Interests: Occupational health intervention research. Exposure assessment. Indoor air quality. Built environment. Pesticides. Healthy Home Initiative. Green Chemistry.
Projects
As co-director of the Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety, Simcox provides Region X with innovative, high-quality continuing education for occupational health and safety practitioners and for their employers and workers. She maintains longstanding partnerships with occupational and environmental professionals and associations in the Pacific Northwest to meet the training needs of the region. With the continuing education team, Simcox also leads the Pacific Northwest OSHA Education Center that serves thousands of safety professionals in Region X to provide engaging standards-based, OSHA-authorized training designed to prevent and reduce workplace injuries and illnesses. Recent programs and activities available on the blog.
With interest and expertise in programs involving emerging chemicals and processes, Simcox received a University of Washington Earthlab Innovation Grant to bring together a multidisciplinary team to work with the food truck industry to promote best cleaning practices and technical assistance. She also served as a co-investigator of Education and Outreach for the Molecular Design Research Network, a multidisciplinary research team led by Yale University that focuses on the rational design of safer chemicals. As a current advisory board member of the Green Chemistry and Chemical Stewardship Certificate Program, she works with faculty and industry experts to develop green chemistry curriculum content and educational assessments. She also served as a co-investigator of a multiyear grant entitled "Green Cleaning: Exposure Characterization and Adoption Process Among Custodians," funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and National Institute of Environmental Health and Safety.
Most recently, Simcox increased student engagement with University of Idaho faculty to integrate a virtual reality training module into curriculum of courses of the Pacific Northwest OSHA Education Center.
