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Early Life Laura Linnan, once 17, was working a job at a McDonald’s in West Seneca New York. She immediately noticed the unsanitary conditions of the establishment. Workers and customers would slip and hurt themselves on the greasy floors. As a result, Linnan became passionate about safety in the workplace. Linnan earned a doctorate from Harvard T.H. Chan School. of Public Health and joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) faculty in 1999

Career Now, over fifty years from when Linnan was working at McDonald’s, she is studying workplace wellness as a professor in the UNC Gillings School of Public Health’s Department of Health Behavior. Dr. Linnan is not only on the scientific advisory board for the University of Washington Prevention Research Center, and on two Centers for Excellence in Workforce Health at Harvard University and The University of Iowa, bur she is also the founding director of the Carolina Collaborative for Research on Work and Health. In her career, she researches prevention and control of chronic diseases such as; cancer, strokes, arthritis, and diabetes. She has served on a variety of science advisory at places such as the CDC. Her fellow coworkers include students and community collaborators who plan, and evaluate interventions that take place in worksites, colleges/universities, stores, childcare centers, churches, public libraries and other community settings.

Awards In April 2019, Dr. Linnan published a paper titled “Results of the Workplace Health in America Survey”. Her paper was chosen by the American Journal of Health Promotion (AJHP) as the Editor-in-Chief Paper of the Year for 2019 and one of nine on the “Best of 2019 List.” As mentioned before Dr. Linnan became Associate Dean of academic and student affairs at Gilling’s School of Public Health at UNC.

References Arabella Sau, “UNC researchers find only 17.1% of employers offer comprehensive health programs” April 24, 2019. “Linnan honored with paper of the year award for research on workplace health in America” Gillings School of Global Public Health communications team January 23, 2020