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Dr. Julie Sorensen is the Director of the Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing in Cooperstown, NY. Dr. Sorensen received her PhD in Epidemiology from Umea University, in Umea, Sweden and holds degrees in Medical Anthropology and Communications, as well. Dr. Sorensen’s research has focused on addressing a number of prominent occupational health and safety concerns in the agricultural and commercial fisheries industries including eradicating tractor overturn deaths through the creation of the National ROPS Rebate Program and eliminating falls overboard deaths in lobster fishing communities by establishing the Lifejackets for Lobstermen program. More recently her research has focused on understanding the impact of sleep deprivation on commercial fisheries worker’s health and safety. She specializes in qualitative research methods, social marketing interventions and human behavior research.