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The National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) is a partnership program to stimulate innovative research and improved workplace practices. Unveiled in 1996, NORA has become a research framework for NIOSH and the nation. Diverse parties collaborate to identify the most critical issues in workplace safety and health. Partners then work together to develop goals and objectives for addressing these needs. The following types of information help inform the program’s priority setting process:
Participation in NORA is broad, including stakeholders from universities, large and small businesses, professional societies, government agencies, and worker organizations. Involvement ranges from providing input electronically to volunteering for a Sector Council.
The program entered its second decade with a new sector based structure to better move research to practice within workplaces. The national agenda will be developed and implemented through the NORA Sector Councils."
The diversity of NORA is one key to its success. The program celebrated its first decade of demonstrated impact advancing bodies of knowledge and implementing effective workplace interventions at NORA Symposium 2006.
NORA Symposium 2008: Public Market for Ideas and Partnerships advanced the emerging sector-based priorities by encouraging discussions and partnerships among researchers and occupational health professionals in all types of organizations.
