Our Team

John Staley, PhD, MSEH

Co-Director, Outreach Core

John Staley, PhD, MSEH, is co-director of the Outreach and Education Core. He also serves as the deputy director and director of Outreach and Continuing Education at the North Carolina Occupational Safety Health Education and Research Center (NC OSHERC) and is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Dr. Staley has over 20 years of experience as a preparedness and workplace safety and health researcher and instructor. He collaborates with the first responder and military communities to improve preparedness and response education and practice, as well as conducts research and translation of findings using a Total Worker Health® approach for issues impacting the health of vulnerable occupational groups throughout the Southeastern United States. He also teaches in the UNC Gillings Graduate Certificate in Total Worker Health®.