This month we review the role of work in public health and in population health research. Work, whether we have one or not, is central to our lives but it clearly does not have the major place in public health it should have. Why is it so? To answer this difficult question my guests are Emily Ahonen (Indiana University), Michael Wright (USW), Adam Finkel (Michigan University, former OSHA), Paul Landsbergis (State University of NY), and Celeste Monforton (Texas State University).