McGuinn Hall 202
Telephone: 617-552-2934
Email: erika.sabbath@bc.edu
Workplace stress and health, occupational health impacts of organizational and public policy changes, and determinants of health among healthcare providers
Erika L. Sabbath, ScD, is Associate Professor in the Health and Mental Health field of practice. She is a social and occupational epidemiologist studying the contribution of the work environment, specifically workplace stressors and organizational and public policy changes, to population health and disparities. Much of her research has focused on work-related determinants of health and well-being among healthcare workers and other helping professionals.
She is the Co-Director and Multi-PI of the Harvard Center for Work, Health, and Wellbeing, a NIOSH-funded Total Worker Health® Center of Excellence. She currently has two major research projects. Since 2016, she has been the principal investigator of the NIOSH-funded md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç Hospital Workers Health Study (BHWHS), a longitudinal study of over 27,000 nurses and nursing assistants in the Mass General Brigham hospital system; BHWHS is the flagship research project of the Harvard Center for Work, Health, and Wellbeing. She is also the PI of the Study of OB-GYNs in Post-Roe America (SOPRA), a qualitative study of moral distress among OB-GYNs in states with restrictive policy environments that is funded by the Greenwall Foundation.
Her scientific contributions were recognized with the Early Career Achievement Award at the 2019 APA/NIOSH Work, Stress, and Health conference.
Sabbath, E.L., McKetchnie, S.M., Arora, K.A., Buchbinder, M. (2024). US Obstetrician-Gynecologists' Perceived Impacts of Post–Dobbs v Jackson State Abortion Bans. JAMA Network Open. 2024;7(1):e2352109.
Sabbath, E.L., Willis, M., Wesselink, A., Wang, T., Hatch, E.E., Wise, L.A. (2024). Association between job control and fecundability in a preconception cohort. Fertility and Sterility 2024 Mar;121(3):497-505.
Stelson, E.A, Sabbath-Clayton, L.L., Berkman, L.F., Kubzansky, L.A., Sorensen, G., Sabbath, E.L. (2022). Worker health and client care in residential addiction treatment: Identifying the role of social context. Social Science & Medicine.
Sorensen, G., Dennerlein, J., Peters, S.E., Sabbath, E.L., Kelly, E.L., Wagner, G. (2021). The Future of Research on Work, Safety, Health and Wellbeing: A Guiding Conceptual Framework. Social Science and Medicine 269( 2021): 113493.
Sabbath, E.L., Hawkins, S.S., Baum, C.F. (2020). State-level changes in firearm laws and workplace homicide rates: United States, 2011 to 2017. American Journal of Public Health 110(2): 230-236.
Moral distress among obstetrician-gynecologists in the post-Roe era
The Greenwall Foundation (Role: PI)
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Center for Work, Health, and Well-being (MPI: Sorensen and Sabbath)
Roles: Center Co-Director
Principal investigator, md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç Hospital Workers Health Study, 2021-2026
Multi-PI, Planning and Evaluation Core, 2021-2026
Co-PI, Older Workers Health and Wellbeing Study, 2024-2026 (PI: Halvorsen)