This course will provide graduate nursing students with knowledge and skills needed to improve health outcomes of populations in occupational environments. Emphasis will be placed on research and policy development using nursing and interdisciplinary lenses. Further, this course will prepare the student to be proficient in the knowledge, skills, and abilities to effectively work with complex organizational systems and occupational settings. Students will learn how to utilize occupational data sets for the development of workplace research and policies at the local, state, national and global levels.