Faculty Research

Agricultural Safety and Health

The overarching goal of this program is to increase the number of health care professionals and health and safety professionals who have knowledge and skills in anticipation, detection, diagnosis, evaluation and control of health and safety hazards of agricultural workers. Furthermore, we aim to increase the knowledge and skills of these students in research and policy issues of agricultural health.

ASH training makes specialists in agricultural safety and health out of occupational health generalists. Similar to other training programs (e.g. medicine and nursing) that create cardiologists, chest physicians or pediatric and geriatric nurses, this program creates agricultural hygienists from industrial hygienists, agricultural occupational health nurses from occupational health nurses, and agricultural occupational medicine physicians and agricultural ergonomists from their respective bases.

The following OEH faculty conduct Agricultural Safety and Health research:

Kelley Donham, MS, DVM

Risto Rautiainen, PhD

Wayne T. Sanderson, PhD, CIH

Research Centers:

Iowa's Center for Agricultural Safety and Health

Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health