Butch de Castro, PhD, MSN/MPH, RN is Assistant Professor and Director, Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing Program Psychosocial & Community Health at the University of Washington, Seattle. Dr. de Castro received a bachelor's degree in Nursing from UCLA. He completed his doctoral and master's level training at The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health specializing in occupational and environmental health.
He was also a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. His primary research interests include occupational health issues among immigrant and minority worker populations with an emphasis on how psychosocial aspects of work (such as workplace discrimination, unfair working conditions, work organization, and occupational downgrading) affect physical and mental health, and, how workplace safety and health hazards encountered by nurses and other health care workers contribute to work-related injury and illness.
He also has experience in national-level occupational health policy from both labor and government perspectives. He served as senior staff for occupational and environmental health at the American Nurses Association and, prior to this, was on staff in the Office of Occupational Health Nursing at the national office of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Dr. de Castro is an active member of the American Public Health Association (Occupational Health & Safety Section and Asian & Pacific Islander Caucus), the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, and the American Nurses Association/Washington State Nurses Association
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