Deputy Director | Office of Research Integration |Office of the Director
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) | Cincinnati, OH, USA

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Jessica MK Streit is Deputy Director of the Office of Research Integration in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). She also serves as the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Intramural Research Scientific Program Official for NIOSH. In these roles, Jessica works closely with Dr. Sarah Felknor, the NIOSH Associate Director for Research Integration, to lead key NIOSH efforts in the areas of strategic foresight, expanding research partnerships, and NORA intramural research. Jessica has coauthored publications examining occupational safety and health risks and hazards—in particular, psychosocial risks and hazards—faced by workers today and in the future. Recently, she served as lead author on a foundational NIOSH paper exploring the role of strategic foresight in occupational safety and health. Jessica holds a professional certificate in Strategic Foresight from the University of Houston (Houston, TX, USA), a doctor of philosophy degree in Health Education and a professional certificate in Community and Public Health from the University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH, USA), a Master of Science degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and a bachelor of science degree in Statistics from Northern Kentucky University (Highlands Heights, KY, USA), and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Miami University (Oxford, OH, USA). She is also a certified Base SAS® Programming Specialist.