What's work got to do with it?
The Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences is housed within Oregon Healthy & Science University. Our mission is to improve the lives of workers through biomedical and occupational health research. We explore a range of questions with regard to work-related injury and disease, and develop evidence-based strategies to prevent these negative outcomes and improve the health of workers. We actively engage with community organizations, businesses, and stakeholders through Total Worker Health to improve workplace safety, health, and well-being.
Episodes
October 9, 2025 • 18 mins
Welcome to the What’s Work Got To Do with it? Podcast presented by the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences. Your source for the latest news and resources on workplace safety, health and wellbeing. We’re here today to talk about loneliness at work with OccHealthSci’s Dr. Anjali Rameshbabu and Marguerite Barton.
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September 30, 2024 • 14 mins
In this episode of the What's Work Got To Do With It? podcast, OHSU School of Nursing and OccHealthSci Assistant Professor Andrew McHill discusses findings from a recent study that looked at the impact of a high-fat diet on the body's ability to adjust to time changes like daylight saving. According to Dr. McHill, based on the study's findings, individuals who eat a high-fat dies may expect their bodies to have a harder time adjust...
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December 11, 2023 • 14 mins
In this episode of the What's Work Got to do With It podcast, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences Associate Professor Emily Huang discusses how tools she and her research team develop can be used to help organizations measure their safety, health, and respectful workplace climates, information that can be used to improve workplace safety and retention.
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January 16, 2023 • 51 mins
Learn about Ryan Olson and Brad Wipfli's Oregon Healthy Workforce Center research. They discuss how their Total Worker Health interventions have helped decrease sedentary behavior (sitting time) and increase physical activity in the workplace. Dr. Olson shares insight into studying team truck drivers in the Tech4Rest study and Dr. Wipfli shares his research studying call center workers in the Active Workplace study.
Dr. Ryan Olson...
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December 29, 2022 • 43 mins
The Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon OSHA and SAIF Corporation signed the first state-wide Total Worker Health® Alliance to expand the knowledge and application of Total Worker Health® principles by leveraging the strengths of three state-based organizations. This unique Alliance is forging partnerships between Oregon's state OSHA, Oregon's not-for-profit, state-chartered workers' compensation insurance comp...
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November 27, 2022 • 47 mins
Dr. Berrin Erdogan discusses factors leading employees to leave their jobs in large numbers, the resulting pressures and major challenges facing organizations and employees left behind and the opportunities arising from this experience to reshape the future of work.
Dr. Erdogan is Professor of Management at Portland State University's School of Business. Her research focuses on the employer-employee relationship as it relates to ...
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October 31, 2022 • 35 mins
In our latest podcast episode, we invite the Fishing Forward podcast team to share important research that can help improve the safety and health for commercial fishermen and their families. The Fishing Forward team brings stories of fishermen to the community.
Fishing Forward is a podcast inspired by fishermen, for fishermen. Fishing Forward focuses on the well-being of the commercial fishing industry and is funded by the Northea...
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September 30, 2022 • 39 mins
In our latest podcast episode, we highlight a 2021 Fall Symposium talk from Dr. Tori Crain where she addresses the topic of supporting low-wage essential workers' nonwork life during the pandemic and the numerous stressors they have faced and are still facing.
Although much of the focus during the pandemic has been on the experiences of healthcare workers, essential vulnerable workers in other industries have not received the same...
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September 2, 2022 • 35 mins
In this episode of our podcast, we highlight our 2022 Summer Intern Program. Each summer, undergraduate interns work with faculty mentors in basic and applied research over a three-month paid summer internship.
Over the summer, interns conduct a research project in their host faculty member’s laboratory. OccHealthSci’s internship program begins in June and concludes in mid-to-late August with interns presenting their work at a pos...
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July 7, 2022 • 34 mins
Dr. Miranda Lim is a neurologist with board certification in Sleep Medicine. She is an Associate Professor in Neurology with secondary appointments in Behavioral Neuroscience and Medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine, as well as an Affiliate faculty for our Institute, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences. Miranda also has a joint appointment as a Staff Physician and Research Investigator at the Veterans Affairs Portla...
