Faculty Principal Investigators

Published on February 21, 2022 3:28 pm MT
Updated on May 9, 2022 11:48 am MT

Gwen G. Fisher, Ph.D. | Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Email: Gwen.Fisher@colostate.edu
Gwen Fisher earned a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Spanish at Penn State University. She completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in industrial/organizational (I/O) psychology at Bowling Green State University. During graduate school Gwen was a Research Consultant at IBM in Armonk, NY. From 2001 – 2013, she worked at the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan and taught in the M.A. program in I/O psychology at the University of Detroit Mercy. In 2013 she moved west to Colorado State University (CSU), where she is currently a tenured Associate Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Colorado School of Public Health. Since 2014 Gwen has directed the CSU Occupational Health Psychology training program, funded by the NIOSH Mountain and Plains Education and Research Center.

In terms of her research, Gwen is keenly interested in quality of work life issues. Her research program spans interdisciplinary boundaries to investigate individual and work factors related to worker health, well-being and organizational outcomes. To date she has published 54 peer-reviewed articles and 16 book chapters. In 2015 she and her coauthors received the award for “Best Paper in the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology in 2013-2014” for their paper on mental job demands and cognitive functioning. Her research has been funded by NIH-NIA, NIOSH, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Work, Aging, & Retirement, Occupational Health Science, Journal of Business and Psychology. Additionally, she directs the pilot projects program and serves on the internal steering committee of the Center for Health, Work, and Environment, a NIOSH Center of Excellent in Total Worker Health.

In 2020, Gwen became President-Elect of the Society for Occupational Health Psychology and was elected as a Fellow in the Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology.

Lorann Stallones, MPH, Ph.D | Applied Social and Health Psychology

Email: Lorann.Stallones@colostate.edu
Lorann Stallones, MPH, PhD, a Fellow American College of Epidemiology, is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, at Colorado State University, and the Director of the Colorado Injury Control Research Center. She received a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Cultural Anthropology, an MPH and a PhD from the University of Texas, School of Public Health, Houston, Texas. She was the founding Director of the Colorado School of Public Health at CSU, a partner in the interinstitutional school of public health and served in that position from 2008-2019. Dr. Stallones is nationally and internationally recognized as an occupational epidemiologist who has worked extensively in agricultural safety and health, studying youth working on farms, migrant farm workers, and farm owner/operators and their spouses. In 2005, an article she published was selected by the Editor of the Journal of Agromedicine as one of the best articles in first ten years of publishing the journal. In 2005 she received a research award from the National Institute for Farm Safety for major contributions to the prevention of farm injuries for an article published in Injury Prevention. Her interest in the relationship between suicide risk and pesticides began in 1990 when she reported extremely high suicide rates among farmers in Kentucky. She has studied neurological and neuropsychological symptoms associated with exposure to pesticides, primarily organophosphate pesticides and links with suicidal ideation and behaviors. She has published articles on the role of mindfulness in promoting well-being among working populations and formerly homeless individuals. She has published more than 180 peer reviewed papers and co-authored a book on global health in 2013 (White F., Stallones L., Last J. Global public health: Ecological perspectives. Oxford University Press. February, 2013). She served on the National Academy of Sciences Evaluation Committee to review the Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Research Program of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (2006-2007). She is a past President of the American College of Epidemiology. She has been principal investigator on grants totaling more than 11 million dollars from NIH and CDC. She has served on numerous review panels for CDC/NCIPC and CDC/NIOSH. She was selected as Professor Laureate in the College of Natural Sciences in 2011 and was awarded the Faculty Excellence in Research from the Colorado School of Public Health the same year. She received a Faculty Award for contributions to International Education, Colorado State University, in 2009-2010; 2010-2011; 2012-2013; 2013-2014. In 2019, she received the Excellence in Global Health Research award from the Center for Global Health at the Colorado School of Public Health.

Danni Gardner, Ph.D | Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Email: danielle.gardner@colostate.edu

Danni Gardner (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Colorado State University. Danni earned her B.A. in Psychology from Rice University before completing her M.A. and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology at Michigan State University. Her research broadly spans diversity and discrimination in organizations, with specific interests in understanding diversity management from an organizational justice lens, identity management processes and outcomes for historically marginalized employees, and discrimination manifestations across dimensions of subtlety and formality. Such work has been published in outlets including Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. She has consulted for numerous companies ranging in size and industry on topics such as employee selection, customer experience, and performance management systems. Outside of research, Danni enjoys binging the latest Netflix release, trying new restaurants, and taking spin classes.