Preethi Pratap Ph.D.

Dr. Pratap, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at University of Illinois Chicago’s (UIC) School of Public Health. Dr. Pratap’s research focuses on application of systems thinking and participatory action approaches to engage stakeholders across the work ecosystem (academia, health care, corporations, government, and community organizations) to co-create knowledge and inclusive evidence for broader policy, systems, and environment change initiatives to promote and support workforce health and well-being. Her specific research interests include (1) conducting practice-based and equity-focused research to explore work as a social and structural determinant of health and its role in health inequities and (2) engaging employers, through Total Work Health® approaches, as key stakeholders in contributing to workforce and population health and well-being. Currently, Dr. Pratap is the principal investigator on the “Workforce Health and Well-being for All as a Sustainable Business Strategy” research project in UIC’s Center for Healthy Work, which is one of the ten Centers of Excellence for Total Worker Health in the country.