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The SCERC provides opportunities for students to participate in occupational health-related outreach activities with local unions and worker centers.
Students, faculty, and staff from all of the SCERC's academic programs at UCLA and UCI convene on a quarterly basis for interdisciplinary events.
The Targeted Research Training (TRT) Program provides support for collaborative research training with affiliated graduate programs to train OSH researchers who are not part of an academic SCERC program.
The Continuing Education (CE) program offers virtual and in-person courses for occupational health and safety professionals, employers, workers and more! Contact us at: erc@ph.ucla.edu with your request.

Fall 2025 Orientation — SCERC Fall 2025 Virtual Orientation

Our Center consists of an interdisciplinary set of professional education, continuing education, research and outreach activities that positively impact the region’s and nation’s Occupational Health and Safety practice. Housed at UCLA and UC Irvine.

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Industrial Hygiene

Industrial hygienists are environmental specialists concerned with anticipation, identification, evaluation, control, and prevention of exposure to potentially dangerous and hazardous chemical, physical, biological, mechanical, psychosocial, and ergonomic stressors in the workplace environment.

Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing

Occupational and environmental health nurses are educated to provide continual and comprehensive wellness and illness care to adults by providing preventive health services, patient education, disease management and illness prevention with emphasis on occupational and environmental hazard identification and control, screening, surveillance and rehabilitation of workers.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

The Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, and a core program of the UCI Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), is committed to training physicians and scientists for careers in Occupational and Environmental Health.