jenny Garza, Ph.D., "Informing interventions to protect/promote the health of custodians". Keynote speaker: Suzanne Cashman. View the program agenda (pdf).

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