SouthON Meeting

Brief Summary
This is a face-to-face meeting of the Southern States Occupational Health Network (SouthON). Through fostering outreach and collaboration with state, regional, and national occupational safety and health partners, the group’s goal is to build and strengthen capacity for surveillance of work-related injury and illness at the state and regional level. SouthON plans to accomplish its goal through:

• Developing and supporting relationships with key stakeholders (NIOSH and NIOSH-funded grantees including Education and Research Centers, academic institutions, state and federal OSHA, state epidemiologists, state health and labor agencies, and CSTE),
• Providing epidemiological and program planning tools and "best practices" to states,
• Providing dissemination, implementation, and evaluation resources for programs or policies for effecting state system-level beneficial  change
• Providing and supporting surveillance methodology and communication science
• Promoting mutually-beneficial collaboration among member states and federal partners that lead to adoption of science-based strategies, sound public policies, effective communication, and prevention intervention recommendations.