Environmental Health Sciences Research and Centers
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The Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety
The MCOHS is an education and research center which is sponsored, in part, by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
The center provides graduate academic and research training programs, continuing education, and outreach
Faculty Research Interests
Most EnHS faculty members actively conduct research, many of whom are nationally and internationally renowned in their fields of study. Their current projects include:
- Exposure assessment in industrial settings
- Small business interventions to improve worker health and safety
- Pesticide exposures in children
- Chemical carcinogenesis
- Environmental indicators for The Great Lakes Basin
- Determinants of maternal health upon return to work after childbirth
- Evaluation of devices to minimize or eliminate microbial contamination
- Cancer prevention
- Violence against educators
- Consequences of agricultural injuries
Our Research and Study Centers
- The Midwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety
- Minnesota Technical Assistance Program (MNTap)
- Regional Injury Prevention Research Center (RIPRC)
- National Children’s Study
- Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH)