LORRAINE CONROY
Lorraine Conroy
Primary Affiliation: Equity, Justice , and Human Flourishing Working Group; COVID-19 Task Force
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health | University of Illinois Chicago
Skill Highlights
Assessing Industrial Hygiene
Evaluation of Hazards in the Workplace
Environmental Science
Chemical Engineering
Policy Expertise
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Lorraine Conroy is a Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), School of Public Health, where she directs the graduate program in Occupational Safety. She serves as the Director for the UIC Center for Health Work, a NIOSH-funded Center of Excellence in Total Worker Health® The focus of the UIC Center is precarious work- understanding the scope of and working conditions associated with precarious work and developing multi-level intervention strategies to turn unhealthy work into healthy work. She is also the co-Director of the Occupational Safety Program and Director of the Pilot Projects Research Training Program in the Illinois Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Center.
Dr. Conroy is certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene and have more than 25 years of experience in research, curriculum development, and teaching in occupational and environmental health. Her expertise is in the evaluation and control of hazards in the workplace and community.
University of Illinois, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL.
Director of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, 2019 to Present.
Director of UIC Center for Healthy Work, 2018 to Present.
Professor, 2009 to Present.
Interim Dean of the School of Public Health, 2017.
Senior Associate Dean of the School of Public Health, 2012 -2017.
Director of Illinois Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety Education and Research Center (Illinois ERC), 1999 – 2015.
Associate Professor, 1995 – 2009.
Assistant Professor, 1988 – 1995.
Illinois Education and Research Center.
Director of Industrial Hygiene Program, 2019 to Present.
Co-director of Occupational Safety Program, 2012 to Present.
Director of Pilot Project Research Training, 1999 to Present.
Harvard University, School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA.
Teaching Fellow , 1985 – 1987.
Harvard University, School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA., M.S. 1984; Sc.D., 1988.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA., B.S. 1981, cum laude.
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Robin Fretwell Wilson is the Director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, where she served as the Associate Dean for Public Engagement. At IGPA, Professor Wilson also leads IGPA’s Substance Use Disorder Working Group. Robin Fretwell Wilson is the Director of the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, where she served as the Associate Dean for
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