We lead or participate in several ongoing studies that are all focused on generating information to inform strategies that will prevent healthcare workers from developing occupational diseases from the work that they do. Disease Prevention is currently involved in the following research studies: Click on each article title to read more about the project.

• MSDS Database
  
• Infectious Diseases
  
• Hospital Cleaning Products and Occupational Asthma
  
• Exposure Assessment at Mission Memorial Hospital
• Acoustical Environments in VCH Health-Care Facilities, Phase 1: Measurement Tools and Pilot Studies
  
• Healthcare Workers Potential Exposure to Toxic Cleaning By-Products
  
• Developing a Sampling & Analytical Method for Measuring Exposure to Aerosolized Cytotoxic Drugs
  
• Occupational exposure to antineoplastic agents: Identifying the determinants of exposure and barriers to compliance with safe work practices.
  
• Strengthening N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Protection Programs by Evaluating the Contribution of Each of the Program Elements