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Northeast Center 2024 Year in Review Available Online

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Our Year in Review annual report is packed with stories of how we're serving the agriculture, fishing, and forestry communities. Whether we're connecting with commercial fishing colleagues at IFISH6, collecting data on tickborne disease on Vermont farms, or interviewing loggers in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and

Northeast Center Launches New Discussion Series on Farmer Health and Safety

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Join us for our inaugural session of Fields of Knowledge: Conversations about Farmer Health & Safety. These sessions aim to create meaningful dialogue between researchers and the farming community, fostering collaboration and shared understanding around key topics affecting farmer health and safety. First Session Farm Stress

Changing the Paradigm on Tackling Wicked Problems

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"Wicked problems" are problems with many interdependent factors, which make them seem impossible to solve. Improving agricultural safety and health outcomes is a wicked problem. This seemingly impossible challenge is what has propelled us to collaborate with Penn State University and Teagasc, the Irish Agriculture

Surveillance Research Efforts Highlight Innovation and Outreach

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Continuous Improvement in Processing Data Over the years, our surveillance research team has witnessed the transition from carbon copy paper records to electronic medical records, and the change from basic computing (floppy discs, anyone?!) to the explosive growth in computing power and machine learning. This

Renewed Focus on Farmer Mental Health

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At the Northeast Center, we are deeply committed to evolving with the changing needs of the communities we serve. Recently, we have become increasingly concerned about the rising levels of stress and mental health challenges among agricultural populations, especially in light of the rapidly shifting

Vermont Farm First Builds Capacity for Peer Support Network

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In 2023-2024, we awarded an emerging issues grant to Farm First to update their training materials, provide continued training, and conduct behavioral health risk screenings. Based in Vermont, Farm First has provided mental health training to farmers and agricultural service providers for years, and are

Harm Reduction to Save Lives

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As part of our commitment to agricultural health and safety, the Northeast Center has expanded its worker well-being initiatives to incorporate harm reduction strategies. Harm reduction is a public health philosophy that seeks to minimize the negative consequences of certain behaviors, such as substance use.

NEASHC Funds Ag Safety and Health Promotion

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Highlighting Our New Program In 2023, our Northeast Agricultural Safety and Health Coalition (NEASHC) introduced a new opportunity for Northeast states to receive $500 - $1000 mini-grant awards for activities that promote agricultural safety and health in rural communities. “Our scope for these awards is

Emerging Issue – Salmonella in Livestock Workers

12 months ago in

The CDC has issued a notice regarding a multidrug-resistant strain of Salmonella found in livestock workers. While most cases have been seen in public consumption/retail environments, there have been a few cases reported for livestock workers; the bacteria has been identified and isolated to cattle

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NEC Releases 2023 Year in Review Document

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Our Year in Review is a culmination of a busy 2023 here at the Northeast Center. From initiatives like our new r2p Incubator and On-Farm Health Assessments to established programs and innovative research, the Northeast Center continues to lead the way in occupational health and

Category: Farming

Northeast Center 2024 Year in Review Available Online

Northeast Center Launches New Discussion Series on Farmer Health and Safety

Changing the Paradigm on Tackling Wicked Problems

Surveillance Research Efforts Highlight Innovation and Outreach

Renewed Focus on Farmer Mental Health

Vermont Farm First Builds Capacity for Peer Support Network

Harm Reduction to Save Lives

NEASHC Funds Ag Safety and Health Promotion

Emerging Issue – Salmonella in Livestock Workers

NEC Releases 2023 Year in Review Document

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