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Publications
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| Community Resident Perceptions of and Experiences with Precarious Work at the Neighborhood Level: The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project | Hebert-Beirne, J., Felner, J. K., Berumen, T., Gonzalez, S., Chrusfield, M. M., Pratap, P., & Conroy, L. M. (2021). Community Resident Perceptions of and Experiences with Precarious Work at the Neighborhood Level: The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(21), 11101. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182111101 Read the article online here. |
| Demystifying How Academic-Community Partnerships Use Reflexivity and Praxis to Promote Participatory Research Principles of Equity and Justice. | Hebert-Beirne, J., Gonzalez, S., Chrusfield, M., Holloway, A., Lopez, J.P., Castañeda, D. (2023). Demystifying How Academic-Community Partnerships Use Reflexivity and Praxis to Promote Participatory Research Principles of Equity and Justice. In: Anderson, E.E. (eds) Ethical Issues in Community and Patient Stakeholder–Engaged Health Research. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 146. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40379-8_5 Read the article online here. |
| Development of the Healthy Work Collaborative: Findings From an Action Research Study to Inform a Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Capacity-Building Initiative Addressing Precarious Employment | Welter, C., Jarpe-Ratner, E., Bonney, T., Pinsker, E. C., Fisher, E., Yankelev, A., . . . Zanoni, J. (2020). Development of the Healthy Work Collaborative: Findings from an Action Research Study to Inform a Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Capacity-Building Initiative Addressing Precarious Employment. Health Promotion Practice. doi:10.1177/1524839920953116 |
| Employment precarity and increased risk of hazardous occupational exposures among residents of high socioeconomic hardship neighborhoods. | Bonney, T., Rospenda, K. M., Forst, L., Conroy, L. M., Castañeda, D., Avelar, S., … & Hebert-Beirne, J. (2022). Employment precarity and increased risk of hazardous occupational exposures among residents of high socioeconomic hardship neighborhoods. Annals of work exposures and health, 66(9), 1122-1135. Read the article online here. |
| Evaluation Results From the Healthy Work Collaborative: A Cross-Sectoral Capacity Building Partnership to Address Precarious Employment | Welter, C., Jarpe-Ratner, E., Bonney, T., Pinsker, E., Fisher, E., Deb, N., Yankelev, A., Kapadia, D., Love, M., & Zanoni, J. (2022). Evaluation Results From the Healthy Work Collaborative: A Cross-Sectoral Capacity Building Partnership to Address Precarious Employment. Health Promotion Practice, 152483992110690. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399211069099 |
| Health and Safety Issues for Workers in Nonstandard Employment | Ahonen, E.Q.; Baron, S.L.; Brosseau, L.M.; Vives, A. Health and Safety Issues for Workers in Nonstandard Employment. Oxford Research Encyclopedias. 2018. Read the article online here. |
| Impact of precarious work on neighborhood health: Concept mapping by a community/academic partnership. | Velonis, A. J., Hebert‐Beirne, J., Conroy, L. M., Hernandez, M., Castaneda, D., & Forst, L. Impact of precarious work on neighborhood health: Concept mapping by a community/academic partnership. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2019, doi: 10.1002/ajim.23055 |
| Leveraging Key Informant Interviews to Inform Intervention Development: The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project. | Grant A.K., Felner J.K., Castañeda Y., Pratap P., Hebert-Beirne J. Leveraging Key Informant Interviews to Inform Intervention Development: The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2023;0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/2752535X231196395 Read the article online here. |
| Research Methodologies for Total Worker Health®: Proceedings From a Workshop | Tamers, L.S; Goetzel, R; Kelly, K.. Luckhaupt, S.; Nigam, J.; Pronk, N.; Rohlman, D.; Baron, S.; Brosseau, L.; Sorensen, G.; et. al. Research Methodologies for Total Worker Health®: Proceedings From a Workshop. J. Occup. Environ. Med. 2018, 60, 968-978. |
| Role of technical assistance in U.S. labor and health sector collaboration to address precarious work | Tessa Bonney, Christina Welter, Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner, Alisa Velonis, Lorraine Conroy, Role of technical assistance in U.S. labor and health sector collaboration to address precarious work, Health Promotion International, , daaa124, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa124 |
| Support Decent Work for All as a Public Health Goal in the United States | Pratap P, Sokas R, Landsbergis P, Lewis N, Porter N, Gascon L, et al. Support Decent Work for All as a Public Health Goal in the United States. American Public Health Association policy document 20223, approved November 7, 2022. Click here to read the policy statement. |
| Total Worker Health | Edited by Heidi L. Hudson, Jeannie A. S. Nigam, Steven L. Sauter, L. Casey Chosewood, Anita L. Schill, and John Howard For more details click here. |
| Understanding the Role of Academic Partners as Technical Assistance Providers: Results from an Exploratory Study to Address Precarious Work | Bonney, T.; Welter, C.; Jarpe-Ratner, E.; Conroy, L.M. Understanding the Role of Academic Partners as Technical Assistance Providers: Results from an Exploratory Study to Address Precarious Work. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 3903. |
| Work as a social determinant of health; a landscape assessment of employers in two historically disinvested urban communities | Forst, L, Grant, A, Hebert‐Beirne, J. Work as a social determinant of health; a landscape assessment of employers in two historically disinvested urban communities. Am J Ind Med. 2020; 1‐ 9. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23174 |
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Webinars
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| Healthy Work Collaborative Labor Panel | Healthy Work Collaborative Labor Panel presented by Alison Dickson of the Project for Middle Class Renewal, Lonnie Golden of the Economic Policy Institute, and Ana Guajardo of Centro de Trabajadores Unidos. | Click here to view the webinar. Recording Password: qYwTCtg8 |
| How to Write a Case Study | How to Write a Case Study presented by Alan Talaga, Program Lead at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. | Click here to view the webinar. Recording Password: sVM2qSv3 |
| Organizing, Research, and Policy Approaches Towards Improving Job Quality in Nonstandard and Informal Work Arrangements | -Dawn Gearhart, Future of Work Campaign Director, Gig Economy Researcher, National Domestic Workers Alliance. Dawn is continuing her work from Norway where she conducts research to inform global governments and decision makers about issues and opportunities facing workers in the new economy. -Nik Theodore, Professor of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will share results of the National Domestic Workers Alliance's report, Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work. Based on surveys of 2,087 domestic workers in 14 cities, Home Economics sheds light on the health and safety hazards faced by informally employed nannies, house cleaners, and caregivers. -Maya Pinto, Senior Researcher and Policy Analyst at the National Employment Law Project, and co-author of Rights at Risk: Gig Companies’ Campaign to Upend Employment as We Know It, will discuss the corporate campaign to lock service sector workers into independent contractor status, stripping them of critical labor rights and protections. | Click here to view the webinar. Recording Password: iPCWj2i4 |
| Identifying and Preventing Work Stressors to Reduce Chronic Disease: The Healthy Work Campaign | Marnie Dobson, PhD Peter Schnall, MD, MPH Paul A. Landsbergis, PhD, MPH Center for Social Epidemiology & Healthy Work Campaign | Click here to view the webinar. Recording Password: mJ8uwwgG |