Targeted Research Training Program

The Targeted Research Training (TRT) program fosters the development of interdisciplinary research skills that are needed to generate new knowledge in the field of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) and to enhance the trainees’ potential to become productive OSH researchers. Research training is responsive to the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) and will facilitate translation of research findings through communication to occupational health professionals. The TRT provides support for collaborative research training with affiliated graduate programs to train OSH researchers who are not part of an academic SCERC program.

Affiliated Programs:

UCLA PhD program in Environmental Health Sciences
UCLA PhD program in Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing
UC Irvine PhD Program in Public Health
UC Irvine PhD Program in Environmental Health Sciences

Currently, there are three training directions:

Occupational health disparities
Secondary prevention of chronic disease among workers
Occupational toxicology

The TRT program also provides support for post-doctoral researchers in OSH who do research on NORA-priority areas. It also provides support for outreach to communicate research findings to occupational health professionals in the region and support for program impact and outcome evaluation.

Post-Doctoral Researchers Supported by TRT

Post-Doc Researcher	Affiliation	Status	Research Topic	Advisor	NORA Sector / Cross Sector Program
Elizabeth Keller	Occupational Health Nursing - UCLA	Current	Working Conditions and Health in Wilderness Healthcare Professionals and First Responders	Dr. Jian Li, Dr. Wendie Robbins	Healthy Work Design & Well-Being (cross-sector)

PhD Students Supported by TRT

Student	Affiliation	Status	Dissertation Title	Advisor	NORA Sector / Cross Sector Program
Jayveeritz Bautista	Environmental Health Sciences - UCI - PhD	Current	Respiratory effects of inhaled metals from environmental exposure to e-cigarette vapor	Dr. Michael Kleinmann Dr. Andrea De Vizcaya-Ruiz	Respiratory Health (cross-sector)
Ivy Torres	Public Health - UCI - PhD	Past	Occupational Histories, Racialization and Gender Processes and Disability Patterns among Latina Immigrant Elders	Dr. Alana LeBron	Musculoskeletal Health
Margaret Whitley	Public Health - UCI - PhD	Past	Workplace Breastfeeding Support and Job Satisfaction Among Working Mothers in the United States	Dr. BongKyoo Choi	Healthy Work Design & Well-Being Program Information (cross-sector)
Clinton Hall	Epidemiology - UCLA - PhD	Past	Occupational Epidemiology in Vulnerable Populations: Occupational Physical Activity and Cerebrovascular Disease in Older Women and Parental Occupational Exposures and Childhood Cancer	Dr. Niklas Krause Dr. Beate Ritz	National Agriculture, Forestry, & Fishing (sector) National Manufacturing (sector) National Services (sector) National Transportation, Warehousing, & Utilities (sector)
Anne Rorie Gelber	Occupational Health Nursing - UCLA - PhD	Past	Health Promotion, Technology, and the Environment: Examining the use of a Twitter based health intervention to improve active commute usership among urban dwelling working men and women	Dr. Wendie Robbins	Total Worker Health (cross-sector)
Negar Omid	Epidemiology - UCLA - PhD	Past	Parental Occupational Exposures and Risk of Childhood Cancer	Dr. Beate Ritz Dr. Julia Heck	Cancer, Reproductive & Cardiovascular Diseases (cross sector) Exposure Assessment (cross-sector)
Matthew Feaster	Epidemiology - UCLA -PhD	Past	Psychosocial and Physical Occupational Determinants of Hypertension, Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality: The Role of Alternative Assessment Methods of Job Stress and Hypertension and Mediation by Hemodynamic Factors.	Dr. Niklas Krause Dr. Onyebuchi Arah	Cancer, Reproductive & Cardiovascular Diseases (cross-sector) Work Organization & Stress-Related Disorders (cross-sector)
Nu Yu	Industrial Hygiene (EHS) - UCLA - PhD	Past	Characterizing Los Angeles Taxi Driver Exposure to On-road Ultrafine Particles and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons	Dr. Yifang Zhu	Exposure Assessment (cross-sector)
Deborah Curtis	Occupational Health Nursing - UCLA - PhD	Past	The Association of Chronic Stress Secondary to Occupational Racism and Shift Work with Diabesity	Dr. Wendie Robbins	Healthcare & Social Assistance (sector) Work Organization & Stress-Related Disorders (cross sector)
Aolin Wang	Epidemiology - UCLA - PhD	Past	Opening the Black Box: Estimation of Targeted Effects in Causal Mediation Analysis - With Applications to Global Health and Occupational Epidemiology	Dr. Niklas Krause Dr. Onyebuchi Arah	Cancer, Reproductive & Cardiovascular Diseases (cross-sector) Work Organization & Stress-Related Disorders (cross-sector)
Airek Mathews	Industrial Hygiene (EHS) - UCLA - PhD	Past	Whole Glove Permeation of Cyclohexanol Through Disposable Nitrile Gloves	Dr. Que Hee	Personal Protective Technology (cross-sector)
George Brogmus	Industrial Hygiene (EHS) - UCLA - PhD	Past	Workplace Intervention to Reduce Back Pain Through the Control of Early Morning Flexion	Dr. Niklas Krause	Musculoskeletal Health (cross-sector)
Siavash Banaee	Industrial Hygiene (EHS) - UCLA - PhD	Past	Permeation of Limonene through Disposable Nitrile Gloves in the Robot Hand Whole Glove and ASTM Closed Loop Models	Dr. Que Hee	Immune & Dermal Diseases (cross-sector) Exposure Assessment (cross-sector)