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UMASH featured in Voice of Agriculture

UMASH is one of several organizations featured in “Keep Safe, Keep Farming”, a special farm safety section in the September 2016 Minnesota Farm Bureau’s monthly newsletter.  UMASH’s dairy stockmanship training resources featured in the article promote positive animal care which is important for both animal and worker safety. …

UMASH at the Great Minnesota Get Together

UMASH was one of many studies in the University of Minnesota’s Driven to Discover Research Building activities during the 12 days of the 2016 Minnesota State Fair. Being at the Fair gave UMASH access to a large pool of volunteer participants for their study “Agritourism: the Next Frontier in Agriculture.” The goal of the study is to understand …

UMASH at Dakotafest 2016 Farm Show

Westward Ho!  To farm and ranch country we went to attend the annual Dakotafest farm show in Mitchell, South Dakota.  Carol Peterson and Ruth Rasmussen joined colleagues from the Iowa based Agricultural Safety and Health Center (Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health) for three days of networking with farmers, ranchers, reporters and agribusiness …

SPOTLIGHT: The Evolution of the Healthy Fairs Project – The Power of Relationships

SEPTEMBER 2016 Natalie Loots UMASH Evaluation Team Research Assistant, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota School of Public Health Relationships can often be the true measure of a project’s success. The Minnesota Department of Health’s Healthy Fairs pilot project has certainly experienced success in this way. Healthy …

UMASH at EPICOH 2016

Buenas Dias, UMASH! It was a good several days in Barcelona, Spain, September 4-8 when Bruce Alexander, Jeff Bender, and Amy Liebman presented at the 25th EPICOH Conference – “Occupational Health, Think Globally, Act Locally”. EPICOH is organized by the Epidemiology Committee of ICOH and covers major topics of current epidemiologic …