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George is tenured Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics, and Environmental Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health, and Distinguished Teaching Professor of The University of Texas System. Dr. Delclos is board certified and a practicing clinician in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and occupational and environmental medicine, as well as a NIOSH-certified ‘B’ reader since 1987.  He has been conducting occupational and environmental health research internationally for over 33 years. His recent research centers on total worker health and expanding paradigms for occupational safety and health.

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Meghan is the Director of the Johns Hopkins P.O.E. Total Worker Health Center in Mental Health with particular research focus on the healthcare and animal care workforces. She also is Associate Professor and Doctoral Program Director in Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint appointments to the Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology and the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She received her D.V.M. from the University of California at Davis School of Veterinary Medicine in 2000, and her M.P.H. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2008 and 2012, respectively.

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Dr. L. Casey Chosewood is Director of the Office for Total Worker Health^® at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this role, he promotes the protection and improvement of the safety, health and well-being of workers around the world through research, intervention development and partnerships. From 2004 to 2009, he served as the Director of the CDC Office of Health and Safety safeguarding the 15,000 members of the CDC workforce. His Office led numerous CDC workforce protection programs, including all occupational health services, laboratory, environmental and biological safety programs, and workplace well-being and prevention initiatives. Prior, he served as the Medical Director of CDC’s three occupational health clinics.

Director, Division of Safety Research

Manager, Center for Occupational Robotics Research

NIOSH

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Dawn is the Director of the Division of Safety Research at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). She is also the NIOSH manager for the Center for Occupational Robotics Research, the Center for Motor Vehicle Safety, and the Traumatic Injury Prevention Program. She is an injury epidemiologist and has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and technical documents on a variety of occupational injury topics, including occupational injuries among young workers, older workers, fire fighters, and workplace violence. Ms. Castillo received her Master of Public Health in epidemiology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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David Caruso is a Senior Health Communication Specialist for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) where he serves as the coordinator for the oil and gas program. He has been instrumental in helping NIOSH improve their communication efforts to translate meaningful research into workplace interventions and improvements in health and safety. David has facilitated and contributed to meaningful collaboration efforts between NIOSH and many partners (industry, OSHA, trade associations etc.). David is a Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication. He lives and works in Denver, CO.

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Jessica is the Director of the Research to Practice (r2p) Program at CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training. Jessica has over 15 years public health experience with more than a decade at CPWR. She and her team work to encourage widespread adoption of evidence-based solutions by construction contractors and workers through improving partnerships between researchers and stakeholders, increasing r2p capacity of intermediary organizations, helping stakeholders influence future research, and developing tools, strategies and resources to translate and disseminate research findings.

Director and Research Scientist, National Farm Medicine Center
Marshfield Clinic Research Institute
Marshfield Clinic Health System
Marshfield, Wisconsin

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Cap is the Director of the National Farm Medicine Center and also a tenured Research Scientist at the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute. Cap serves as the Associate Director for the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety and the Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center. Cap was raised on a farm and ranch in Idaho and competed in bareback bronc riding for nine years. He earned his bachelors from the University of Idaho and a doctorate in sociocultural anthropology from Rice University. There, he researched the ethical lives of contemporary US pastoralists. His current work applies anthropological thought and research methodologies to agricultural health and safety. These projects include investigating the attitudes of farm parents towards children’s safety – specifically the risks and benefits of youth’s involvement with agricultural work, training rural firefighters in farm hazard analysis and mitigation, and the possible health benefits of the diverse and rich biomes that exist on farms.

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Dr. Borsika Rabin is an Associate Professor at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, the Co-Director of the UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (DISC) and the San Diego CFAR Implementation Science Hub, and an Implementation Science (IS) expert on a number of large NIH and VA Center grants and research projects including the Colorado Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control, the San Diego Accelerating Colorectal Cancer Screening and follow-up through Implementation Science research program, the VA San Diego Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health and the Quadruple Aim QUERI Program (Denver VA). She has been serving as an Implementation Science Subject Matter Expert for the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health since 2021. Dr. Rabin’s research focuses on improving population health outcomes in real-world clinical and public health settings through increasing the equitable reach, adoption, implementation, and sustained use of evidence-based interventions. She does this through the development of models, methods, and measures for dissemination and implementation science and their application across diverse topic areas, populations, and settings in order to demonstrate their wide utility and broad generalizability. She co-led the effort to develop the D&I Workspace on the NIH Grid-enabled Measures Database, creating a platform for sharing IS measures and their metadata broadly. Dr. Rabin also has extensive expertise in developing and implementing novel and diverse capacity building approaches for dissemination and implementation research including the D&I Models in Health webtool and serves as the Co-Director for the ACCORDS D&I Science Certificate Program at the University of Colorado.

Associate Director for Research Integration |Office of the Director
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |CDC | Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Dr. Felknor is the Associate Director for Research Integration at NIOSH where she leads the strategic alignment and collaboration among occupational safety and health research communities.  Dr. Felknor established the NIOSH Office of Research Integration (ORI) in 2019 to connect research communities and optimize impact by leveraging innovation and collaboration to advance the NIOSH mission. ORI leads core activities to expand research partnerships and integrate NIOSH research to priority goals. In 2021, Dr. Felknor led the launch of the NIOSH Strategic Foresight Unit to connect research communities to strategic foresight and provide an organizational home for foresight activities. From 2011 to 2019, Dr. Felknor provided oversight of the NIOSH Office of Extramural Programs where she worked to integrate intramural and extramural program efforts to reduce the risk of worker injuries, illnesses and fatalities through basic and applied research.  Prior to joining NIOSH in 2011, Dr. Felknor was Associate Professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH) in Houston for 24 years, and Director of the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health.  She was an active investigator on national and international occupational health research and training grants and worked extensively in injury prevention programs in the healthcare and petrochemical industries. While at UTSPH, she served as Chair of the NIOSH Board of Scientific Counselors and the NIOSH National Workforce Assessment Task Force.  Dr. Felknor holds a professional certificate in Strategic Foresight from the University of Houston, a doctorate in public health from the UTSPH, a master’s degree in organization development from American University in Washington DC, and bachelor’s degrees in political science and Spanish from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.