Research Interests
My interests include translation of occupational and environmental exposure research to the development of evidence-based guidelines for safer workplaces and improved environmental practices as well as management systems approaches to achieve organizational goals. . I’m also interested in the role technological change in workplace health and safety
Education
- University of Vermont B.A., 1983 Physiological Psychology
- University of Vermont B.S., 1987 Biology
- University of Vermont B.S., 1991 Civil and Environmental Engineering
- University of Vermont M.S., 1992 Environmental Engineering
- University of Massachusetts Lowell M.S., 2004 Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
- University of Massachusetts Lowell Graduate Certificate, 2004 Radiological Safety
Biosketch
My work experience includes 30 years in community health, education, health and environment program management in industry, consulting, and development and delivery of workplace training content. During this time, I’ve held positions in county-level mental health services, elementary, secondary and university instruction, telecommunications equipment manufacturing, professional consulting services and academic research. Research projects include: Nanotechnology EHS risk management information gap assessment in collaboration with The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and the Woodrow Wilson Center - Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN); Inhalation Exposure Assessment in Home Care Cleaning and Disinfection with the Safe Home Care Project (SHC); Interventions in the home work environment to improve occupational safety and health among home care workers (SHC).
Selected Publications
- Markkanen P.K., Brouillette N.M., Quinn M.M., Galligan C.J., Sama S.S., Lindberg J.E., Karlsson N.D. (2021). “It changed everything”: The Safe Home Care qualitative study of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on home care aides, clients, and managers. BMC Health Services Research 21, 1055. Available open access.
- Lindberg J.E., Quinn, M.M., Gore R.J., Galligan C.J., Sama S.R., Sheikh N.N., Markkanen P.K., Parker-Vega A., Karlsson N.D., LeBouf R.F., Virji M.A. (2021). Assessment of home care aides’ respiratory exposure to total volatile organic compounds and chlorine during simulated bathroom cleaning: An experimental design with conventional and “green” products. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2021.1910280. Available open access.
- Quinn M.M., Markkanen P.K., Galligan C.J., Sama S.R., Lindberg J.E., Edwards M.F. (2021). Healthy Aging Requires a Healthy Home Care Workforce: the Occupational Safety and Health of Home Care Aides. Current Environmental Health Reports. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-021-00315-7. Available open access.
- Sama S.R., Quinn M.M., Galligan C.J., Karlsson N.D., Gore R.J., Kriebel D., Prentice J.C., Osei-Poku G., Carter C.N., Markkanen P.K., Lindberg J.L. (2020). Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on home health and home care agency managers, client and aides: a cross-sectional survey, March to June 2020. Home Health Care Management & Practice 2021, Vol. 33(2) 125–129. https://doi.org/10.1177/1084822320980415.
- Lindberg JE, Quinn MM. A Survey of Environmental, Health and Safety Risk Management Information Needs and Practices among Nanotechnology Firms in the Massachusetts Region. The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 2007 December; PEN Brief1.