May 07, 2009
Dr. Bonnie Rogers

Dr. Bonnie Rogers

Bonnie Rogers, DrPH, RN, FAAN, associate professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s Public Health Leadership Program and director of the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center and the Occupational Health Nursing Program, has been elected vice president of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH).

The Commission is an international, nongovernmental, professional society whose aims are to foster the scientific progress, knowledge and development of occupational health and safety in all its aspects. It was founded in 1906 in Milan as the Permanent Commission on Occupational Health.

ICOH is the world’s leading international scientific society in the field of occupational health, with a multidisciplinary membership from 93 countries that includes occupational medicine physicians, occupational health nurses, industrial hygienists, safety professionals, ergonomists and others.

The organization’s most visible activities are the triennial World Congresses on Occupational Health, usually attended by some 3,000 participants, and the international meetings held each year by the 35 scientific committees of the organization. The election results were announced at the 2009 Congress in Cape Town, South Africa.

Rogers has practiced as a public health nurse, occupational health nurse clinician and educator and is a widely recognized researcher in the field of hazards to health care workers. She has published more than 150 articles and two textbooks, and is associate editor for a third text.

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UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu.

 

 

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