Jane Lipscomb

Director of the Center for Community Based Engagement and Learning (CCBEL) , University of Maryland Schools of Nursing and Medicine

Dr. Jane Lipscomb retired as Professor, University of Maryland Schools of Nursing and Medicine and Director of the Center for Community Based Engagement and Learning (CCBEL) in June 2017. During her 40 year career, she conducted research into the prevention of occupational injuries and illness, with a focus on the health care and social service workplace. Over the past 25 years, her research focused on participation interventions directed at workplace violence prevention. Dr. Lipscomb is currently Principal, at Prevention at Work, LLC. In this capacity, she provides expert testimony in federal OSHA enforcement cases involving the hazard of workplace violence. She also serves as co-chair of the Maryland Nurses Association’s subcommittee on workplace violence. Prior to joining the faculty, Dr. Lipscomb spent three years as a senior scientist in the Office of the Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and five years at the University of California, at San Francisco (UCSF) School of Nursing, as Assistant Professor and Director of the graduate program in Occupational Health Nursing. Dr. Lipscomb received her BSN from Boston College, her MS in occupational health from Boston University/Harvard School of Public Health and PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Lipscomb is the recipient of the University Of Maryland’s 2008 Founders Day Research Lecturer Award. She was inducted into the Collegium Ramazzini in 2013.