Our Team
About the Center
The UIC Center for Healthy Work is comprised of faculty, students, and staff from the UIC School of Public Health, Department of Psychiatry, and UIC Law. Learn more about the backgrounds and research interests of those who work with the Center below.
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Kirsten Almberg
Center Director
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Elizabeth Fisher
Deputy Director, Co-Director Communications & Outreach Group
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Jeni M. Hebert-Beirne
Director of Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project
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Preethi Lakshmi Pratap
Co-Director of Workforce Health and Well-being for All as a Sustainable Business Strategy
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Emily Stiehl
Co-Director of Workforce Health and Well-being for All as a Sustainable Business Strategy
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Lorraine M. Conroy
Emeritus Center Director
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Dolores Castañeda
Research Associate
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Lorraine M. Conroy
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Sylvia Gonzalez
Project Manager
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Jeni M. Hebert-Beirne
Assistant Professor
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Renee Hatcher
Assistant Professor of Law
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Marjorie Kersten
Community Scholar
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Kathleen Rospenda
Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
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Preethi Lakshmi Pratap
Co-Director of Workforce Health and Well-being for All as aSustainable Business Strategy
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Emily Stiehl
Co-Director of Workforce Health and Well-being for All as aSustainable Business Strategy
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Bruce Sherman
Co-Investigator
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Elizabeth Fisher
Co-Director Communications & Outreach Group
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Mike Yen
IT/AV/Distance Learning Coordinator
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Rocio Bautista
Outreach Coordinator
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Soledad Álvarez Velasco
Lucha por tus Derechos/Fight for your Rights
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Yuka Asada
WIC Workforce Health and Safety
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Xóchitl Bada
Lucha por tus Derechos/Fight for your Rights
Tessa Bonney
Boone County Work, Mental Health, and Substance Use Study
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Alison Dickson
Precarious Times at Work: Detrimental Hours and Scheduling in Illinois and How Fair Workweek Policies Will Improve Workers' Well-Being
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Elizabeth Ann Jarpe-Ratner
Suburban Cook County Healthy Work Partnership
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Devangna Guddi Kapadia
Capacity Building for the Illinois Public Health Workforce
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Dana Madigan
Great Lakes Center for Farmworker Health and Wellbeing
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Laura Nussbaum-Barberena
Food Worker Project at Roosevelt University
Vanessa Oddo
Precarious Employment as a Determinant of Overweight and Cardiometabolic Risk; Employment Quality and Health Behaviors in the Aftermath of COVID-19
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Shelly Rauvola
Industrial-Organizational Psychology at DePaul University
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Kathleen Rospenda
Workplace Harassment, Macro-Level Stressors, Substance Use and Health Outcomes: A Long-Term Follow-Up
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Christina R. Welter
Suburban Cook County Healthy Work Partnership