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Trainees

Mentoring and training tomorrow’s health and safety professionals is critical to our capacity-building efforts. Students, post-docs, and junior investigators at our Center participate in planning studies, developing manuscripts, implementing pilot projects, and presenting at the Center’s Works in Progress internal seminar series. The Center’s prior trainees contribute to the field in a wide range of settings and industries around the world.

Current trainees

There are currently no trainees at the Center.

Former trainees

Winnie Chin, ScD, MS
UX Researcher at Google
winniesychin@outlook.com 

Oscar E. Arias-Fernandez, MD, ScD
Manager, Occupational Health & Safety North America
The Coca-Cola Company
oarias@ucla.edu

Alberto Cabán-Martinez, DO, PhD, MPH, CPH
Associate Professor, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
Vice-Chair for Research, Department of Public Health Sciences
Deputy Director, MD-MPH Program
Assistant Provost for Research Integrity, MD-MPH Program Deputy Director
acaban@miami.edu

Caitlin Eicher Caspi, ScD
Associate Professor, Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut
Director of Food Security Initiatives, UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity
caitlin.caspi@uconn.edu

Ellen Connorton
Former Senior Science Advisor
U.S. Department of State
ellen@connorton.org

Maria Andree Lopez Gomez, MPH, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Demographic Studies 
malopezgomez@mun.ca

Michael Grant, ScD 
Deputy Branch Chief of the Field Research Branch
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
mgrant@cdc.gov 

Amy Harley
Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs
Zilber School of Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
harley@uwm.edu

Karen Hopcia, ScD, APRN-BC, COHN-S, FAAOHN
Associate Director for Shared Services, Budget and Data Analysis
Mass General Brigham Occupational Health Services
khopcia@partners.org

David A. Hurtado, ScD
Associate Professor, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences
Oregon Health and Science University
hurtadod@ohsu.edu

Henrik Børsting Jacobsen, PhD
Research Fellow at OUS
hbjacobsen@psykologi.uio.no 

Sonja Stoeffel Kerr, PhD
Projektleiterin Evaluation and Qualitat,
Gesundheitsforderung Schweiz, Bern Switzerland
sonja.stoffel@gmail.com

Lauren Murphy, PhD
Staff UX Researcher 
SiriusXM 
murphy.lauren.ann@gmail.com

Candace Nelson, ScD
Research Director
Integrated Benefits Institute
ccnelson2010@gmail.com

Susan Peters, PhD, BOccThy(Hons)
Research Scientist
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
sepeters@hsph.harvard.edu

Lisa Quintiliani
Associate Professor
Boston University School of Medicine
lmquinti@bu.edu

Silje Reme, PsyD, PhD
Professor of Psychology
University of Oslo
s.e.reme@psykologi.uio.no

Erika Sabbath, ScD
Associate Professor
Boston College Graduate School of Social Work
sabbathe@bc.edu

Grace Sembajwe, BSc, MSc
Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health
Indiana University Bloomington, School of Public Health
gsembajw@iu.edu

Emily Sparer-Fine, ScD
Director, Occupational Health Surveillance Program
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Emily.Sparer-Fine@state.ma.us

Sara L. Tamers, PhD, MPH
Office for Total Worker Health Coordination and Research Support
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
stamers@cdc.gov

Torill Helene Tveito, PhD
Research Group Leader, Uni Health, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway
Professor of Health Promotion, Buskerud and Vestfold University College, Horten, Norway
torill.tveito@uni.no

Jessica Williams, PhD
Associate Professor of Health Policy and Administration
Penn State College of Health and Human Development
jqw6242@psu.edu