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Liz Borkowski is a Research Associate at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She lives in Washington, DC and loves public transportation and pumpkin empanadas.

Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH is a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She also spent a decade working for the US Department of Labor, and has served on the teams investigating the 2006 Sago mine disaster and 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster for the state of West Virginia.

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Recent Posts

• Beryllium manufacturer and union draft worker safety regulation, ask OSHA to move on it
• The significance of 2/13
• Awful House transportation bill forgets that transit benefits drivers, too
• Day-to-day Labor: The Hazards of Low-wage Temping in America
• Remembering Stephen M. Levin, MD, a clinician, scientist, advocate
• Unpaid OSHA penalties in fatality case involving Walmart's construction contractor
• Nine chronic diseases and their varied impacts
• OSHA proposes $21,500 penalty to firm where two 17 year olds lost legs
• Worth Reading: Alcohol in homeless shelters, fossil-fuel subsidies, and "suicide mosquitoes"
• Public health topics shine as finalists for investigative reporting prize

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• D. C. Sessions on Beryllium manufacturer and union draft worker safety regulation, ask OSHA to move on it
• Celeste Monforton on The significance of 2/13
• plutosdad on Awful House transportation bill forgets that transit benefits drivers, too
• MRW on The significance of 2/13
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• idlemind on Awful House transportation bill forgets that transit benefits drivers, too
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• Liz on Awful House transportation bill forgets that transit benefits drivers, too
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• John Newquist on Day-to-day Labor: The Hazards of Low-wage Temping in America

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