Coordinator of Public Programs
School of Public Health
Labor Occupational Health Program
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-5120
easkari@berkeley.edu
510-642-3148 Fax: 510-643-5698
 
Current Interests
• Workplace violence and domestic violence prevention at the workplace
• HIV/AIDS education at the workplace
• Bloodborne pathogen training for homecare workers
• Training on construction hazards
 
Key Publications
• El-Askari E, DeBaun B. 1999. The occupational hazards of home health care. In: Charney W, Fragala G, editors. The epidemic of health care worker injury. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. p 201-13.
• El-Askari E. 1998. HIV/AIDS training for union leaders. Silver Spring, MD: George Meany Center for Labor Studies. 350 p.
• Askari E. 1997. Violence on the job: a guidebook for labor and management. Berkeley, CA: UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program. 108 p.
• Askari E. 1996. Tools for developing a workplace violence prevention program. Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews 11(2):363-74.
 
Teaching
• "Health and Safety at the Workplace," Laney College and San Francisco State University, ongoing.