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

2. Research for Rural Health Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture CCHSA & Ag Med: a brief history 1980’s Ag Health & Safety Network (5 RMs) 2003-09; 2009-’15 CIHR STIHR National Training Program 2004 - CCHSA National Research Network Intn’l Symposia In Ag Health & Safety (1977-2008) 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 OEMAC, Oct ‘10 1970’s Centre for Ag Medicine (Dr. Jim Dosman)

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

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

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. Research for Rural Health Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture 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. CIHR STIHR Program ( PHARE [Public Health & the Agricultural-Rural Ecosystem]) 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. The Rural Wellness Centre - artist’s rendition - CCHSA (CFI-UofS matching funds, $15.2M) CCHSA National Industrial-Agricultural Hygiene Laboratory Sept 4, 2010

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

9. Q&A… OEMAC, Oct ‘10