Maria Bulzacchelli is the Director of the Undergraduate Program in Public Health Studies. Dr. Bulzacchelli has worked in the field of public health for over 25 years. She earned her PhD in Health and Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to joining the Public Health Studies Program, she was an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She served on the Board of Health for the Town of Amherst, Massachusetts, from 2009 to 2012. Prior to entering graduate school she held positions at the Harvard School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital. She completed her undergraduate studies at Bowdoin College.

Dr. Bulzacchelli’s research interests are mainly in the area of injury prevention and control. Much of her work focuses on occupational injuries and safety-related behaviors, especially compliance with safety standards and worker behavior in hazardous industries such as manufacturing, tree care, and commercial fishing. The overarching objective of this work is to increase our understanding of the relationship between regulatory action, policy implementation, safety practices, and injury rates.

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Gould CA,* Frattaroli S, Williams DL, Bulzacchelli MT, Barnett DJ, Davis MF. When Things Go South, It Does Affect You: Perceptions of Vibrio- Related Occupational Risk and Harm Among Chesapeake Bay, USA,-Based Watermen. J Occup Environ Med. 2024 Dec 1;66(12):e635-e641. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000003247. Epub 2024 Oct 25. PMID: 39511842.

Bellantoni JM, Bulzacchelli MT, Orchard D, Sulman HB, Bartlett JJ, Dzugan J. Naloxone training and availability in the US commercial fishing industry. Am J Ind Med. 2023 Aug;66(8):687-691. doi: 10.1002/ajim.23491. Epub 2023 May 30. PMID: 37249103.

Bulzacchelli MT, Bellantoni JM, McCue-Weil L, Dzugan J. Field test of two mobile apps for commercial fishing safety: Feedback from fishing vessel captains. Work. 2023;75(3):927-937. doi: 10.3233/WOR-211454. PMID: 36683478.

Bulzacchelli MT, Bellantoni JM, McCue L, Dzugan J. The Receptivity to Safety-Related Mobile Apps Among Commercial Fishing Captains: Descriptive Exploratory Study. JMIR Form Res. 2022 Nov 8;6(11):e33638. doi: 10.2196/33638. PMID: 36346649; PMCID: PMC9682447.

Sulsky SI, Bulzacchelli MT, Zhu L, Karlsson L, McKinnon CJ, Hill OT, Kardouni JR. Risk Factors for Training-Related Injuries During U.S. Army Basic Combat Training. Mil Med. 2018 Mar 1;183(suppl_1):55-65. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usx147. PMID: 29635559.

Bulzacchelli MT, Sulsky SI, Rodriguez-Monguio R, Karlsson LH, Hill MO. Injury during U.S. Army basic combat training: a systematic review of risk factor studies. Am J Prev Med. 2014 Dec;47(6):813-22. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.08.008. Epub 2014 Nov 18. PMID: 25455122.

Julius AK,* Kane B, Bulzacchelli MT, Ryan HD 3rd. Compliance with the ANSI Z133.1 - 2006 safety standard among arborists in New England. J Safety Res. 2014 Dec;51:65-72. doi: 10.1016/j.jsr.2014.09.010. Epub 2014 Oct 5. PMID: 25453178.

Bulzacchelli MT, Vernick JS, Sorock GS, Webster DW, Lees PS. Circumstances of fatal lockout/tagout-related injuries in manufacturing. Am J Ind Med. 2008 Oct;51(10):728-34. doi: 10.1002/ajim.20630. PMID: 18702095.

Bulzacchelli MT, Vernick JS, Webster DW, Lees PS. Effects of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) standard on rates of machinery-related fatal occupational injury. Inj Prev. 2007 Oct;13(5):334-8. doi: 10.1136/ip.2007.015677. PMID: 17916891; PMCID: PMC2610620.