Technical Advisory Group on Occupational Burden of Disease Estimation (TAG-OBoDE)
The Technical Advisory Group on Occupational Burden of Disease Estimation (TAG-OBoDE) provides independent advice to WHO including its strategic priorities and plans of action on specific topics relating to burden of disease modelling for occupational health.

Background

The Technical Advisory Group on Occupational Burden of Disease Estimation (TAG-OBoDE) provides independent advice to WHO including its strategic priorities and plans of action on specific topics relating to burden of disease modelling for occupational health.

Its members have expertise in several areas including, but not limited to the following:

  • Burden of disease modelling;
  • Global health;
  • Occupational cancer;
  • Occupational epidemiology;
  • Occupational exposure science; and
  • Occupational medicine.

 

Objectives

This Technical Advisory Group:

  • Advises WHO on the evidence base and input parameters to produce estimates of exposure to occupational risk factors and occupational burden of disease;
  • Reviews WHO estimates of exposure to occupational risk factors and occupational burden of disease and provides technical feedback on these estimates; and
  • Contributes to the publication and dissemination of WHO estimates of exposure to occupational risk factors and occupational burden of disease.

 

Chair and other Members of the Technical Advisory Group

Professor Tim Driscoll

Co-chair

Professor of Epidemiology and Occupational Medicine and the Director of the Master of Public Health at the School of Public Health of the University of Sydney, Australia. This expert is from Australia.

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Michelle Turner

Associate Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Spain. This expert is from Canada.

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Dr Marissa Baker

Assistant Professor of Occupational Health Occupational Health at the School of Public Health of the University of Washington, USA. This expert is from the United States of America.

Dr Irina Guseva Canu

Associate Professor of Occupational Epidemiology at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. This expert is from Uzbekistan and France.

Professor Jian Li

Professor of Work and Health at the Fielding School of Public Health and the School of Nursing of the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. This expert is from the People’s Republic of China

Dr Jamaji Nwanaji-Enwerem

Emergency Medicine Resident Physician at the School of Medicine and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University, USA. This expert is from Nigeria and the United States of America.

Dr Susana Viegas

Assistant Professor at the National School of Public Health of NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. This expert is from Portugal.

Professor Paul Villeneuve

Professor at the Faculty of Science, Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. This expert is from Canada

Former chairs

Professor Paul Villeneuve

Professor at the Faculty of Science, Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. This expert is from Canada

Former members

Ms Hannah Kiiver

Statistical Officer at Eurostat of the European Commission, Belgium. This expert is from Germany.

Meetings

21 October 2022

Inaugural meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on Occupational Burden of Disease Estimation (TAG-OBoDE)

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Contact

For enquiries regarding the Technical Advisory Group, please send an email to TAG-OBoDE@who.int.