Q&A: Developing the OH evidence base

A Q&A with Tash Heydon, director of the independent research charity, the Colt Foundation

Summary:

Occupational Health [at Work] talks to Tash Heydon, the new director of The Colt Foundation, Britain’s only independent funder of research into occupational and environmental health.

 

What is the Colt Foundation, and what does it aim to achieve?

The Colt Foundation funds occupational and environmental health research focusing on social, medical and environmental problems associated with commerce and industry. When considering grant applications, the trustees look particularly for projects with potential to inform policy or working practices, and thereby to improve the health and wellbeing of workers or the wider population….

 

John Ballard, editor 

 

Author: Ballard J

Tags occupational disease oh physicians oh policies

Occupational Health at Work April/May 2020 (vol. 16/6) pp38-40

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