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Total Worker Health® Track

The Total Worker Health® (TWH) doctoral program was established in 2018 and it is the first and only in the world, graduate-level program in TWH. TheTWH approachwas originally conceived by NIOSH to include “policies, programs, and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness-prevention efforts to advance worker well-being.”

TWH计划是一个追踪available for students enrolling in the PhD degree in Environmental Sciences. The TWH program builds upon occupational safety and health efforts to prevent workplace injury and illness with policies, programs and practices to promote worker well-being. For more information, contactDr. David Gimeno Ruiz de Porras.

Graduates will be able to conduct research characterizing worker well-being, as well as implement policies and practices improving worker health. In addition to research opportunities, key elements of the TWH track involve practice-based training and interdisciplinary interactions with trainees in occupational epidemiology, industrial hygiene and occupational medicine. Specifically, the curriculum trains students to identify, characterize, and integrate risk factors of worker well-being and safety, as well as develop, implement, and evaluate strategies, policies and programs to improve workers’ health and well-being.

以下是工人健康状况的学习目标：

描述在工作场所环境中的全部工人健康框架的应用，以改善工人的福祉。
Evaluate research relevant to Total Worker Health and worker well-being.
Identify sources and pathways of exposure to risk factors influencing worker well-being.
确定影响工人福祉的职业因素（例如，衰老，成瘾，户外空气污染，建筑环境，生活方式行为，健康政策和医疗保健）。
Integrate behavioral, organizational, and policy theories as needed in plans to improve worker well-being.
Develop, implement, or evaluate a Total Worker Health strategy or intervention to improve worker well-being.

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Fall 2022 to Summer 2023 PhD EOHS TWH Track Degree Planner

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The Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at UTHealth School of Public Health is one of18 CDC/NIOSH Education and Research Centersin the United States, supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). SWCOEH is comprised of academic degree programs in occupational medicine, industrial hygiene, occupational epidemiology and total worker health, and supports active continuing education, outreach and pilot project research training programs.

学员hipsconsisting of full tuition, fees support and a generous monthly stipend are available to full-time students on a competitive basis. Trainees must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Requirements for the traineeships include acceptance into the PhD Environmental Sciences academic program (TWH track), maintenance of a minimum course workload and satisfactory academic progress.

How to Apply

Admission requirements and application deadlines can be found在线的.

Students should apply for the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Environmental Sciences within theEnvironmental and Occupational Health Sciences Program.

For More Information

David Gimeno Ruiz de Porras, Ph.D.
Professor and Program Director
Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
UTHealth School of Public Health
7411 John Smith Drive，Suite 1100
San Antonio, TX 78229
电话：210.276.9011
Fax: 210.276.9028
电子邮件：David.Gimeno@uth.tmc.edu

