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Meet OSU alumna Amelia Vaughan, '07, who turned her public health degree into a career coordinating NIOSH-funded commercial fishing safety projects in Oregon's coastal communities.

These plans will help schools prepare for, respond to, and recover from wildfire smoke events.

Environmental science meets public health as Bruce Franz designs interactive tools for the U.S. EPA and Oregon DEQ during his OSU MPH internship, bringing data visualization to Southern Willamette Valley's groundwater management.

Environmental and occupational health PhD candidate Mina Salehi Sedeh transforms athlete-focused software into accessible workplace safety tool using AI, three iPhones and innovative musculoskeletal modeling.

Meet OSU alum Grady Maxwell, MPH, '09, who turned his Mississippi environmental concerns into a career as an EPA Regional Safety Manager, protecting workers across the Northwest.

Jay Kim, associate professor in environmental and occupational health, received a research grant from Washington State Labor and Industries.

Associate Professor Jay Kim has been selected as a Research Advancement Academy (RAA) fellow for 2023-24.

OSU's FLIPP research team provides free lifejackets to Newport fishermen, launching innovative safety program to identify and make affordable lifejackets fishermen will actually wear.

Mina Salehi and Allen Chan, PhD students in the Occupational Ergonomics and Biomechanics Laboratory in the EOH program, received competitive travel awards from the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society. Using the awards, they will present their recent work

Associate Professor Jay Kim and his research team received a new NIOSH grant ($950K: Federal - $710K) for three years to study exoskeletons among commercial fishermen.

Bruce Franz '23 received an award at the 2023 annual Pacific Ecological Systems Division award ceremony for his work to make ground water monitoring more accessible to stakeholders.

These projects are making a difference in fishermen’s lives. Research and training need to be relevant and practical for vessel owners and crew.