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  • Is Your Workplace Wellness App Working?

    Is Your Workplace Wellness App Working?

    February 14, 2024

    If you offer your employees access to digital mental health applications, how do you know if the apps are actually helping them? Many employers understand their workforce’s need for mental health support. Nearly 60% of adults in the U.S. report having been concerned for either their own mental health or that of family and friends, increasing 9% since April of 20201. Poor employee mental health is associated with a $1 trillion annual global cost in productivity2.

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  • The Intersection of Women, Health, and Work

    The Intersection of Women, Health, and Work

    December 4, 2023

    Women's health is not just a women's issue. It's a societal issue that affects local communities and the economy. While women have made major headway towards equality, many areas of their lives require additional support to be made truly equal to their male counterparts. One of those areas is in the workplace.

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  • Working During the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

    Working During the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

    November 16, 2023

    David Shapiro shares a few suggestions on how to treat essential workers this holiday season.

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  • Why We Go to Washington DC

    March 5, 2024

    Every February, delegates from NIOSH-funded centers across the United States gather in Washington DC to meet with staff from the offices of elected officials and provide updates on what we have done to support workers in their districts. Ultimately, we talk about how our work over the past year uses NIOSH funds to improve the health, safety, and well-being of workers. The interests of elected officials and their staff vary widely depending on their politics, the type of businesses operated within their districts, and many other crucial points.

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  • Is Your Workplace Wellness App Working?

    February 15, 2024

    If you offer your employees access to digital mental health applications, how do you know if the apps are actually helping them? Many employers understand their workforce’s need for mental health support. Nearly 60% of adults in the U.S. report having been concerned for either their own mental health or that of family and friends, increasing 9% since April of 20201. Poor employee mental health is associated with a $1 trillion annual global cost in productivity2.

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  • Southern Colorado Study Examines Heavy Metal Exposure in Pregnancy and Impacts on Newborns

    January 17, 2024

    The San Luis Valley sits between two major mountain ranges—the San Juans and the Sangre de Cristos—in south-central Colorado. As the upper headwater region for the Rio Grande River, the San Luis Valley is a fertile and important agricultural part of the state, supporting the majority of Colorado’s potato and buckwheat crop.

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  • The Intersection of Women, Health & Work

    December 4, 2023

    Women's health is not just a women's issue. It's a societal issue that affects local communities and the economy. While women have made major headway towards equality, many areas of their lives require additional support to be made truly equal to their male counterparts. One of those areas is in the workplace.

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  • Working During the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

    November 20, 2023

    The holiday season is here! City sidewalks and busy sidewalks are dressed in holiday style.

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  • Putting Stories Behind the Stats: Carol Brown Reflects on Lessons Learned at WestON

    October 25, 2023

    Occupational safety and health is a field that focuses on improving the safety, health and well-being of workers. So often the burden of occupational hazards is reported in numbers – number of illnesses, number of injuries, number of incidents. It is easy for people to gloss over those numbers and to fail to grasp the meaning behind them.

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  • Center Faculty Present in Italy for Prestigious Collegium Ramazzini Conference

    October 23, 2023

    Things are heating up in Italy this week.

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  • New Training Offered to Support Teacher Mental Health During Emergency Drills

    October 19, 2023

    Teachers and staff shoulder a significant burden of responsibility for emergency preparedness in pre-k-12 schools. While emergency drills, including active harmer (lockdown, lockout) drills, are designed to instill confidence, they can sometimes lead to fear, anxiety and confusion. Teachers are expected to lead the drills by directing and evacuating students, locking down classrooms, providing safety checks, and emotionally supporting students. Teachers often have unanswered questions and increased anxieties associated with drills and other emergency preparedness efforts. This underscores the importance of providing necessary resources to better support the school workforce, including psychological preparedness and other mental health supports, in addition to regular access to safety and security personnel

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  • Supporting Healthcare and Public Health Workforce Mental Health

    October 11, 2023

    Health workers probably deserved more of our attention before the COVID-19 pandemic. The global crisis only elevated their experience of mental health concerns like stress, burnout, depression, anxiety, substance use disorders, and suicidality.