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WorkerHealth®学员总数

Paul Carey, MD, MPH SWCOEH Trainee	医学博士保罗•凯里英里每小时完成他的居住training in Occupational & Environmental Medicine and Master of Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center Houston. He served as chief resident and was inducted to the Alpha Iota Chapter of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health in August 2019. Dr. Carey was the Occupational Medicine resident representative on the residency advisory committee and the program evaluation committee. He was selected as a NIOSH Trainee in Total Worker Health and plans to advance his career as an academic clinician engaged in research interests that include occupational chemical exposure, nanomaterial risk identification and biomarker surveillance.
Jennifer Cerecero, MS TWH Student	詹妮弗·塞雷塞罗（Jennifer Cerecero），MS是环境科学的二年级博士学位 - 工人健康状况。她从得克萨斯州A＆M大学站完成了放射健康工程学士学位，并从圣安东尼奥UT Health的医学健康物理学硕士完成了学士学位。她目前担任UT Health San Antonio的环境健康与安全办公室的执行董事，并为我们机构提供广泛示波器许可证，X射线注册，激光认证和乳房X线摄影认证的辐射安全官员。此外，她在大流行期间协助了COVID-19与UT Health San Antonio的COVID接触跟踪。她计划在圣安东尼奥校区的UT Health Health校园内利用她在环境健康与安全和全职工作人员健康职业生涯中的学位。
Carlos Chavarria, MPH SWCOEH Trainee	Carlos Chavarria, MPH, is a first-year PhD student at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health – Environmental Health Total Worker Health Doctoral Program. Mr. Chavarria earned a Master of Public Health in Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences from UTHealth El Paso and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas at El Paso in Biology with a concentration in Ecology. He has research experience in heavy metal contamination in the Greater El Paso area in environmental sampling and COVID-19 wastewater surveillance. His research interests include wastewater surveillance programs, heavy metal contamination, air and water quality and how they tie into the safety of the occupational environments.
Rosandra Daywalker, MD SWCOEH Trainee	Rosandra "Røs" Daywalker, MD is a physician completing a combined PhD in Environmental & Occupational Health and residency in Occupational & Environmental Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. The first Total Worker Health® track doctoral student in the nation, Dr. Daywalker was granted a competitive traineeship by the CDC NIOSH through the Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. Dr. Daywalker is currently coordinating research regarding the effects of COVID-19 on patient care gaps and healthcare worker well-being, in collaboration with the Texas Association of Community Health Centers, Inc.-- the federally designated primary care association for the state of Texas. She attended medical school at Morehouse School of Medicine, an institution recognized for its social mission and commitment to health equity. As a medical student, she was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, the only national medical honor society in the world. Dr. Daywalker's global experience includes having led medical professionals in a community health program in Haiti, as well as humanitarian medical and educational service in Vietnam. As a recipient of the AAO-HNS Resident Leadership Grant, Nathan Sostrin Unbeatable Mind Scholarship, and University of Texas Medical Branch Quality Improvement Research Award, Dr. Daywalker is dedicated to improving population well-being through collaboration. Her vision is to use her expertise in medicine, research, coaching, and leadership to continue to drive innovations in wellness, health promotion, leadership development, and organizational/community transformation.
Muinat Idris, MPH TWH Student	Muinat Abolore Idris, MPH, COHC is a second-year PhD student at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health in the Environmental and Occupational Health Science (Total Worker Health Track). She earned her Master of Public Health in Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2018. Before Muinat Abolore transitioned to the doctoral degree program at UTHealth, she served as the Environmental Health and Safety Coordinator at Southwest Tennessee Community College. Her research interest includes work-related injury and illness prevention, cancer prevention, noise pollution, air quality.
MD TWH Student	César Leonardo Pinzón Gómez, MD, MPH is a PhD student in Environmental Sciences, Total Worker Health Track at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health. He is a physician from the National University of Colombia, recognized as one of the top medical schools in his country, and completed his residency in Occupational Medicine at the Manuela Beltran University of Colombia. He carried out activities as an Occupational Physician for 6 years focusing on work-related rehabilitation processes and return-to-work with modified duties. Later he performed in multiple companies in the private sector as director of Health-Safety and Environment, generating and developing corporate strategies for the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases, promoting healthy lifestyles, and facilitating return-to-work in workers with disabilities. Subsequently, he completed his MPH in Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center where he was chosen to obtain the Outstanding New Student scholarship and also earned a graduate certificate in Data Science. He was also elected to receive the Jack Killian Memorial Scholarship, and was introduced to the Alpha Iota chapter of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health.
Valerie Valenzuela, MBA SWCOEH Trainee	瓦莱丽·瓦伦苏埃拉（Valerie Valenzuela），MBA，是休斯敦（UT Health）的得克萨斯大学健康科学中心二年级博士生，环境科学：全工人健康轨道。她在2018年完成了MBA，并在地方和州政府机构工作了很多年，这些机构从石棉领导的各种环境危害中帮助工人健康。此外，她曾担任城市卫生部门Covid-19响应小组的流行病学家。她的兴趣包括移民工人的健康和促进弱势人口职业的数据分析框架。