Occupational Health Disparities: Improving the Well-Being of Ethnic and Racial Minority Workers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781433826924)

Donald E. Eggerth, PhD, is a senior researcher with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He received his degree in psychology from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Eggerth is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 17 and 45) and a recipient of the Dorothy Booz Black Award for outstanding achievement in health psychology. He currently manages a portfolio of projects concerning Latino immigrant worker safety and health.

Chu-Hsiang (Daisy) Chang, PhD, is an associate professor in the department of psychology at Michigan State University. She received her PhD in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Akron. Her research interests focus on occupational health and safety, leadership, and motivation. Specifically, she studies issues related to occupational stress, workplace violence, and how employee motivation and organizational leadership intersect with issues concerning employee health and wellbeing. Her work has been published in Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Psychological Bulletin, and Work & Stress. She has served as an associate editor at Applied Psychology: An International Review and Journal of Organizational Behavior, and is currently serving as an associate editor with the Journal of Applied Psychology.

Michael A. Flynn, MA, is a social scientist with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) where he serves as the project officer for a program of research to better understand and improve the occupational health of immigrant workers. He also serves NIOSH as the coordinator for the Occupational Health Equity Program. He is an applied anthropologist whose research interests include social determinates of health, organizational culture, and intervention effectiveness as they relate to occupational health. Mr. Flynn has a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Cincinnati, and is a research fellow of the Consortium for Multicultural Psychology Research at Michigan State University.

J. Kevin Ford, PhD, is a professor and associate chair of psychology at Michigan State University. His major research interests involve improving learning and retention in the workplace through training and other learning activities. Dr. Ford also concentrates on organizational change and how to build continuous learning and improvement orientations within organizations. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He received his BS in psychology from the University of Maryland and both his MA and PhD in psychology from The Ohio State University.

Rubén O. Martinez, PhD, is a professor of sociology and director of the Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University. He is the editor of the Latinos in the United States book series with the Michigan State University Press. He has co-authored several books, including Chicanos in Higher Education (1993), Diversity Leadership in Higher Education (2007), and A Brief History of Cristo Rey Church in Lansing, MI (2012); edited volumes include Latinos in the Midwest (2011) and co-edited a volume titled Latino College Presidents: In Their Own Words (2013). His research interests include neoliberalism and Latinos, diversity leadership in higher education, education and ethnic minorities, Latino labor and entrepreneurship, and environmental justice issues.