Andrea M. Hricko is director of the Community Outreach and Education Program at the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (SCEHSC), and an associate professor in the department of preventive medicine at the USC Keck School of Medicine. She organizes projects that help translate the importance of SCEHSC's research to members of the community and that help SCEHSC scientists understand critical community concerns. Hricko is an experienced health and labor educator and administrator of public health programs. She served for three years as deputy assistant secretary of labor for the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and drector of the National Campaign to Eliminate Silicosis (MSHA/OSHA/NIOSH). She has written for Environmental Health Perspectives on environmental health topics and has produced films, handbooks and curricula for workers on health and safety. She is the principal investigator of the Center subcontract of the KICK Asthma L.A. campaign, is project director of the joint Center/CBE grant and serves on several community group advisory boards.

environmental health, critical community health concerns, health and labor education, health and safety of employees, elimination of asthma, elimination of silicosis