Paige DeBaylo is the director of the Council’s MSD Solutions Lab. DeBaylo leads the Lab’s research efforts to advance accessible, practical and novel research related to emerging issues in the musculoskeletal disorders prevention space, including how workforce characteristics impact MSDs; assessing lesser-known MSD risk factors, like psychosocial and organizational factors; technologies for MSD prevention; and real-world MSD solution pilots featured in case studies. 

Before joining NSC, DeBaylo served as a senior research associate in the Austin Independent School District, where she analyzed employee and student data, and evaluated district programs and functions.

She brings deep expertise in quantitative and qualitative research methods, program evaluation, systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses, and survey development and validation. She has edited, reviewed and published occupational health, workplace stress, developmental psychology, and scale development and validation-related research papers in leading academic journals. She has presented her work at national conferences.

DeBaylo holds a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology from Auburn University, where she studied workplace stress and work-life balance. She completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.