10:00 -11:00 AM: Introductions and update on current activities (talk-a-round)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM: Labor Project for Working Families - Netsy Firestein* (Director and founder of the Labor Project for Working Families, a non-profit
organization that works with unions to develop better workplace policies for families) will discuss the work of the Labor Project for Working Families.

12:30 PM-1:30 PM: Lunch - provided by the UCSF School of Nursing

1:30 PM -3:00 PM: Work stressors and MSD's - Cathy Heaney** (Associate Professor Psychology and Human Biology, Stanford University) will discuss her current longitudinal study of work stressors and MSD's which she is conducting with Bill Marras. NIOSH Funded Project is titled "Psychosocial and biomechanical
job demands and low back pain".

3:00 PM-5:00 PM: General discussion of assessment of populations with special needs (As researchers, we are aware that occupational hazards are known to be
distributed differentially, and workers with specific characteristics are more likely to be at increased risks of work-related diseases and injuries. Research is still needed to determine where special populations at risk are working, the conditions of work, and the extent and severity of disease and injury among these workers. This information is especially elusive for migrant and seasonal workers <http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hfw-index.html> , day laborers, part-time workers (including working youth), and self-employed contract and temporary workers.  Many of us in the CWHSG have had experience conducting surveillance or intervention projects among special population groups, and we think that it would be beneficial for those considering future research of workplace exposures and outcomes among special population groups to hear about the difficulties encountered along the way and innovative solutions to recruitment, surveillance methodologies and subsequent interventions). One benefit this type of dialog would be to inform the discussion to take place the following week at the NIOSH sponsored NORA conference.

Directions: The room is on the fifth floor across from the School of Nursing elevators. All room numbers at UCSF start with the initial of the building they are in
(thus, "N" for Nursing, "C" for Clinical Sciences).  FYI, there is no Floor One in the School of Nursing, the floors run from 2-7. The entry floor for the School is directly off the courtyard pictured on the website map below and is the Second Floor.

Alternatively, and recommended, do *not* enter through the Medical Sciences Building. Enter instead through the Clinical Sciences Building (up an
outside flight of stairs under an awning) and take the nearest elevator (just to the right of the entry), selecting the fifth floor. On exiting the elevator, make a 180 degree turn to the left, which will put you facing down the hallway of the School of Nursing fifth floor. N517 is near the end of the hall on the left.

*Netsy Firestein,
Phone: 510-643-7088
Fax: 510-642-6432
Labor Project for Working Families <http://www.laborproject.org/> 
2521 Channing Way, # 5555
Berkeley, California United States 94720

**Catherine A. Heaney, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor (Teaching)
Psychology and Human Biology
Stanford University
Jordan Hall Room 424
450 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-2130
650-736-8512
Winner of the 2003 Alice Hamilton Award for best paper in the Human Studies
Category:
Kermit G. Davis, William S. Marras, Catherine A. Heaney, Thomas R.Waters,
Purnendu Gupta. The impact of mental processing and pacing on spine loading
<http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/aliceabs02.html> . Spine, 27:2645-2653, 2002.