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NIOSH Science Blog highlights Center’s research on work-family conflict, sleep, and the heart

Orfeu M. Buxton, PhD, an investigator in the Center for Work, Health, and Well-being and Henrik Jacobsen, PhD, one of the Center’s former trainees, have co-authored a NIOSH Science Blog published on November 19, 2014.

The blog highlights the results of research on work-family conflict and sleep among healthcare workers. The research is funded by NIOSH through the Center for Work, Health, and Well-being. NIOSH promotes the blog via Twitter, Facebook, and email to a blog distribution list of 34,000 people. 

Dr. Buxton is Associate Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health; Lecturer on Medicine, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School; and Associate Neuroscientist, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. Jacobsen, PhD, is a researcher at the National Advisory Unit for Complex Symptom Disorders, St Olavs Hospital, and a clinical psychologist at the Center for Pain Management and Research, Oslo, Norway.