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May 17, 2022 • 53 mins
In Part 2 of the Inclusion and Worker Well-Being in the Trades series, we interview Tiffany Thompson, former Director of Workforce Equity and Technical Assistance of Oregon Tradeswomen and Dr. Maura Kelly an Associate Professor of Sociology at Portland State University.
Both Tiffany and Maura support, engage and help workplaces gain tools and provide education for respectful workplace programs. They provide program support and r...
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April 5, 2022 • 47 mins
Kelly Kupcak is the Executive Director of Oregon Tradeswomen’s Executive Director. Kelly is honored to be a part of the work and mission of Oregon Tradeswomen which helps women move into dynamic careers in the skilled trades so they can take care of themselves and their families.
We invite one of Oregon Tradeswomen's partners and supporters, Larry S. Williams from the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI). Larry manages th...
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February 28, 2022 • 50 mins
Charlice Hurst, Ph.D. is an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business. Dr. Hurst teaches social entrepreneurship and social innovation. Her current research focuses on how to build an equitable workplace in the context of rapid changes to the economy and workplace.
Dr. Hurst is also a co-developer of the Just Wage Framework and Tool, which consists of a set of seven criteria for determining...
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November 6, 2021 • 26 mins
Román Baca is a classically trained ballet dancer and choreographer. In 2001, recognizing his desire to defend the defenseless, he took a hiatus from dance and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, serving as a machine-gunner and fire-team leader in Fallujah, Iraq during the Iraq War. After the war, Román returned to dance and co-founded Exit12 Dance Company, which tells veterans’ stories choreographically, to increase cross-...
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October 7, 2021 • 30 mins
What's Work Got to Do With Firefighter Safety, Health, and Well-being?
Cameron Homan is a Portland Firefighter and District Representative for Portland Fire Fighter Association Local 43. Cameron is a 3rd generation public safety worker, has been a firefighter for 10 years, with 5 of those years serving the Portland public and 4 years serving as a district representative for the Portland Firefighters Union. He is currently working ...
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August 30, 2021 • 44 mins
On this episode of What’s Work Got To Do With It? we highlight our 2021 Summer Intern Program at the Institute and OHWC. Each summer, undergraduate interns work with faculty mentors in basic and applied research over a three-month paid summer internship designed to introduce them to biomedical and occupational health research. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to make the tough decision to cancel our summer intern program last s...
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June 14, 2021 • 58 mins
What's Work Got To Do With NIOSH'S 50th Anniversary?
Speaker: John Howard, MD, MPH, JD, LLM, MBA
Host: Anjali Rameshbabu, PhD
Narrator: Helen Schuckers, MPH
This year is the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) 50th anniversary. Since April 28, 1971, NIOSH has funded research, education and resources in occupational safety and health. “Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 that cr...
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May 17, 2021 • 38 mins
What's Work Got To Do With the Impacts Of COVID19 And Wildfire Smoke On Wildland Firefighters?
Speaker: Luke Montrose, PhD
Speaker Intro: Nicole Bowles, PhD
Narrator: Helen Schuckers, MPH
Dr. Luke Montrose is an environmental toxicologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Health at Boise State University, with research interests in public health, epigenetics, and chronic illness, particularly...
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April 29, 2021 • 27 mins
What's Work Got To Do With Farmworkers' Experiences During COVID?
Speaker: Reyna Lopez, PCUN Executive Director (she/they)
Narrator: Helen Schuckers, MPH
Reyna Lopez's talk, "Essentially Forgotten?" was given at our Fall 2020 Spring Symposium where she addressed the impacts of COVID19 on the Latinx farm working community.
Reyna Lopez is a leader and proud daughter of immigrants from Mexico, who came to Oregon in the late 80’s f...
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March 7, 2021 • 20 mins
What's Work Got To Do With Mental Health and Suicide Prevention In Construction?
Guest: Steven Frost, LEED AP BD+C, CHST, ASP, CSP
Host: Nichole Guilfoy
The construction industry has one of the highest suicide rates compared to other industries. In 2016, the suicide rate for men in construction and extraction occupations was almost twice the total suicide rate for civilian working men (16-64 years old) in 32 states and 5 times gre...
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