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The Role of Community Labor Organizations in Advancing Public Health

Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH Lecturer School of Public Health Texas State University

Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH is a lecturer in public health at Texas State University. Her research includes evaluations of occupational health and safety regulations to prevent injury and death, as well as on industry strategies to create uncertainty about scientific evidence in order to delay protective regulatory action.

Dr. Monforton worked at the U.S. Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. for 11 years. Later, while working on her graduate degrees, she was appointed in 2006 and in 2010 to investigate disasters in West Virginia that killed 41 coal miners. These experiences greatly influenced her current work, as she saw first-hand the impact on families and communities of uncontrolled hazards and employer indifference.

Dr. Monforton spends much of her time providing technical assistance to worker centers and other community organizations which connect factors in the work environment as impediments and opportunities to dignity and health. Her book with co-author Jane Von Bergen, On the Job: the Untold Story of Worker Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health, will be published in May by The New Press.

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The Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (EOHS) Research Seminar Series presents information on current research topics and emerging issues in EOHS.

Seminars are presented by UTHealth School of Public Health faculty, doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows or external esteemed guest lecturers. Seminars are scheduled on a biweekly basis, on alternate Fridays at noon.

Target Audience: Physicians, Nurses, Safety Professionals, Industrial Hygienists, Epidemiologists, Graduate Students and other public health professionals.

The objective of the series is to identify and discuss new methods, advances and current topics in environmental and occupational health science research and apply current knowledge and key assumptions in environmental health sciences and other areas to advance the development of the field.

Learning Outcome(s): At the completion of this series of lectures the Physician, Registered Nurse, Safety Professionals, Industrial Hygienists, Epidemiologists, Graduate Students and other public health professionals will be able to (1) recognize an environmental and/or occupational health problem; (2) identify new methods, advances and current research in the environmental and occupational health science; (3) discuss research outcomes; (4) consider application of major research findings; and (5) apply lessons learned to public health practices and patient care.