Research Scientist and Project Lead, Harvard Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Susan Peters, PhD is a Research Scientist and Project Co-Lead for the Thriving Workers, Thriving Workplaces Study at the Harvard T.H. Chan Center for Work, Health and Well-being.  She has been involved in the development, implementation and testing of participatory integrated organizational interventions in transportation, construction, and food service designed to improve the safety, health, and well-being of workers. She recently led the development of the Thriving from Work questionnaire, a measure of work-related well-being. Her current work is focusing on how working conditions and public and organizational policies shape thriving workers and thriving workplaces.

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Michael Flynn is a cultural anthropologist with over 25 years of experience working on issues related to social inequality both domestically and abroad.  He currently serves as a Lead Research Social Scientist with NIOSH where he coordinates the Occupational Health Equity program.

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Dr. Beth A. Livingston is an Associate Professor in Management & Entrepreneurship at the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, an internal advisor with the Healthier Workforce Center of the Midwest, a NIOSH Center of Excellence, and the faculty director of the Dore-Tippie Women’s Leadership program. After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and her MBA from the University of Kentucky, she began her career at Cornell University in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations before moving to the Midwest. She studies and teaches human resource management, gender & diversity, and the management of work and family in the service of employee well-being. Her research has been highlighted in the New York Times, NPR, and the Harvard Business Review, and she has been published in multiple top academic journals. Dr. Livingston has also done executive education, speaking engagements, and consulting for companies and non-profits such as Accenture, John Deere, Yves Saint Laurent Beauty, Allsteel, and Hollaback! (now Right to Be) and is the co-author of the forthcoming book from Harvard Business Review Press, Shared Sisterhood.

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Dr. Kermit Davis is a Professor at the University of Cincinnati where he is the graduate program director of the Environmental and Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Safety and Ergonomics programs at the University of Cincinnati.  Dr. Davis is a past-President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and a Fellow of HFES (2013) and American Industrial Hygiene Association (2019). His research has concentrated on reducing ergonomic stressors of healthcare workers and patients in healthcare settings (e.g. hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home healthcare). In the last year, his research has focused on virtual offices.

Research Analyst
CPWR ‒ The Center for Construction Research and Training

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Grace Barlet, MPH, is a Research Analyst at CPWR ‒ The Center for Construction Research and Training, where she is part of the Research to Practice (r2p) team. At CPWR, she conducts research on the hazards construction workers face on the job and develops translational products for contractors, workers, and other stakeholders based on research findings. She received her MPH in Environmental Health Sciences from the Yale School of Public Health.

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Dr. Trueblood is the Director of the Data Center at CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training. She holds a DrPH in Epidemiology and Environmental Health from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health and an MPH in Health Promotion and Behavioral Science from the University of Texas School of Public Health. Before coming to CPWR in July 2021 she worked at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute as an Associate Research Scientist in the Crash Analytics Program. She specializes in the use of surveillance data to identify injury and other trends, as well as presenting complex statistics in easy to digest formats for all audiences.

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CAPT Lisa Delaney, MS, CIH joined the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in 1999 after graduating with a Master of Science degree in Environmental Health and Industrial Hygiene from the University of Cincinnati.  CAPT Delaney currently serves as the Associate Director for Emergency Preparedness and Response at NIOSH where she leads NIOSH’s emergency response, planning, and preparedness activities.

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Steve has been a scientific program official in NIOSH’s Office of Extramural Programs since 2012. In that time, he has worked with the NIOSH-supported Centers for Agriculture Safety and Health and has also had involvement with funding announcements, application processes, and administrative oversight for many of the other NIOSH-supported centers, including ERCs and TWH.

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Dr. Erika Scott is the Deputy Director of the Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety in Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing. Her research interests in occupational health include injury surveillance, assessing burden of morbidity and mortality, logging health and safety, and the role of work in chronic health and wellness. She received a biology degree from SUNY Geneseo, and a masters and PhD in Environmental and Occupational Health from the University at Albany, School of Public Health, and a graduate certificate in Health Policy and Economics from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy at the University of Albany. She has been with NYCAMH/Northeast Center since 2009.

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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.