UChicago’s Joseph Kanabrocki will participate in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Grand Rounds session on “Strengthening a Culture of Laboratory Safety” Dec. 15. The presentation will be webcast live at noon.
Kanabrocki, associate vice president for research safety and a professor in microbiology, will discuss “Establishing a Culture of Safety in an Academic Research Institution: Teaching Safety to Scientists.” He is part of a panel that will talk about how the standards of laboratory safety have improved over the years, what’s been learned from past incidents, and how establishing safety protocols and training systems can lead to an overall culture of workplace safety.
Kanabrocki recently chaired the External Laboratory Safety Workgroup of the Advisory Committee to the director of the CDC. Since last year the workgroup has reviewed and issued reports on laboratory safety programs at the CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration at the request of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
—Prof. Kunle Odunsi
