In a paper published in June 2023, Can Better Leadership Reduce Nursing Home Staff Turnover?, Dr. Jessica Williams and colleagues found that nursing homes with leadership that communicated and demonstrated commitment to worker safety, health, and well-being had relatively fewer nurses leave during the study period, with turnover rates approximately 10% lower than homes without.
In this viewpoint piece "Lessons From COVID-19 for Protecting Workers in the Next Pandemic", David Michaels, Gregory Wagner, M.D., and Lillian Ryan address some of the missteps during the COVID19 pandemic to protect health care workers and how to use lessons from those mistakes for future pandemics.
Center Director Glorian Sorensen named one of the Ten Most Influential Women Scholars in Health Promotion.
Read more about the impact of the Thriving From Work Questionnaire: Dimensionality, Reliability, and Validity of the Long and Short Form Questionnaires, featured in the Research Rounds of NIOSH's May 2023 e-Newsletter.
The U.S. Surgeon General released a framework in October of 2022 highlighting the essential role that workplaces play in promoting and supporting the mental health and well-being of workers and communities. The Work and Well-Being Initiative, led by Center researchers Lisa Berkman, Erin Kelly, and Meg Lovejoy, served as advisors in the creation of the framework.
