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OEMAC Agricultural Health & Safety Symposium

OEMAC Agricultural Health & Safety Symposium. John R. Gordon Director, Canadian Centre for Health & Safety in Agriculture (john.gordon@usask.ca). Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture. Research for Rural Health. CCHSA & Ag Med: a brief history. 1980’s

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OEMAC Agricultural Health & Safety Symposium

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  1. OEMAC Agricultural Health & Safety Symposium John R. Gordon Director, Canadian Centre for Health & Safety in Agriculture (john.gordon@usask.ca)

  2. Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture Research for Rural Health CCHSA & Ag Med: a brief history 1980’s Ag Health & Safety Network (5 RMs) Intn’l Symposia In Ag Health & Safety (1977-2008) 1970’s Centre for Ag Medicine (Dr. Jim Dosman) 2003-09; 2009-’15 CIHR STIHR National Training Program • Symposia Outcomes • Cdn Grain Dust Med. • Surv. Program (1977) • NIOSH Ag Med Program (1985) • CASA (Cdn Coalition…) (1992) Saskatchewan researchers & staff 1975 - 1 scientist, 2 staff; 2010 - 8 faculty, ≈30 staff & a national network of researchers 2004 - CCHSA National Research Network OEMAC, Oct ‘10

  3. Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture Research for Rural Health CCHSA: full cycle service to research to practice CCHSA National Research Network Ag Health & Safety Network Kendra Ulmer (BSN, MSc) CCHSA Knowledge Translation Stress of the Farm, Sleepless in Saskatchewan, H1N1 for Producers Cdn Dust Limits in Grain.. CCHSA National Training Program Dr. Don Voaklander Louise Hagel (BSN, MSc) Canadian Ag Injury Surveillance Program (CAIR, Sask Labour, CIHR) OEMAC, Oct ‘10

  4. Kendra Ulmer (Leader, AHSN) The Network 2010 200 RMs & >28,000 farm families Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture CCHSA’s Agricultural Health & Safety Network VISION:to improve health and safety on the farm through education, service and evaluation research. • Producer & family clinics • Stress on the Farm Initiative • Workshops • Newsletters • Website Library (35K hits/yr) OEMAC, Oct ‘10

  5. The CCHSA Centre for Research Development (2003 - 2010) Organic respiratory exposures, occupational hygiene & medicine, toxicology, water safety, injury epidemiology, rural health, animal-human health, social sciences, community resiliency, mental health, economics, psychology,

  6. Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture Research for Rural Health CIHR STIHR Program (PHARE [Public Health & the Agricultural-Rural Ecosystem]) Objective: to develop a critical mass of trainees who have a focus on agricultural and rural-related issues, who will provide an agricultural/rural perspective to their field of study and who will train future trainees. 2003-09, $285,000/yr for 8 Cdn universities - 65 researchers trained (MSc, PhD, PDF) 2009, renewed for 6 yr @ $325,000/yr - 8 Canadian partner universities - Internat’l partners (Mongolia [2], China [3], Africa, E. Europe [3]) - partnerships expanding (private sector, international) OEMAC, Oct ‘10

  7. CCHSA The Rural Wellness Centre CCHSA National Industrial-Agricultural Hygiene Laboratory (CFI-UofS matching funds, $15.2M) Sept 4, 2010 - artist’s rendition -

  8. CCHSA National Lab (to be commissioned in 2012-13) State-of-the-art: Respiratory Exposures Labs (4 sites) Environmental Health Labs (5 sites) Occupational Hygiene Labs (3 univ, 1 corp. &1 gov’t site) Injury Control Labs (2 sites) Rural Health Lab (6 sites Environmental Epidemiology (3 univ, 1 gov’t site), Commercialization (Univ & Corp), Knowledge Translation (Multiple sites) Tele-transmission (13 sites) Labs. Enhancements of existing facilities funded for Queen’s University (Injury Control Lab), Laval (Aerobiology Lab), Dalhousie (Water Quality Lab), and the Univ of Sask. OEMAC, Oct ‘10

  9. Q&A… OEMAC, Oct ‘10

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