Shannon Frattaroli PhD
Professor
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Bridging Public Health and Industry: A Shared Framework for Advancing Safety Through Collaboration
Public health and industry don’t partner enough, but we should. Our two fields have many common interests, particularly when it comes to safety. Three categories with examples of how to operationalize each will provide a basis for considering how public health and industry can work together to achieve maximum safety gains. First, worker safety is a shared interest, and an area where public health and industry enjoy a shared history. Opportunities to expand on past success will be discussed. Second, incorporating safety considerations into product development to identify risks and reduce (or eliminate) safety threats before products reach the market is another promising area. Third, opportunities to develop products and services that improve safety and minimize injuries hold promise.
This discussion will be rooted in an injury prevention framework and highlight the complementary resources that academic institutions can bring to collaborations with industry.
Participants will learn about public health injury prevention research and be able to identify one or more ways that their own organizations can collaborate with public health injury prevention researchers to improve safety in the workplace, through the products and services they deliver – or both.
Shannon Frattaroli is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy. She holds a PhD (1999) and MPH (1994) from Johns Hopkins and a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Frattaroli’s work focuses on translating research into policies and practices that improve population health, particularly in the areas of injury and violence prevention. Her research interests include gun violence prevention, opioid overdose prevention, domestic violence, transportation safety, and fire safety, as well as the implementation of public health policies and qualitative research methods.
As director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy, she leads interdisciplinary teams conducting research to make homes, roads, and communities safer. Her work emphasizes bridging the gap between evidence and real-world policy implementation, often collaborating with policymakers, communities, and public health practitioners.
She also teaches courses on policy formulation and qualitative methods and has received multiple awards for teaching, service, and advocacy.