NIOSH, in building on its “extraordinary capacity” in epidemiology, faces four general challenges, a new report by NIOSH chief John Howard and co-author William Halperin finds: applying epidemiology to ensure the safety of new advances in commerce and technology; leveraging resources to help states build capacity in occupational safety and health; supporting a robust system to train health and safety professionals, and to sustain trainers; and addressing worker safety and health needs in an era of increasing globalization.
