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Building Capacity of Health and Safety Professionals

Project Description

The primary goal of this project is to address the critical shortage of agricultural occupational health and safety researchers and program leaders by educating the next generation of agricultural safety and health (ASH) specialists through our graduate and continuing education program. This project does not include tuition or stipend support for students.

“Building Capacity of Health and Safety Professionals” to deliver clinical and intervention services to agricultural communities has the following specific aims:

• Develop a model core curriculum and competencies for training agricultural health and safety professionals for a regional and national audience.
• Expand the established Agricultural Health and Safety Certificate Training (AHS-CT) program to health care and safety professionals in 10 Midwestern states. Strengthen and expand the agricultural health and safety infrastructure, establishing 6 new AgriSafe Network clinics in the region.
• Introduce health professions students to the field of agricultural safety and health through a series of introductory lectures.
• Expand and achieve formal recognition of our didactic program of graduate education in Agricultural Safety and Health (ASH).
• Utilize distance education delivery methods to ensure broad dissemination of all education/translation programs.

Upcoming Agricultural Occupational Health Training Sessions

• June 9-13, 2008 - Iowa City, Iowa
• May 21-23 and June 18-20, 2008 - Springfield, Illinois
  

Project Officers

Kelley J. Donham, MS, DVM, Principal Investigator
Eileen Fisher, PhD, Co-Investigator
Kay Mohling, MA, Education Coordinator
LaMar Grafft, MS, Instructor
Murray Madsen, Instructor
Julia Venzke, Information Specialist
Aaron Kline, Research Assistant
Pat Francisco, Project Procurement

Training Session Photos

Agricultural Health and Safety Training - 2007 Class

Classroom presentations by leading experts

Problem solving in breakout groups

“Shopping” for suitable Personal Protective Equipment