Margaret M. Quinn, Sc.D. CIH
Director, and Professor, Work Environment Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell
Phone: (978) 934-3196
Fax: (978) 452-5711
Office: Kitson 204 C
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Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
University of Massachusetts Lowell
One University Avenue
Lowell, MA 01854
Biography
Dr. Margaret Quinn is one of the co-founders of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. She directs the Sustainable Hospitals Program that conducts research and provides technical support to help the health care community select more environmentally sound, healthy and safer materials. She recently completed a four-year $2M grant project awarded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to prevent needlestick injuries and blood exposures among home healthcare practitioners.
Dr. Quinn is an industrial hygienist with research interests in occupational and environmental exposure assessment, sustainable production, and work environment policy and practice. She received her undergraduate degree in biology from Brown University, two master of science degrees from the Harvard University School of Public Health (one in physiology, occupational health and the second in industrial hygiene), and a doctorate in industrial hygiene from the Department of Work Environment, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
She completed a year-long fellowship in occupational cancer epidemiology in Florence, Italy from the Italian Association for Research on Cancer. Before joining the faculty in the Department of Work Environment, she worked in occupational and environmental health research and practice with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Cancer, Florence, Italy. Dr. Quinn is certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene (CIH) by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.
