Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program
The Occupational and Environmental Residency is an accredited, two-year training program for physicians, leading to board certification eligibility in occupational and environmental medicine.
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Initiative for Productivity and Health Management (IPHM)
In collaboration with Dr. David Christiani and Harvard Chan’s Office for Resource Development, OEMR Director Dr. Stefanos Kales has developed an Initiative for Productivity and Health Management (IPHM) housed within the OEMR.
Dr. Sam Forman, Harvard Chan Visiting Scientist and OEMR alumnus, was selected by our program to jumpstart the development of this new initiative. In 2011, Dr. Philip Parks, also a Harvard Chan Visiting Scientist and OEMR alumnus, was recruited to join Drs. Kales and Forman on the IPHM leadership team. Drs. Forman and Parks’ unique career trajectories and skill sets in health-related business strategy, chronic disease management, and clinical quality improvement bring added value to our traditional faculty, bridging academic and corporate environments.
About Productivity and Health Management
Productivity and Health Management seeks to maximize the health of the workforce and its dependents for the mutual benefit of employees and their employers. The emerging field recognizes the interrelation of employees’ health and well-being with employee satisfaction and an enterprise’s healthcare costs affected by all of the following: healthcare expenses, absenteeism, disability, turnover, and productivity.
Clinical as well as financial outcomes are of interest. PHM typically includes employees themselves as well as spouses, children, and others obtaining health insurance by way of employment status. Chronic illnesses such as hypertension, obesity, and diabetes are approached by way of employment-based health insurance benefits structures and targeted health interventions. Such interventions supplement traditional environmental health concerns caused or worsened by the working environment.
Increasingly, environmental health leaders are called on to lead and carry out such programs or to synergize with those who do. Business leaders are vitally concerned with the costs and structure of healthcare benefits and programs.
The Initiative at Harvard Chan School
This program fits within the structure of the existing training agenda. It provides a forum for academics pursuing work within the field from Harvard Chan, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, and elsewhere in the University, as well as for companies, worker organizations, insurers, specialized service ventures, pharmaceuticals, and authorities from other academic institutions. We envision teaching opportunities, directed research, and colloquia to bring academia and practice together.