Diane Bush, MPH

Diane Bush, MPH

Workforce Development Coordinator

Biography

Diane Bush (MPH, University of California, Berkeley) is an occupational and environmental health educator whose work has focused on young worker health and safety, participatory action research with forest workers, and support for health and safety programs and training in small businesses, workforce development programs, and schools. Bush completed a 3-year NIOSH-funded research project focused on identifying how to best support the development of health and safety skills in community college construction training programs. The results have been used to develop guidelines and teaching materials for Career Technical Education (CTE) and other workforce development programs. Currently she is working on two projects related to workforce development and high-road training partnerships.

Projects/Areas of Expertise

Occupational health education in workforce development; young worker health and safety; worker leadership training; small business health and safety programs

Publications

1.  Breckwich Vasquez V, Bush D, Wilmsen C. (2020). Power Sharing through Participatory Action Research with a Latino Forest Worker Community. In: Collaborating for Change—A Participatory Action Research Casebook. Greenbaum SD, Jacobs G, Zinn P, editors. NJ: Rutgers University Press. Chapter 8; p.95-111. 209p.

2.  Wilmsen C, Castro AB, Bush D, Harrington MJ. System Failure: Work Organization and Injury Outcomes among Latino Forest Workers. J Agromedicine. 2019 Apr;24(2):186-196. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2019.1567421. Epub 2019 Feb 8. PubMed PMID: 30734660; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6476664.

3.  Bush D, Chang C, Rauscher K, Myers D. (2019). Essential Elements for Effective Safety and Health Education in Postsecondary Construction Career Technical Education. New Solutions 2019, Vol. 29(1) 53-75.

4.  Bush D, Rauscher K, Chang C, Myers D, Scruggs K. (2017). Your construction safety program: Safe students, safe workers. A guide for administrators and instructors in post-secondary Career Technical Education (CTE) construction programs. Labor Occupational Health Program, University of California, Berkeley, CA. 101 pp.

5.  Rauscher KJ, Casteel C, Bush D, Myers DJ. (2015). Factors affecting high school teacher adoption, sustainability, and fidelity to the "Youth@Work: Talking Safety" curriculum. AJIM. 58(12):1288-99.

6.  Wilmsen C, Bush D, Barton-Antonio D. Working in the shadows: Safety and health in forestry services in Southern Oregon. Journal of Forestry. 2015; 113(3):315-324.

7.  Bush DE, Wilmsen C, Sasaki T, Barton-Antonio D, Steege AL, Chang C. (2014). Evaluation of a pilot promotora program for Latino forest workers in southern Oregon. Am. J. Ind. Med.. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22347

8.  Bush D, Andrews K. (2013). Integrating Occupational Safety and Health Training into Career Technical Education in Construction. U.C. Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program, CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training. 51 pages.