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Karla Armenti

RESEARCH ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Project Director
Phone: (603) 862-2923
Office: Institute on Disability, 10 West Edge Drive, Durham, NH 03824

Dr. Karla Armenti joined the Institute in January 2016, bringing with her the New Hampshire Occupational Health Surveillance Program (NH OHSP), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The NH OHSP, previously housed in the NH Division of Public Health Services, now finds its home in the Institute through a bona fide agent agreement with the State.

Dr. Armenti has more than 30 years of experience in occupational safety and health with a focus on policy and public health. She has taught environmental and occupational health courses in the UNH Master of Public Health Program for over 15 years. In her work as Project Director of the NH OHSP and in teaching students, she stresses the social, political, and economic context within which occupational and environmental health function.

Dr. Armenti is a leader in occupational health surveillance and participates on several national topic-specific NIOSH workgroups. Her work is presented at national public health conferences, including the American Public Health Association and the Council for State and Territorial Epidemiologists. She is an active member of the NIOSH Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC), tasked with providing advice on standards of scientific excellence, current needs in the field of occupational safety and health, and the applicability and dissemination of research findings.

Courses Taught

  • PHP 902: Environmental Health
  • PHP 934: Work Env Policy & Hlth Workers
  • PHP 990: Field Study

Education

  • Ph.D., Work Environment, University of Massachusetts - Lowell
  • M.S., University of Massachusetts - Lowell
  • B.A., Norwich University

Selected Publications

  • Lauer, E. A., Armenti, K., Henning, M., & Sirois, L. (2019). Identifying Barriers and Supports to Breastfeeding in the Workplace Experienced by Mothers in the New Hampshire Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children Utilizing the Total Worker Health Framework. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, 16(4). doi:10.3390/ijerph16040529

  • Baris, D., Waddell, R., Freeman, L. E. B., Schwenn, M., Colt, J. S., Ayotte, J. D., . . . Silverman, D. T. (2016). Elevated Bladder Cancer in Northern New England: The Role of Drinking Water and Arsenic. JNCI-JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, 108(9). doi:10.1093/jnci/djw099

  • Russ, D. E., Ho, K. -Y., Colt, J. S., Armenti, K. R., Baris, D., Chow, W. -H., . . . Friesen, M. C. (2016). Computer-based coding of free-text job descriptions to efficiently identify occupations in epidemiological studies. OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE, 73(6), 417-424. doi:10.1136/oemed-2015-103152

  • Friesen, M. C., Wheeler, D. C., Vermeulen, R., Locke, S. J., Zaebst, D. D., Koutros, S., . . . Silverman, D. T. (2016). Combining Decision Rules from Classification Tree Models and Expert Assessment to Estimate Occupational Exposure to Diesel Exhaust for a Case-Control Study. ANNALS OF OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE, 60(4), 467-478. doi:10.1093/annhyg/mev095

  • Figueroa, J. D., Koutros, S., Colt, J. S., Kogevinas, M., Garcia-Closas, M., Real, F. X., . . . Silverman, D. T. (2015). Modification of Occupational Exposures on Bladder Cancer Risk by Common Genetic Polymorphisms. JNCI-JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, 107(11). doi:10.1093/jnci/djv223

  • Locke, S. J., Colt, J. S., Stewart, P. A., Armenti, K. R., Baris, D., Blair, A., . . . Friesen, M. C. (2014). Identifying gender differences in reported occupational information from three US population-based case-control studies. OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE, 71(12), 855-864. doi:10.1136/oemed-2013-101801

  • Figueroa, J. D., Han, S. S., Garcia-Closas, M., Baris, D., Jacobs, E. J., Kogevinas, M., . . . Silverman, D. T. (2014). Genome-wide interaction study of smoking and bladder cancer risk. CARCINOGENESIS, 35(8), 1737-1744. doi:10.1093/carcin/bgu064

  • Friesen, M. C., Park, D. -U., Colt, J. S., Baris, D., Schwenn, M., Karagas, M. R., . . . Stewart, P. A. (2014). Developing Estimates of Frequency and Intensity of Exposure to Three Types of Metalworking Fluids in a Population-Based Case-Control Study of Bladder Cancer. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE, 57(8), 915-927. doi:10.1002/ajim.22328

  • Figueroa, J. D., Ye, Y., Siddiq, A., Garcia-Closas, M., Chatterjee, N., Prokunina-Olsson, L., . . . Rothman, N. (2014). Genome-wide association study identifies multiple loci associated with bladder cancer risk. HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS, 23(5), 1387-1398. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddt519

  • Armenti, K. R., Moure-Eraso, R., Slatin, C., & Geiser, K. (2011). Primary prevention for worker health and safety: cleaner production and toxics use reduction in Massachusetts. JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 19(5), 488-497. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.07.006

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