Dr. Maggie Morrissey-Basler
Assistant Professor of Health Sciences
Providence College
Dr. Maggie Morrissey-Basler is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Providence College and the Senior Advisor of Occupational Heat Safety at the Korey Stringer Institute housed at the University of Connecticut. She has over 35 peer-reviewed publications on heat stress, worker health, and hydration. In 2020, she led a 51-expert roundtable on strategies and resources to protect workers' health, safety, and productivity, which resulted in a consensus document used to inform OSHA’s heat stress regulation. She also serves as the Chair of the Thermal Stress Working Group at AIHA and a subcommittee member of the recently published ANSI/ASSP A10.50 heat stress construction voluntary standard. She has been invited to speak about heat safety at many safety events and conferences, such as NSC, VPPPA, AIHce, AIHConnect, and ACGIH. She has consulted with numerous organizations, such as UPS and Delta Airlines, to improve their heat stress management plans. She has dedicated her career to providing evidence-based guidelines to protect underserved working populations from heat stress through research, education, and advocacy initiatives.