Mission: To proactively address ongoing and emerging occupational safety and health issues affecting U.S. agriculture.
Goals for the Council include:
- Pursue national strategies to reduce agricultural injuries and fatalities, based on reliable data and emerging issues.
- Guide the development of effective delivery systems for safety and health through communications involving leaders representing producers, agribusiness, insurance, safety associations and others.
- Influence research priorities to rapidly identify best management practices for worker safety and health that maximize cost efficiency and sustainability.
A project of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, the Gateway provides a central place to access information about public health, agriculture, and the links between these two fields. It can be a useful resource for public health and agricultural professionals, advocacy and community organizations, policy makers, journalists, and educators.
A national membership organization, representing rurally-based
hospitals, health clinics, and county health departments that provide
preventive occupational health services for the farming community. One
of the few organizations focusing exclusively on the provision of health
and safety services to farmers and their families.
Promotes accessible behavioral health services for underserved
and at-risk populations affected by rural crisis in agricultural communities.
Serves farmers, ranchers, farm workers and the associated farm business
community and their families.
Assists rural Australians to attain improved levels of health and well-being by action to reduce the incidence and severity of injury and illness associated with life and work in agriculture.
The Australian Rural Health Research Collaboration is a collaboration of three research centres, established to address important inequalities in health between rural and urban communities, with many rural communities being disadvantaged with respect to their state of health and wellbeing, mortality rates and access to services.
A federal-state partnership to help rural communities and organizations identify and resolve issues and build rural health infrastructure. The office provides rural health advocacy and outreach, coordination of rural health resources and consultation to communities and health care providers in rural Iowa communities.
A national program of the Canadian Agricultural Safety
Association (CASA). CAISP was established in 1995 in response to the
need for better information about fatal and hospitalized agricultural
injuries. Provides statistics and reports.
Established in response to a need for a national farm
safety networking and coordinating agency to address problems of illness,
injuries and accidental death in farmers, their families and agricultural
workers. Since then, its mission has been to improve the health and
safety conditions of those that live, and or, work on Canadian farms.
Building on 20 years of leadership in agricultural safety and rural health issues, we have evolved into a new national centre of excellence which has an expanded mandate in the field of agricultural safety, rural health, delivery of training programs and knowledge translation. The Canadian Centre will continue to focus its resources on addressing public health issues related to the agricultural rural ecosystem and bridge gaps that occur between the spectra of basic research, applied research, the community and policy.
Conducts innovative public policy and economic research
on agricultural, environmental, and food issues. CARD uniquely combines
academic excellence with engagement and anticipatory thinking to inform
and benefit society.Communication efforts target state and federal policymakers;
the research community; agricultural, food, and environmental groups;
individual decisionmakers; and international audiences.
The CFSPH is a CDC Center for Public Health Preparedness and is the only Center to focus on veterinary medicine and zoonotic diseases. Located at Iowa State University,
the CFSPH has worked to increase awareness of bioterrorism, agroterrorism and foreign animal diseases among veterinarians, farmers, medical personnel and the general public.
Supports and conducts research to identify, measure and
prevent adverse health outcomes related to exposure to environmental
toxins. CHEEC organizes and participates in educational and outreach
programs, provides environmental health expertise to local, state and
federal entities, and serves as a resource to Iowans in the field of
environmental health.
Works to establish strong rural communities, social and economic justice, environmental stewardship, and genuine opportunity for all while engaging people in decisions that affect the quality of their lives and the future of their communities.
The CSF program is a multi-faceted
agricultural intervention research program designed to reduce the rate
of injuries and illnesses in the agricultural population. The program
consists of four main components that work together to offer the best
opportunity of changing attitudes and behaviors of participating farmers.
The Childhood Agricultural Safety Network (CASN) was formed to raise awareness and change behaviors to help keep children safer on the farm. The CASN is made up of child safety advocates that have banded together to produce marketing messages for the general public.
Works with maternal and child health, public health,
and other injury prevention practitioners to provide technical assistance
and information, facilitate the implementation and evaluation of injury
prevention programs, and conduct analytical and policy activities that
improve injury and violence prevention.
