10/10/2023: What does Total Worker Health® have to do with Industrial Hygiene?

Dede has more than thirty-five years of experience working as an industrial hygienist and safety and health professional. Dede is currently the Program Manager for Our Good Health and Well-Being at Legacy Health based in Portland, Oregon. This program is funded through a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to advance specific goals focused on improving employee and provider well-being, including adoption of the TWH Approach. Dede previously served as the Outreach Core Co-Principal Investigator for the NIOSH-funded Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, worked as a consulting industrial hygienist, and was regional safety and health manager and industrial hygienist for EPA Region 10 long ago. She has a BA in Biology from the University of Montana and MS in Environmental Health Sciences from University of Washington where she was an appreciative recipient of ERC support. She is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and an active member of the Pacific Northwest Section of AIHA, past president of the Columbia-Willamette Chapter of ASSP, Board Chair of the Oregon Young Employee Safety Coalition, and has completed terms on ASSP’s Council on Professional Affairs and its Total Worker Health Task Force. Dede’s well-being “go to” outside of work is writing: she is both a blogger and published author.