The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and its partners in the public and private sectors, have developed the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) to provide a framework to guide occupational safety and health research in the next decade--not only for NIOSH but also for the entire occupational safety and health community. Approximately 500 organizations and individuals outside NIOSH provided input into the development of the Agenda. This attempt to guide and coordinate research nationally is responsive to a broadly perceived need to address systematically those topics that are most pressing and most likely to yield gains to the worker and the nation. Fiscal constraints on occupational safety and health research are increasing, making even more compelling the need for a coordinated and focused research agenda. The Agenda identifies 21 research priorities which reflect a remarkable degree of concurrence among a large number of stakeholders (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nora/).
In recognition of these research priorities, the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Utah co-sponsor an annual conference series intended to assemble interested students (undergraduate and graduate) and young/new investigators from the Intermountain Region (UT, WY, ND, SD, MT, CO) and other interested parties, in a forum where NORA-related research can be presented. The goal of this conference is to facilitate research presentations by students and young/new investigators in a non-threatening atmosphere. It is expected that, for many students, it will be the first formal presentation of their research.
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