Carisa Harris Adamson

Carisa Harris Adamson, PhD, CPE is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). She is the Director of the Northern California Center of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of California at Berkeley, Associate Director of research for the California Labor Lab (a NIOSH Total Worker Health Center) and the Director of the UCSF/UCB Ergonomics Research & Graduate Training Program. Dr. Harris and her team performs research in a variety of areas focused on understanding and preventing work related injuries and improving human performance, productivity, and health. Her team applies machine learning to wearable device data for primary and secondary prevention purposes and performs various intervention studies on occupational tasks with high risk of musculoskeletal injuries and heat stress. Her epidemiological research assesses and adjusts for healthy worker survivor bias in the assessment of physical, personal and work psychosocial factors associated with musculoskeletal disorders and subsequent work disability. She and her team also engage in applied research for high injury sectors such as construction and janitorial work.