Linda Delp

Linda Delp is the Director of the UCLA-LOSH Program.

Dr. Delp has a PhD from the UCLA School of Public Health where she researched job stressors and satisfaction among home care workers in California’s In-Home Supportive Services Program. She initiated the California Home Care Research Working Group and co-authored a policy brief describing workforce needs. Other research interests include job conditions of teenage and immigrant workers, the health and safety conditions facing workers in non-traditional and informal employment structures, the effectiveness of worker education and empowerment programs, and of workplace health and safety committees. She is particularly interested in the application of mixed methods to community based participatory action research.

Dr. Delp was previously Western Region Director of Health and Safety for the Service Employees International Union. She has more than 20 years of experience creating bilingual health and safety education programs for workers in the U.S. and Mexico and developing joint labor-management programs in a variety of industries ranging from manufacturing to meatpacking to health care. She teaches cross-disciplinary UCLA courses with students from public health, urban planning and labor and workplace studies. She taught the 2009 innovative Community Scholars program, “Green Buildings, Good Jobs, Safe Jobs: Social Justice Pathways to a Sustainable Los Angeles” which led to a City Hall briefing and Community forum. She is working to build bridges between the university, labor, environmental justice and community groups.

She is Director of the Western Region Universities Consortium HazWaste/HazMat Training Program and has expanded the program to include longshore workers at West Coast Ports. She serves on the Advisory Boards of Cal/OSHA and of WORKSAFE, a statewide policy organization; and is on the Executive Committees of the Southern California Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health and the Occupational Safety and Health Section of the American Public Health Association.

Selected Publications:

  • Delp L. “Women’s Hidden Work.” New Solutions 2010; 20(4):415-419.
  • Delp L, Muntaner C. “The Political and Economic Context of Home Care Work in California.” New Solutions 2010; 20(4):441-464.
  • Delp L, Wallace SP, Geiger-Brown J, Muntaner C. 2010. "Job Stress and Job Satisfaction: Home Care Workers in a Consumer Directed Model of Care." Health Services Research 45(4):922-940.
  • Lichterman J, Brown-Williams H, Delp L, Quinn M, Quint J. "Preventing Toxic Exposures: Workplace Lessons in Safer Alternatives." Perspectives, UC Berkeley, Vol. 5, Issue 1 (July, 2010).
  • Delp L, Stewart E. "Green Buildings, Good Jobs, Safe Jobs: Social Justice Pathways to a Sustainable Los Angeles." UCLA Community Scholars Program (2009).
  • Smallwood L, Wong K, Delp L. (eds.) "Women's Work: Los Angeles Homecare Workers Revitalize the Labor Movement." UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education (2009).
  • Delp L, Podolsky L., and Aguila T. December, 2009. "Risk Amid Recovery: Occupational Health and Safety of Latino Immigrant Workers in the Aftermath of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes." Organization and Environment Vol. 22:479-490.
  • Boris E, Chung G, Delp L, Matthias R, Zabin C. Workforce Needs in California's Homecare System. California Policy Research Center Briefing Paper (May, 2004).
  • Delp L, Palma G, Urita H, Arriaga M, Valenzuela A. The NAFTA Labor Side Agreement: Fading into Oblivion? UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education (March, 2004).
  • Delp L, Brown M, Domenzain A. July, 2005. Fostering Youth Leadership to Address Workplace and Community Environmental Health Issues: A University/School/Community Partnership. Health Promotion Practice Vol. 6, No.3, 270-85.
  • Delp L, Outman-Kramer M, Schurman SJ, Wong K, Eds. Teaching for Change: Popular Education and the Labor Movement. UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education, Los Angeles, California and George Meany Center for Labor Studies – The National Labor College, Silver Spring, Maryland (2003).
  • Delp L, Quan K. 2002. Homecare Worker Organizing in California: An Analysis of a Successful Strategy. Labor Studies Journal Vol. 27(1).