Expanding workplace health tracking for New Hampshire workers
Official title: Expansion of the New Hampshire Occupational Health Surveillance Program VTF
Funded at University of New Hampshire · NIH-11101096 · Data updated 2026-11-12
Building better tracking of workplace injuries, exposures, and causes of death to help protect people who work in New Hampshire.
Quick facts
| Grant type | NIH-funded research |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of New Hampshire NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Durham, United States) |
| Project start | July 1, 2021 |
| Project end | June 30, 2026 |
| Funding year | 2025 |
| Award (this year) | $283,077 |
| NIH project number | 5U60OH010910-11 |
| Project ID | NIH-11101096 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Ideal candidates are adults who work or have worked in New Hampshire—especially those in jobs with potential lead exposure, high overdose risk, high suicide risk, or who need workplace lactation support.
✕Less likely to help
People who do not live or work in New Hampshire or whose health is unrelated to workplace exposures are unlikely to benefit directly.
What this research studies
If I work in New Hampshire, this project would bring together many sources of health and job data to find who is getting hurt or sick on the job. The team will look at things like adult lead exposure, opioid overdoses, suicide deaths, infectious disease signals, and challenges facing older workers. They will add new data sources such as motor vehicle crash records and labor injury reports and collect industry and job information through surveys and death and cancer records. Partners across public health, OSHA, nonprofits, and state agencies will help turn the findings into workplace prevention ideas and policies.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, the project could spot workplace hazards earlier and inform policies or programs that reduce injuries, poisonings, overdoses, and work-related deaths for New Hampshire workers.
How similar studies have gone: Other state-based occupational surveillance programs have helped find hazards and guide prevention, but combining these varied data sources and focuses is a somewhat newer approach.
Where this research is happening
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University of New Hampshire
Durham, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Yang, Liu — University of New Hampshire
- Study coordinator: Yang, Liu
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.