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  • Research

    The research subcommittee focuses on the current state of research on nail salon and other cosmetology workers, including identifying research gaps and areas that need more in-depth research to promote worker health and safety.  The committee is grounded in a research-to-action approach in which research is conducted with the intent of informing policy and outreach efforts that directly affect the workers.

    As such, the committee takes on both a proactive role in advocating for necessary research needed to advance a healthy worker and safe workplace agenda as well as providing a support role to other committees to further their goals.  Key to several of the research studies conducted by members of the committee is the community-based participatory research framework, in which affected workers and other community advocates are actively engaged throughout the research process. For more information, download the report, Framing a Research Agenda to Advance Worker Health and Safety in the Nail Salon and Cosmetology Communities.

    The Collaborative and the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance have established a national multi-disciplinary Research Advisory Committee (RAC) consisting of experts in industrial hygiene, chemistry/biochemistry, toxicology, epidemiology, public health and environmental health sciences to provide expertise and technical guidance on our research, policy advocacy and outreach efforts.  The RAC* is comprised of:

    • Ann Blake, PhD, Consultant
    • Michael J. DiBartolomeis, PhD, DABT, California Department of Public Health
    • Lori Edwards, RN, MPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing
    • Mark Lim, PhD, Consultant
    • Tuan Nguyen, CSP, CIH, ARM, State Compensation Insurance Fund
    • Julia Quint, PhD, Consultant
    • Peggy Reynolds, PhD, Cancer Prevention Institute of California
    • Cora Roelofs, ScD, University of Massachusetts Lowell
    • Alexandra Gorman Scranton, MES, Women’s Voices for the Earth
    • Michelle Sommargren, PhD, California Department of Public Health
    • Mark Valenti, PhD, Analytical Sciences
    • Adelina Voutchkova, PhD, Yale University
    • Ami Zota, ScD, Program on Reproductive Health and Environment, UCSF

     

     

    *Note: The organizational affiliations of RAC members are listed for identification purposes only. While individual RAC members provide expert advice to the Collaborative/Alliance, their organizations and the members themselves may or may not endorse the Collaborative/Alliance’s activities.

    The Research Advisory Committee (RAC) is available to provide input on relevant research and science questions impacting the nail and beauty salon communities. If you or your organization would like to request input from the RAC, please download and complete this Research Advisory Committee Input Request form and email to Thu Quach at thu.quach@cpic.org. Thank you!