Beth Rosenberg

Positions

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine

Director of Public Health Admissions Committee

Pending, director of joint MS engineering/ MPH track

Contact

Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111

Phone   (617) 636-6651
Fax (617) 636-4017
Email beth.rosenberg@tufts.edu
Education
Degree(s) BA Wellesley College, MPH Boston University School of Public Health, ScD University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Institution(s)
Research Focus

Occupational and environmental health; designing effective safety systems; creating systems of production that do not harm workers or the environment; drivers for corporations to create those systems of productions and overcoming obstacles that they encounter to this endeavor, public health improvements as social change.

Current projects include 1) investigating health and safety systems in former nuclear weapons production sites  2) exploring the effect of corporate social responsibility programs in Asian garment and footwear factories. 3) investigating hazards and benefits to construction workers of green construction 4) examining green innovation in companies.
Select Publications
      1. Bonnie K. Andrews, Susan Karcz, Beth Rosenberg. Hooked On A Feeling: Emotional  Labor As An Occupational Hazard of The Post-Industrial Age. New Solutions, Vol. 18(2) 245-255, 2008

      2. Rosenberg, Beth. Interface Carpet and Fabric Company’s Sustainability efforts: what the company does, the crucial role of employees, and the limits of this approach   Journal of Public Health Policy (in press, 2009)

      3. Mary Lee Dunn, Polly Hoppin, Beth Rosenberg Eula Bingham – Experience Bares “The Real World” and Smart Politics Saves Lives” New Solutions, Vol. 19 (1) 81-94, 2009

      4. Rosenberg BJ, Barbeau EM, Moure-Eraso R, Levenstein C. “The Work Environment Impact Assessment: A Methodologic Framework for Evaluating Health-Based Interventions” American Journal of Industrial Medicine vol. 39, no. 2 Feb. 2001 218-226

      5. Guest editor of special issue of New Solutions, A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy on “Food, Work and Environment” volume 10, number 4 2000 , including:

        Rosenberg, Beth “Food Work and Environment: Introduction” pp. 313-315, Rosenberg Beth J and Barbeau, Elizabeth M. “ A Bittersweet Report from a New Orleans Sugar Refinery: Working Conditions and Labor-Management Relations Deteriorate Together” pp. 377-382 ,and Rosenberg, Beth “Working to Give Justice a Chance – Interview with Kim Bobo” pp. 383-389

      6. David Kriebel and Beth J. Rosenberg “Lung cancer: another good reason to control silica” Cancer Causes and Control, 12: 785-787, 2001

      7. Rosenberg, Beth Second Thoughts about Silicosis, New Solutions, 13:3 2003

      8. Ken Geiser and Beth Rosenberg, “The Social Context of Occupational and Environmental Health" in Occupational Health, Recognizing and Preventing Work-Related Disease fourth edition. Barry S. Levy and David H. Wegman, editors. Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia 2005

      9. Rosenberg BJ, Levenstein C and Spangler E. Change in the World of Occupational Health: Silica control, Then and Now, Journal of Public Health Policy vol.26 (2) July 2005 192-203

      10. Supriya Lahiri, Charles Levenstein, Deborah Imel Nelson, Beth J. Rosenberg. The Cost Effectiveness of Occupational Health interventions: Prevention of Silicosis. Am. J. Ind. Med. 48:503-514 (2005)

      11. Tanios MA, El Gamal H, Rosenberg BJ, Hassoun PM: Can We Still Miss Tetrachloroethylene-Induced Lung Disease? The Emperor Returns in New Clothes. Respiration 2004;71:642-645

      12. Rosenberg  BJ, Levenstein C and Spangler E. Change in the World of Occupational Health: Silica control, Then and Now,  Journal of Public Health Policy vol.26 (2) July 2005 192-203

      13. Rosenberg BJ, Fulmer S and Yuan L The Ergonomics of Abrasive Blasting Operations: A comparison of steel shot and high pressure water . Applied Ergonomics 37 (2006) 659-667

      14. Supriya Lahiri, Charles Levenstein, Deborah Imel Nelson, Beth J. Rosenberg. The Cost Effectiveness of Occupational Health interventions: Prevention of Silicosis. Am. J. Ind. Med. 48:503-514 (2005)

      15. Bonnie K. Andrews, Susan Karcz, Beth Rosenberg Hooked On A Feeling: Emotional Labor As An Occupational Hazard of The Post-Industrial Age. New Solutions, Vol. 18(2) 245-255, 2008
 

 

 

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