NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

from the National Institutes of Health, which
is a much larger organization. We are interest
overlap, where we set priorities, they have
same fit offering to help fund research in
those areas.
We hope to do even more and a better job,
attracting funding in partnerships on through
all range of people and organizations during
the second decade of NORA. So, during the
second decade we’re still focusing on setting
priorities and conducting the highest priority
research. But we have an additional focus now
too, we particularly want to be able to move
those research results to have an effect, we
call this research to practice.
So having--making changes in work places,
principally through sector base partnerships.
And in order to have change in work places,
that’s a long process. And it involves
everyone, it involves the supervisors on the
floor, it involves workers and involves health
and safety professionals, organizations, OSHA
and NIOSH. Many, many halves are needed to
have change on the floor.
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