Nancy Simcox

Director, UW DEOHS Continuing Education Programs

Nancy Simcox, MS is an Assistant Teaching Professor and the Director of the Continuing Education Programs for the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences where she develops and delivers research-based education programs for practicing professionals including industrial hygienists, physicians, nurses, safety engineers and others in the environmental, health and safety field. Ms. Simcox has over 25 years of experience as a research industrial hygienist at both the UW Field Research and Consultation Group and the Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health. She has served as a co-investigator on a number of grant projects involving occupational training for medical personnel treating patients with possible Ebola virus disease, workplace violence prevention in healthcare settings, reproductive health and work, virtual reality training, on-line agricultural medicine training, on-line green chemistry certificate program and online occupational disease training.