Nancy J. Simcox

Nancy Simcox, MS, is Assistant Teaching Professor and the Director of the Continuing Education Programs for the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences. She develops and delivers research-based education programs for practicing professionals, including industrial hygienists, physicians, nurses, safety engineers and others in the environmental, health and safety field. Ms. Simcox has over 25 years of experience as a research industrial hygienist at both the UW Field Research and Consultation Group and the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health, where she conducted workplace site visits; designed exposure assessment protocols for evaluation, intervention and research; and performed data reduction and statistical analysis for health-based research projects.

Research/Teaching Areas: Occupational health intervention research. Exposure assessment. Indoor air quality. Built environment. Pesticides. Healthy Home Initiative. Green Chemistry.

Current Projects: As a Co-Director of the Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety, Simcox focuses on providing Region X with innovative, high quality continuing education for occupational health and safety practitioners and for their employers and workers. Our program maintains longstanding partnerships with occupational and environmental professionals and associations in the Pacific Northwest to meet the training needs of the region.