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Core Faculty
Core Faculty
Director
Director
Dr. Yang's research concerns how workers navigate stressful and motivating aspects of their work environment, in order to maintain their well-being and productivity. Specifically, her work focuses on workplace mistreatment and its prevention in relation to occupational health and safety, worker engagement and affect regulation, and quantitative methodology.
Associate Director
Associate Director
Dr. Crain's research examines workplace health and safety, sleep and fatigue in relation to work, and work-family stressors. Her work often takes place in high-risk job settings and with underrepresented communities.
Associate Director
Associate Director
Dr. Mohr's research concerns interpersonal relationships and health among couples and in the workplace, particularly positive relationship processes that improve psychological well-being and buffer against stress-related behavior.
Faculty
Faculty
Dr. Randall's research provides insights into key workforce challenges, including how to (a) promote lifelong learning and development, (b) stimulate engagement in the face of distractions, and (c) reduce bias in personnel assessment. His studies are mixed-methods and he works closely with community partners in healthcare, education, and the military.
Faculty
Faculty
Dr. Paoletti-Hatcher’s research examines the way work-life experiences affect self-reported wellbeing, biological processes associated with quality of life, and diseases of older adulthood. She uses a biopsychosocial approach to study positive and/or stressful work-life experiences and associated interpersonal processes.
Faculty
Faculty
Dr. Dover's research focuses on the impacts of discrimination, stigma, and inequality on health and wellbeing. She has a particular focus on the impacts of organizational diversity initiatives on overrepresented and underrepresented groups, and often utilizes lab-based and field-based psychophysiological methods.
Emeriti Faculty
Emeriti Faculty
Professor Emerita
Professor Emerita
Dr. Hammer's research interests include work and family issues, employee mental health, total worker health, and more broadly employee well-being. She is currently the Director of the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center, Total Worker Health® Center of Excellence and the Associate Director for Applied Research in the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science University.
Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Truxillo's current research focuses on successful aging at work. This includes ways to assess and support employees’ work ability across the work lifespan.
Supporting Faculty
Supporting Faculty
Portland State
Dr. Kimberly Kahn’s research addresses subtle psychological bias and prejudice across domains, using experimental designs and implicit social cognition methods.
Portland State
Talya Bauer conducts research about relationships at work. More specifically, she works in the areas of recruitment and selection and new employee onboarding which have resulted in dozens of research grants, journal publications, and book chapters. She has been studying the onboarding process for over 30 years and she has acted as a consultant for dozens of government, Fortune 1,000, and start-up organizations.
Portland State
Portland State
Dr. Newsom is a quantitative and social psychologist with expertise on health, chronic illness, and longitudinal statistical methods.
Portland State
Dr. Skinner's OHP-related research interests include life-span development, motivation, development of perceived control, and coping.
OHSU
Dr. Huang focuses on safety prevention, workplace safety climate, and health and safety promotion.
OHSU
Dr. Hurtado's research interest include social determinants of worker health and interventions to promote worker health.
RMCOEH
Dr. Olson's research focuses on safety and health interventions for lone workers, and on behavioral self-management methods.
UT - Arlington
Dr. Martinez's work is focused on inclusion, diversity, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination in the workplace.
Affiliate Faculty
Affiliate Faculty
Dr. Charlotte Fritz
Dr. Charlotte Fritz
Dr. Fritz's research focuses on how employees unwind from work stress to maintain high levels of well-being and job performance. She is also interested in interruptions at work and their impact on employees as well as on organizational effectiveness. She further studies what makes employees be proactive and show initiative in the workplace.
OHP Advisory Board
OHP Advisory Board
The OHP advisory board is a collection of professionals with expertise in OHP-related areas ranging from occupational neurotoxicology to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. These volunteers share their knowledge and expertise by contributing to the development of Portland State University's OHP program (e.g., strategic planning and curriculum development), by identifying new OHP opportunities in the greater Portland community, and by presenting special guest lectures.
Senior Organizational Development Science Consultant, Workday
Laura Chisholm, Ph.D., MPH, MCHES
Laura Chisholm, Ph.D., MPH, MCHES
Injury & Violence Prevention Section Manager, Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division
Senior Manager for Education and Pertnerships, OHSU
Licensed Psychologist in the state of Oregon
Co-Director, Oregon Healthy Workforce Center
Scientist in Residence, Crosschq
OHSU
Dr. Huang focuses on safety prevention, workplace safety climate, and health and safety promotion.
President, Clarity Scientific
Professor, University of Utah & Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Current OHP Students
Current OHP Students
Anthony Nguyen
Anthony Nguyen
Person-environment fit, work motivation, work stressors, social support, leadership, withdrawal
Laura Yang
Laura Yang
Employee health and well-being, job attitudes, motivation, moods and emotions (including emotional labor and emotional regulation), cross-cultural psychology (particularly in emotions, social behavior, and family and social relationships)
Erika Schemmel
Erika Schemmel
Job insecurity, the work-family and work-nonwork interfaces, employee health and wellbeing, stress, support
Fernanda Wolburg Martinez
Fernanda Wolburg Martinez
Sexual harassment in the workplace, work-family conflict, supervisor support, diversity and health
MaryAnn Samson
MaryAnn Samson
Prosocial relationships, capitalization, positive psychology, work-family relationships, workplace stress
Alison Hunt
Alison Hunt
Employee well-being and performance (with regard to interpersonal work relationships and communication), work-family with special interest in deviance, mistreatment, and motivation in particularly high stress work environments
Nicholas Zike
Nicholas Zike
Positive organizational psychology, health, safety, affect, incivility, motivation
Sam Allen
Sam Allen
Employee health, well-being, motivation, and diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace, with a focus on underrepresented populations
Justin Banfi
Justin Banfi
Performance, retention, affect, informal learning, motivation, and mindfulness in workplace contexts, with a focus on enhancing employee well-being and effectiveness.
Recent Program Alumni
Recent Program Alumni
Megan Snoeyink
Megan Snoeyink
Research Associate
Pacific Research and Evaluation
Shalene Allen
Shalene Allen
Assistant Professor
Kansas State University
Jordyn Leslie
Jordyn Leslie
Assistant Professor
Weber State University & Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Katy McMahon
Katy McMahon
People Analytics Consultant
MFS Investment Management
Morgan Taylor
Morgan Taylor
Senior People Scientist
Culture Amp
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