We are happy to invite you to our second virtual speaker event with with Kaori Fujishiro, Ph.D., from the University of Washington, USA. In her talk, "The theft of economic power and its consequences: the role of the knowledge class (Yes, it's us.)", Kaori will present her research on workplace inequalities and power. As a social epidemiologist, Kaori has done extensive research on the impact of work on health inequalities. The speaker event is featured by the organizers of the FoWOP-Small Group Meeting (SGM) on ecological sustainability and social inequality and the Department of Psychology at the University of Innsbruck.

The speaker event will take place virtually on April 11, 2024, at 9:00 PM EST / 2:00 PM UK / 3:00 PM CET (Europe)

https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/68702502333?pwd=ejVSMWJOV3FYMzZpb1J2QXh5aCtNQT09

Meeting-ID: 687 0250 2333
Passwort: 385188

The event will take about 1 hour and will be followed by a 30-minute discussion of implications for the upcoming Small Group Meeting on ecological sustainability and social inequality.

All are welcome, regardless of knowledge and background, please join us for a friendly discussion. Please feel free to share this invitation with others who are interested.

Looking forward to seeing you there! 

About Kaori Fujishiro

Kaori Fujishiro, PhD, is a Senior Research Epidemiologist at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As a social epidemiologist in an agency dedicated to improving working people’s health, Kaori has done extensive research on the role work plays in creating health inequalities. Her position at NIOSH has afforded her a unique vantage point for seeing the great potential in linking population health science and occupational health science, two lines of research that so far have developed separately. Because work is governed by existing regulatory structures, research on health and health equity that focuses on work could produce directly actionable knowledge. This direction will be most fruitful if researchers examine the quality of work, not just the presence or absence of work, and interrogate how the quality of work is determined and distributed in society. Through her research, mentoring, and leadership opportunities, Kaori promotes the perspective of work as a structural determinant of health.