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Past Webinar Recordings
PreviousWebinarsSeptember 26, 2024
Power of Policy for Healthcare Worker Wellbeing: What Does the Research Tell Us? Webinar
- This webinar is part of CPH-NEW's ongoing Total Worker Health Trends: Expert Webinar Series, and was recorded from 1 to 2 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Thursday, September 26, 2024. CPH-NEW collaborated with our neighboring NIOSH Total Worker Health Center of Excellence, the Harvard Center for Work, Health, and Wellbeing (CWHW), to host this installment of the webinar series. This webinar features presentations on recent studies examining how laws, regulations, and organizational policy impact healthcare workers’ safety, health, and well-being. Presenters from CPH-NEW include Laura Punnett, Sc.D and Sundus Siddique, Sc.D., M.B.B.S., M.P.H., and presenters from CWHW include Glorian Sorensen, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Erika L. Sabbath, Sc.D.. Both speakers discuss research findings related to the impact of public and organizational policies on healthcare workers’ mental and physical health, burnout, workability and intentions to leave their job. They also identify the implications of their findings for future workplace interventions and developing public policy.
May 30, 2024
Building a Stronger Front: Union Leaders Unite for Member Well-Being in the Workplace Webinar
- This webinar was part of CPH-NEW's ongoing Total Worker Health® Trends: Expert Webinar Series, and was recorded from 1 to 2 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Thursday, May 30, 2024. This dynamic webinar featured a panel discussion with union leaders in education, healthcare and corrections, discussing strategies for fostering worker health, safety, and well-being within their memberships. From innovative approaches to traditional methods, panelists explore practical tactics, share success stories, and address challenges faced in engaging members in crucial aspects of their welfare. This webinar provides viewers practical insights, inspiration, and actionable takeaways to empower your membership to create healthier and safer workplaces for all.
December 14, 2023
Exploring Employee Attitudes in Organizational Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Webinar
- This webinar was part of CPH-NEW's ongoing Total Worker Health Trends: Expert Webinar Series, and was recorded from 1 to 2 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Thursday, December 14, 2023. In this webinar, Katrina Burch, Ph.D., shares her research on the influence of workplace climate on employee safety behaviors and what can be done to remedy negative work climates. Specifically, investigations on how discrimination, harassment and mistreatment in the workplace affect employee health, well-being and performance.
September 21, 2023
No One Whistles a Symphony: How To Integrate Safety With Operations Management Webinar
- This webinar was part of CPH-NEW's ongoing Total Worker Health Trends: Expert Webinar Series and is was recorded from Noon to 1 p.m. (Eastern Time) on Thursday, September 21, 2023. In this webinar, learn how to change the internal health and safety of your organization through organizational learning and change management using “change agents”, intermediaries and collective teamwork. Peter Hasle, Ph.D., guest speaker from the University of Southern Denmark, shares his expertise by explaining how to create successful interventions. Through multiple in-depth case studies, he demonstrates how organizational design features can be used to proactively develop and ensure collaboration capable of solving collective tasks and bridging departmental and occupational silos to improve health care delivery. This information is relevant across all industries.
May 10, 2023
Evidence Informed Resources to Address Worker Stress and Trauma Among Correctional Workforce Webinar
- This webinar was recorded May 10, 2023 as part of the ongoing Total Worker Health Trends: Expert Webinar Series. Correctional staff working in jails and prisons are at risk for adverse mental health sequelae, including stress, burnout, and psychological distress from traumatic events experienced on the job. Guest Speakers, Mazen El Ghaziri Ph.D., Lisa Jaegers Ph.D., and Martin Cherniak M.D., M.P.H. discuss best practices and propose innovative solutions to reduce correctional staff trauma and organizational stress in U.S. jail and prison settings based on the findings from a scoping review and national survey.
February 1, 2023
Supporting Aging Workers: Overcoming Workplace Ageism Webinar
- This webinar was record on February 1, 2023 as part of the ongoing Total Worker Health Trends: Expert Webinar Series. Guest Speaker, Gretchen (Gigi) Petery, Ph.D. discussed examples of common and socially acceptable ageist beliefs and provided evidence of whether or not those beliefs are empirically supported. In addition, She examined the consequences of workplace ageism to workers, to organizations, and to society along with management strategies for combatting ageism.
