Total Worker Health (TWH) initiatives and strategies have been gaining traction globally as they offer a holistic approach to worker safety, health, and well-being. In countries like Mexico and Italy, certain TWH strategies have proven to be particularly successful. Join us for a discussion with experts on best practices for engaging businesses in TWH and exploration of how our international colleagues’ lessons learned can be applied to advance TWH globally.
Upon completion, attendees will have been exposed to:
- Understand how TWH is being applied in México and Italy.
- Discuss how successful International Total Worker Health implementation strategies may be applicable to advancing TWH in your country.
This is not a passive learning experience. The format is built for all participants to engage in the discussion together after the brief presentations to learn from each other and guest speakers invited from industry and the TWH community.
To ensure a meaningful discussion for participants, we are limiting participation to 60 attendees for this session. Any Society for Total Worker Health™ members on the waitlist will be given priority as spaces free up. Due to the large amount of interest in this program, we are exploring opportunities to continue this discussion.
Subject Matter Experts
Rebeca Velasco Reyna, MD, MSc
Rebeca Velasco Reyna is a medical surgeon with a specialization in Occupational Medicine. Dr. Velasco obtained her degree and works for the Faculty of Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS). In addition she obtained her Master of Science in in International Occupational Safety and Health from Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany and is a doctoral student of the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences with a focus on Risk Prevention at the University of Valencia. Currently, she serves as the National Coordinator of Occupational Health at IMSS. Dr. Velasco also serves as the Vice President of the American Commission for the Prevention of Occupational Risks of the Inter-American Conference on Social Security and the Technical Commission on Work Accident and Occupational Disease Insurance of the International Social Security Association (ISSA). Dr. Velasco is also a professor of the Occupational Health Diploma of the Department of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine, UNAM. She also spends her time as a speaker and organizer in various continuing medical education activities in occupational health at national and international events.
Claudia Gorian Montealegre, MA
Claudia Gorian Montealegre is a Petroleum Engineer, graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry at the Autonomous University of Carmen. She holds a Master’s degree in Administrative Innovation from the Faculty of Accounting and Administration at the Autonomous University of Campeche. She has extensive institutional experience, starting as a Specialist in Occupational Safety in the Campeche Representation, where she later became the Coordinator of Occupational Safety. Claudia then joined the central offices of the IMSS as the Coordinator of Programs in the area of Health Surveillance for Affiliated Companies. Currently, she serves as the Head of the Technical Support and Preventive Programs Area, where she has actively contributed to the New Normality Program and is part of the team that designed and implemented the ELSSA strategy.
Ivo Iaviocoli, MD, PhD
Ivo Iavicoli is a full Professor and director of the school of specialization in Occupational Medicine at the University of Naples Federico II. Ivo obtained his degree in medicine and surgery and his specialty in occupational medicine both cum laude at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart (Rome) and his Ph.D. in Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene at the University of Milan. His research is focused on Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene and Industrial Toxicology and documented by 251 publications and an H index of 46 (Scopus: May 2023). Dr. Iavicoli is currently Chair of the ICOH scientific committee on “Nanomaterial Workers' Health” and member of those on “Occupational Toxicology” and “Toxicology of Metals”, President of the Italian Society of Reference Values, President of the section Campania of the Italian Society of Occupational Medicine. He is a member of the Editorial Board of following journals: “Science of the Total Environment”, “Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine”; “Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology”, “Human and Experimental Toxicology”. He has also been Associate Editor of the international journal "Dose Response" and currently is the Associate Editor of the “La Medicina del Lavoro” and “Toxicology and Industrial Health”.
Veruscka Leso, MD, PhD
Veruscka Leso is an Assistant Professor in Occupational Medicine at the Department of Public Health of the University of Naples Federico II and a Medical Doctor at the Occupational Medicine Unit of the University Hospital “Federico II” in Naples, Italy. At the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Rome, she obtained her Degree in Medicine and Surgery in 2007 and her Specialization in Occupational Medicine in 2012. At the same University, in 2016, she obtained the title of Doctor of Research in Occupational, Environmental and Social Medicine. She was secretary of the "Toxicology of Metals" Scientific Committee of the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) for the period 2018- 2024. Today, Dr. Leso is the Chair of the "Nanomaterial Workers' Health" Scientific Committee for the three-year period 2024-2027. The main themes that characterize her research activity concern the toxicology of metals, even in nanometric dimensions, the environmental and biological monitoring of occupational exposures to xenobiotics, the evaluation and management of chemical risk, the health promotion in the workplaces and the impact of chronic pathologies on the working capacity of affected subjects. She is author of over one hundred scientific publications in national and international journals.
