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In 2001 the NORA Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD) team published a research agenda
entitled Research Topics for the Next Decade. The team collectively compiled a list of
national and international organizations and professionals interested in the area of
musculoskeletal disorders for dissemination. The team co-sponsored a conference,
“3rd Annual Applied Ergonomics Conference,” in March 2000 in Los Angeles, California.
At the conference the team organized a session focused on ergonomics issues in health
care that was open to the public. The team has organized a session at the Human
Factors and Ergonomics Conference in October 2001 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The
goal of the session is to inform professionals who are working on MSDs of the new
NORA MSD research agenda. During the coming months the team will be writing two
journal articles (for Professional Safety and Ergonomics) about the research agenda.
Future goals are to make the research agenda well known to the professional
ergonomics community and to begin partnering with foundations and other groups to
collectively work on the research agenda.
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