Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention

描述（由申请人提供）：肯塔基大学东南农业健康和伤害预防中心提议在下一个五年资助周期中继续作为 NIOSH 农业中心运作。该中心是公共卫生学院内的三个卓越中心之一。该中心位于授予土地的校园内，允许为本次更新项目聚集的主要学科之间进行非凡的合作：公共卫生、农业、行为科学、通信、经济学、教育、工程、流行病学、护理和毒理学。该中心的主题是改善东南部农业安全与健康的跨学科方法。选择跨学科主题，而不是多学科主题，反映了我们的教职员工以全面、协同的方式在彼此的专业知识和经验的基础上合作的能力。该中心的地理区域将是南部十个州：阿拉巴马州、佛罗里达州、佐治亚州、肯塔基州、密西西比州、北卡罗来纳州、南卡罗来纳州、田纳西州、弗吉尼亚州和西弗吉尼亚州。除了行政/规划/外展核心之外，总共提议了 11 个项目。其中，2个为综合性研究，3个为探索性研究；此外，两个是预防/干预项目，四个是教育/翻译项目。 11个项目中的问题代表了东南部农业中新出现的、被忽视的或持续存在的安全和健康问题，它们综合协调了包括农药监测、拖拉机翻倒、监狱农场劳工、苯暴露、水产养殖健康和安全、公共卫生和护理教育、与农民沟通等主题。行政核心为该中心提供管理、领导支持和战略规划，以及向十个州的外展活动。每年，都会征集并授予四项可行性项目拨款，每项拨款 12,500 美元。该中心致力于建设公共卫生基础设施，以减少农业、渔业和林业领域的职业伤害、死亡、中毒、疾病和疾病。肯塔基大学将提供 10 万美元的大量机构承诺和其他资源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention at the University of Kentucky proposes to continue functioning as a NIOSH Agricultural Center for the next five-year funding cycle. The Center is one of three centers of excellence within the College of Public Health. The Center's location on a land-grant campus permits extraordinary collaboration between the primary disciplines assembled for the projects in this renewal: Public health, agriculture, behavioral science, communications, economics, education, engineering, epidemiology, nursing, and toxicology. The Center's theme is Trans-disciplinary Approaches to Improve Agricultural Safety and Health in the Southeast. The choice of a trans-disciplinary theme, rather than a multidisciplinary one, reflects the ability of our faculty and staff to work together in ways that comprehensively and synergistically build on each other's expertise and experience. The geographic region of the Center will be the ten southern states of AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, and WV. In addition to an administrative/planning/outreach core, a total of 11 projects are proposed. Of these projects, two are comprehensive research and three are exploratory research; additionally, two are prevention/intervention projects, and four are education/translation projects. The issues in the 11 projects represent emerging, ignored, or persistent safety and health concerns in southeastern agriculture and they integratively coordinate topics including pesticide surveillance, tractor overturns, prison farm labor, benzene exposure, aquacultural health and safety, education in both public health and nursing, communications with farmers, and others. An administrative core provides management, leadership support, and strategic planning for the Center, as well as outreach activities to the ten states. Each year, four feasibility project grants at $12,500 each will be solicited and awarded. The Center strives to build public health infrastructure to reduce occupational injuries, deaths, poisonings, diseases, and illness in farming, fishing, and forestry. A substantial institutional commitment of $100,000 and other resources will be provided by the University of Kentucky.