Rate My Professor Nancy Simcox

Nancy Simcox, MS, is an Associate Teaching Professor in Health Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. She serves as director of the Occupational Safety and Health Continuing Education Programs within the department. Simcox develops and delivers research-based education programs tailored for practicing professionals, including industrial hygienists, physicians, nurses, safety engineers, and others working in environmental, health, and safety fields. With over 25 years of experience as a research industrial hygienist, she has conducted workplace site visits, designed exposure assessment protocols for evaluation, intervention, and research purposes, and performed data reduction and statistical analysis for health-based research projects. She earned her MS from the University of Washington and BS from Cornell University. Her career includes roles such as research industrial hygienist at field research groups and centers for occupational health, co-director of occupational safety centers, and co-investigator on grants including the Molecular Design Research Network led by Yale University and multiyear projects on green cleaning funded by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Simcox's research specializations encompass occupational health intervention research, exposure assessment, indoor air quality, built environment, pesticides, Healthy Home Initiative, and green chemistry. She chaired the Occupational Health and Safety Section of the American Public Health Association in 2020-2021 and serves as governing councilor in 2025. Additional contributions include advisory board membership for green chemistry programs, affiliate instruction in nursing and health studies, and faculty association with labor studies centers. She received the 2022 Safer Choice Partner of the Year award from the US Environmental Protection Agency for the Clean SHiFT project. Key publications feature 'Identification of processes that mediate the impact of workplace violence on emergency department healthcare workers in the USA: results from a qualitative study' (2019), 'Gendered Safety and Health Risks in the Construction Trades' (2018), 'Green chemistry & chemical stewardship certificate program: a novel, interdisciplinary approach to green chemistry and environmental health education' (2019), 'Introducing Toxicology into the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Using Safety Data Sheets and Sunscreen Activities' (2018), and 'The Molecular Design Research Network' (2017). Her efforts have significantly influenced professional training, research methodologies, and safer practices in occupational health.