Rosemary Sokas is Professor of Human Science at the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies and Professor of Family Medicine at the Georgetown School of Medicine. She has more than 30 years of experience in the field of occupational and environmental medicine and public health. She is an internist who provided primary care in safety net health centers in Las Marias, Puerto Rico and Bronx, New York, and subsequently specialized in occupational health and public health, serving as the Director of the Office of Occupational Medicine at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and as Associate Director for Science at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health/CDC. She has held academic positions at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Studies, and the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, where she conducted participatory action research and educational programs engaging workers, community members, and practitioners and students in medicine, public health, nursing and community peer education. Her research and career focus on occupational and environmental health for high risk, low-wage vulnerable populations. Her publications address the role primary care providers play in addressing the prevention needs of under-served working populations, and etiologic and intervention studies targeting hazards faced by construction workers, healthcare workers, immigrant day labor and home care workers, including the impact of contingent work and the need for supply chain and other policy interventions. Her interests include transdisciplinary collaboration and mixed-method approaches to addressing social justice concerns in the workplace and in the community.
