Key points
The role of the Safety and Occupational Health Study Section is to review grant applications for scientific and technical merit. Members serve four-year terms and have expertise in both occupational safety and health and research methodology.
Overview
The Safety and Occupational Health Study Section provides advice and makes recommendations to the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); the Director, CDC; and the Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), on scientific, research, and training areas related to occupational safety and health, which are in need of special emphasis and expertise to meet such needs.
The SOHSS conducts review for scientific and technical merit of all research and demonstration grant applications, as well as fellowships in the program areas related to the cause, prevention, and control of diseases and injuries in the occupational environment; provides review for educational, scientific, and technical merit of safety and occupational health training grant applications; and recommends grant applications, which merit support, to the appropriate national advisory councils.
Roster
Chair
Julie Sorensen, PhD
- Director, Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
- Cooperstown, NY
- Term: 07/01/2022 – 06/30/2026
Members
Antoine J. Alston, Ph.D.
- Professor, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, NC A&T State University
- Greensboro, NC
- Term: 01/02/2025-06/30/2028
Kurt Beschorner, BS, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Term: 07/01/2022 – 06/30/2026
George Friedman-Jimenez, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Health
- New York, NY
- Term: 01/02/2025-06/30/2028
Emily (Yueng-hsiang) Huang, PhD
- Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health and State University
- Portland, OR
- Term: 07/01/2022 – 06/30/2026
Jian Li, Ph.D.
- Professor, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California
- Los Angeles, CA
- Term: 12/01/2024-06/30/2027
Linda Nie, Ph.D.
- Professor, School of Health Sciences, Purdue University
- West Lafayette, IN
- Term: 07/01/2022 – 06/30/2026
Jack Ogutu, Ph.D.
- Professor and Chair, The Applied Engineering, Safety and Technology Department, Millersville University
- Millersville, PA
- Term: 12/01/2024-06/30/2027
Patrick T. O'Shaughnessy, Ph.D.
- Professor, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
- Iowa City, IA
- Term: 01/02/2025-06/30/2028
Gary O. Rankin, Ph.D.
- Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Marshall University
- Huntington, WV
- Term: 07/01/2022-06/30/20226
Ann E. Rogers, Ph.D.
- Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University
- Atlanta, GA
- Term: 01/02/2025-06/30/2025
- Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Michigan
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Term: 01/0-2/2025-06/30/2028
- Professor Emeritus, College of Health Professions, Northern Kentucky University
- Highland Heights, KY
- Term: 07/01/2022-06/30/2026
- Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Washington
- Seattle, WA
- Term: 12/01/2024-06/30/2027
Joanne Vining, Ph.D.
- Professor Emerita of Environmental Psychology, University of Illinois
- Urbana, IL
- Term: 12/01/2024-06/30/2027
Zhiqing Zhou, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
- Baltimore, MD
- Term: 01/02/2025-06/30/2028
Scientific Review Officer
- Office of Extramural Programs, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Morgantown, WV