The Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program’s research mission is to promote occupational and environmental medicine as a discipline by advancing the scientific understanding of complex workplace and community environmental exposures. The program focuses on policy-relevant research, including the relationship between exposure and disease, the cost versus benefit of new standards, and clinical interventions. OEM serves as an objective and unique source of information for the patient and community, policy makers, regulatory bodies, and primary care givers.
The program offers research opportunities in the fields of agricultural health, air pollution health effects, biostatistics, chemical and physical toxicants, dietary factors and disease risk, epidemiology, international occupational health, multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome, musculoskeletal injury, neurological epidemiology, neuropyschological sequelae of solvent/pesticide exposure, occupational lead poisoning, occupational lung disease, occupational infectious disease, and the occupational health and safety of animal workers.