The Weight of Work: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Employment and Overweight
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
12:00 PM-1:00 PM
The department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Dornsife presents guest speaker Vanessa Oddo, assistant professor of Health Services at the University of Washington's School of Public Health.
Oddo is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on the population health of workers and aims to characterize psychosocial occupational hazards and their relation to chronic disease. In particular, her NIH-funded study investigates the association between precarious employment and obesity and cardiometabolic risk in the U.S.