October 27, 2022
- During the webinar, Rebecca Guerin, Ph.D., shares her work and provides examples and insights about opportunities for leveraging implementation science methods, models, strategies, and measures in complex and dynamic workplace settings to increase worker safety, health, and well-being. This webinar is part of the CPH-NEW's ongoing Total Worker Health Trends: Expert Webinar Series, and was recorded from 1 to 2 p.m. (eastern time) on Thursday, October 27, 2022.
June 24, 2022
Work as a Social Determinant of Mental Health Webinar
- Tony LaMontagne is a Professor of Work, Health, and Wellbeing at Deakin University, Australia. Professor LaMontagne’s career has been dedicated to developing the scientific and public understanding of work as a social determinant of health and translating this research into policy and practice to improve workplace and worker health. Specific areas of interest include workplace mental health, improving job quality and psychosocial working conditions, and evaluating policy interventions. His research and publications have influenced policy & practice in workplace health nationally and internationally, including OH&S authorities, Beyond Blue, the (Australian) National Mental Health Commission, the US Occupational Safety & Health Administration, and the World Health Organization. Before completing his doctoral degree at Harvard University, Tony earned M.Ed. and B.S. degrees in Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We, at CPH-NEW, were excited to welcome him back to UMass Lowell for this CPH-NEW Webinar to discuss Doctor LaMontagne's work on the impacts of work on physical health, mental health, and well-being.
June 14, 2022
Hybrid Work Is Not Just About Geography - It Is an Organizational Change Webinar
- Christine Ipsen is an associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Her expertise includes interventions in knowledge work to ensure productivity and well-being in tandem. She has written extensively about participatory interventions in knowledge work and the impact of working from home on the workplace and workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. She has co-developed the Fish-Bone method, a participatory tool to explore what creates enthusiasm and strain at a workplace, and an evaluation tool, to continuously evaluate the progress of an intervention and the implementation of changes. This webinar is part of CPH-NEW’s Total Worker HealthTrends: Expert Webinar Series, and is focused on learning about the advantages and disadvantages of hybrid work, and the impacts of remote work on employee health and worker well-being.
March 16, 2022
Addressing Worker Mental Health: The Healthy Workplace Campaign Webinar
- In 2016, a poll by the American Psychological Association reported that one out of 3 workers typically feel tense or stressed out during the workday, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only increased the stressors experienced by most worker. There is strong evidence that workplace psychosocial stress contributes to poor mental health and mental illness. This webinar is part of CPH-NEW’s Total Worker Health Trends: Expert Webinar Series focused on learning about the links between work, stress, health, and interventions to improve worker well-being. Marnie Dobson, Ph.D. presents her work and tools from the Healthy Work Campaign that can be used to improve the health and productivity of working people.
February 11, 2022
HearWell: A Total Worker Health Approach to Hearing Conservation Webinar
- Jenn Cavallari, Sc.D., C.I.H., offering her presentation about the HearWell program to all in attendance at the New York-New Jersey Education and Research Center's 42nd Annual Scientific Meeting. The HearWell Program was developed using the Total Worker Health approach adapted by CPH-NEW. HearWell was developed for transportation maintenance workers exposed to noise while repairing and maintaining roadways. The goal of HearWell was to improve upon hearing protection device use and hearing health knowledge.
October 19, 2021
- In this webinar, researcher and office systems expert Michelle Robertson reviews how the new hybrid work system has impacted individuals and organizations focusing on strategies that use a work-systems perspective to promote worker wellbeing and performance. This CPH-NEW Webinar was co-hosted with MA WoW.
October 9, 2019
Introducing the Healthy Workplace Participatory Program 2.0 Online Toolkit Webinar
- In this webinar, the new features of the HWPP "2.0" online toolkit are outlined, and Ms. Nobrega shares the evaluation methods, results of HWPP end-user feedback, and the process used to refine, test, and disseminate the "2.0" Facilitator Manual and online program toolkit.
June 13, 2017
Evaluation of a Safe Resident Handling Program in U.S. Nursing Homes Webinar
- Alicia Kurowski, Sc.D. and Post Doctorate Research Fellow at CPH-NEW. Institute for Work and Health - Toronto, Canada.
June 26, 2015
Work and Mental Health: Capturing Natural Experiments from Large Longitudinal Datasets
- Anthony LaMontagne, Sc.D., Deakin University guest lecture at University of Massachusetts Lowell.