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stakeholders, feedback mechanisms, and evaluation. In this case, the research team
from Washington State University, Oregon Health Science University, and Idaho
State University collaborate with NIOSH and the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), and other NIOSH Ag Centers as they listen to the needs of the part-
ners including other health and safety workers (H&S) and the diverse agricultural
community to identify the needs and share results of research.

ACTIVITIES

The activities that contribute to Goal 5 are summarized extensively in Chap-
ters 7-10. This section summarizes the activities of the Ag Centers that are related
specifically to knowledge diffusion and technology transfer.
Although the committee did not receive materials describing the NIOSH Edu-
cation and Research Centers (ERCs), a review of their Web sites showed at least
some research and educational activity devoted to agricultural issues by the ERCs
at the University of California, Davis, University of Iowa, University of Texas, and
University of South Florida. The others may have been active in the general train-
ing of practitioners in health and occupational safety.
In the evidence package, NIOSH reviewed the following major interventions:

• Agricultural health and agricultural safety promotion systems (1990-

1993)
• Occupational Health Nurses in Agricultural Communities (1990-1996)

• Community Partners for Healthy Farming Intervention Research (1996-

2003)
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Diffusion of safety innovations (1997-2005)

• Safe Communities coalitions (1998-2000)

• Certified Safe Farm (1998-present)

• Other outreach programs

Those programs are discussed in the evidence package, and it is not necessary to
describe them here except to note that they are all completed. The documentation
demonstrates numerous efforts from 1990-2005 to extend the results of research
into the respective communities. No new programs were proposed.

OUTPUTS

The outputs listed constitute a mixture of publications, abstracts, CD-ROMs,
booklets, pamphlets and fact sheets, training curricula, books, Web sites, and
presentations, but internal NIOSH staff are not differentiated from external AFF