Voluntary Faculty
Voluntary Assistant Professor Dr. Lauren A. Murphy is a voluntary assistant professor of public health sciences in the Division of Environment and Public Health at the UM Department of Public Health Sciences and an industrial/organizational psychologist whose research focuses on occupational health psychology topic areas, including safety climate and work-life integration. Her work has examined employees in high-risk blue-collar occupations such as long-haul trucking and commercial construction. Dr. Murphy uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to conduct research, with an emphasis on mixed methods study designs. Her postdoctoral fellowship at the Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health extended Dr. Murphy’s expertise to macroergonomics and sociotechnical systems theory. She also serves as a preceptor for UM MD-MPH and traditional graduate public health students. Voluntary Assistant Professor Voluntary Professor 
Lauren Murphy, PhD
Department of Public Health Sciences 
Karen Polson-Edwards
Department of Public Health Sciences 
Rui-De Xue, PhD
Department of Public Health Sciences
