University of California at Los Angeles - Drs. Judith Siegel, Rena Repetti and Peter Schnall have developed a course titled "Work and Health" (CHS 278). The course is intended to be the first in a new minor introducing graduate students in the SPH and ERC (NIOSH Education Research Center) to issues regarding the role of work organization, and psychosocial factors in the development of mental and physical health problems of working people. The current course introduces students to the latest psychosocial stress models (e.g., job strain), documents their impact on mental and physical health (e.g., hypertension) and provides students through a practicum with hands-on skills at worksite assessment to identify the presence of these putative risk factors. This course is part of a larger initiative being conducted by the Southern California Centers for Occupational and Environmental Health on Psychosocial factors in the work environment titled STEP (for surveillance, training and early prevention). See www.workhealth.org for more details.