[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 124 (Friday, October 6, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1687]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     HONORING DR. LINDA ROSENSTOCK

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                           HON. DAVID R. OBEY

                              of wisconsin

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 5, 2000

  Mr. OBEY. Mr. Speaker, The National Institute of Occupational Safety 
and Health (NIOSH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
(CDC) are extremely fortunate to have recruited and retained one of the 
top occupational health physicians in the country to lead NIOSH over 
the past six years. As an internationally known authority in the field 
of occupational safety and health, Dr. Linda Rosenstock's steadfast 
devotion and visionary leadership have contributed significantly in 
establishing NIOSH as the model agency for occupational safety and 
health research. With this in mind, it comes as no surprise that she 
was recently selected as the new Dean of the School of Public Health at 
the University of California, Los Angeles, and while the CDC and NIOSH 
will miss her insightful leadership; young professionals and the public 
health environment as a whole will benefit in yet another way from her 
knowledge, hard work, and dedication to the field of occupational 
safety and health.
  In her role as Director of NIOSH, Dr. Rosenstock relied greatly upon 
input from industry, labor unions, academia, government and other 
occupational health and safety professionals to help guide the 
Institute in a new direction that would explore the changing nature of 
our nation's workforce and work environment. Much of this involvement 
came about through the introduction of the National Occupational 
Research Agenda (NORA), a framework for guiding occupational safety and 
health research that was developed in collaboration with 500 external 
partners. This along with the strategic relocation of the health and 
safety functions of the former Bureau of Mines, and the completion of a 
new state-of-the-art research facility in Morgantown, West Virginia has 
brought an annual appropriation increase of $85 million to NIOSH since 
Dr. Rosenstock's arrival in 1994.
  Dr. Rosenstock's hard work and dedication to occupational safety and 
health will long be remembered by this Congress and by the workers in 
this country who have benefitted from her efforts.

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