Title: Upcoming Conferences

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Section/SPIG: Occupational Health and Safety

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A conference and public forum on
“The Way We Work and Its Impact on Our Health”

The University of California Centers of Occupational and Environmental Health in Northern California (UCB, UCSF and UCD) and Southern California (UCLA and UCI) along with the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Northern and Southern California Education and Research Centers, and the Center for Social Epidemiology invite you to attend a conference on “The Way We Work and Its Impact on Our Health.” It will be held on April 22-23, 2004, at the UCLA Sunset Village Conference Center. This program has no registration fee.
The primary purposes of the forum are to foster dialog, clarify issues and seek solutions that will reduce harmful health outcomes due to work-related stress. The forum is for employers, workers, labor organizations, health care providers, policy makers and academics and everyone else interested in the issue.
The two-day program features:

Opening dinner with presentation by Dr. John Frank (Scientific Director, Population and Public Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research);

Review of relevant research;

Keynote address by Dr. Steve Sauter (Chief, Division of Applied Research and Technology, NIOSH); and

Speakers, panel discussions and breakout groups.

Topics addressed include:

The changing way we work;

How the way we work impacts our health;

Challenges for Californians to improve work organization; and

Identifying solutions including case studies

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The goals of the forum are to:

Summarize what is known about work, work organization and stress and health;

Provide a forum for discussing various perspectives on health issues related to work and occupational stress

Strategize ways to reduce the health impact and cost of work-related stress; and

Encourage consensus building that will begin to develop a California policy on work, work organization and work-related stress.

Visit <www.workhealth.org> to learn more about this upcoming meeting and other related topics.

A preliminary agenda will be e-mailed to you soon. If you would like a registration form (to be ready late January 2004), please contact Claudia Molina at <cmolina@ucla.edu> or 310-206-2304.