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  • Strengthened By Partnership: Celebrating Our Outstanding Colleagues

    September 15, 2023

    Our center hosted our third annual recognition event to honor the commitment and achievements of some of our key partners. At our core, we partner with researchers, community groups, industry and government to collaborate across all we do.

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  • Heat Impacting Tomato and Chili Agriculture Workers in Jalisco Mexico

    September 7, 2023

    Climate change is impacting our food chain, and the workers who grow, harvest, and package that food. Global temperatures increases affect the health of workers in the agricultural industry.

    Researchers from the Center for Health, Work & Environment (CHWE) at the Colorado School of Public Health (ColoradoSPH) have completed their first round of data collection for a two-year heat-related research project with agricultural workers in Jalisco, Mexico, as the implementing partner ofthe International Labour Organization (ILO)'s Vision Zero Fund. The seasoned team of experts from CHWE are working to improve workers’ occupational safety and health in selected supply chains in Mexico.

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  • ColoradoSPH Takes On Climate Threats to Human Health with First-of-its-Kind PhD Program

    August 28, 2023

    The Colorado School of Public Health on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus is preparing to play a lead role in investigating and responding to the rapidly intensifying effects of global climate change.

    The school is launching the nation’s first PhD program that focuses specifically on climate change and its multiple impacts on people’s health and the communities where they live. The inaugural class of the PhD in Climate & Human Health program is set for the Fall 2024 semester, said program director Katherine James, PhD, MSPH, MSCE, associate professor of environmental and occupational health and in the Center for Health, Work & Environment at ColoradoSPH.

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  • How Can Employers Help When Workers Struggle With Substance Use?

    May 12, 2023

    It’s no secret that Coloradans are struggling with substance use and mental health issues.

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  • What is the Health Risk of Meth Contamination?

    January 31, 2023

    Abrupt closures at public libraries in Boulder, Littleton, Englewood and Arvada due to methamphetamine contamination are a cause for concern, if not alarm.

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  • Returning to the Office and Feeling a Range of Emotions?

    April 15, 2022

    It’s your first day back in the office in almost two years. You’re anxious. Some thoughts run through your mind: How am I going to work for eight hours straight at my desk? What am I going to do for lunch? How am I going to cope with so much personal interaction? How did I commute to the office five days a week before the pandemic?

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  • Election Day Is Over: How Will the Next Administration Approach Worker Health and Safety?

    November 24, 2020

    The third installment of a CU Anschutz webinar series on the ethical dilemmas surrounding work and play focused on the impact of a new president and steps the new government needs to take to protect workers, specifically from COVID.

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  • Colleges Battle COVID-19 but Also the Budget Hit of Canceling Sports

    September 16, 2020

    • What you need to know: COVID-19 protocols for collegiate athletics vary from canceled seasons to games with over 10,000 fans. The decision making has placed student-athletes in a difficult position: play it safe with the pandemic or pursue their life-long dreams.

    In spite of a global pandemic, many colleges and universities across the United States are gearing up for the fall football season. While this slice of normalcy may be comforting, it could also come at an enormous cost – the well-being of the student athletes.

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  • Gov. Polis Proclaims Aug. 20 as Total Worker Health Day in Colorado

    August 20, 2020

    For the second year in a row, Colorado Governor Jared Polis has demonstrated the state’s commitment to worker health, safety, and well-being by proclaiming Aug. 20 Total Worker Health® Day. Health Links™, a program based at the Center for Health, Work & Environment at the Colorado School of Public Health, is the champion of this officially sanctioned day.   

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  • Overcoming a health challenge and finding purpose

    February 19, 2018

    Seven years ago, Courtland Keteyian rolled into an operating room, excited by the prospect of running the way he once did as a star athlete on the track team in college. He imagined running on an outdoor trail and alongside gurneys in an emergency room.

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  • Research Uncovers Risk Factors for Mysterious Kidney Disease in Farm Workers

    January 30, 2018

    Researchers from the Center for Health, Work & Environment at the Colorado School of Public Health (ColoradoSPH) on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have identified new risk factors for a mysterious kidney illness affecting tens of thousands of farm workers worldwide. Their findings have been published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

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  • Guatemala partnership aids farm worker health

    November 17, 2016

    lee-newman Lee Newman, MD, director of the Center for Work, Health and Environment and professor at the Colorado School of Public Health at CU Anschutz.

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