Jennifer M. Cavallari

Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences

Department of Public Health Sciences

Research Area(s) of Interest: ​

Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology

Dr. Cavallari’s research and practice is in support of worker well-being. She is a co-Director of the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace (CPH-NEW), a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Total Worker Health® Center of Excellence. She leads the Total Teacher Health project which address teacher mental well-being through a prospective cohort study examining factors influencing teacher stress and an intervention study that adapts, implements, and evaluates CPH-NEW’s Healthy Workplace Participatory Program to address educator mental well-being. Additional research projects include the WorkTime project that examines the influence of work schedules on worker and family well-being. Dr. Cavallari is also involved in Total Worker Health education and has designed and produced e-learning activities for professionals and students. In addition to research, she teaches in UConn’s Public Health Sciences and within the Occupational Health Psychology Proseminar within UConn’s Department of Psychology. She received her doctorate from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health where she also completed a post-doctoral fellowship.

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