Overall Program Assessment - Agriculture Forestry and Fishing Research at NIOSH - page 50

• National Action Plan: Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention (1996)

• Second National Fishing Industry Safety and Health Workshop (1997)

• TRAC: The Policy Conference (1997)

• Construction-Agriculture-Mining Partnership (CAMP) Workshop (1999)

• International Fishing Industry Safety and Health Conference (2000)

• ASH-NET Agricultural Safety and Health Conference (2001)

• Summit on Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention (2001)

• Second International Fishing Industry Safety and Health Conference

(2003)
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National Symposium on Agricultural Health and Safety (2004)

• Third International Fishing Industry Safety and Health Conference

(2006)

It is not possible to characterize how well the AFF Program outputs are dis-
seminated as a whole. Because there is no unified, program-wide approach to
transfer activities, the program relies on individual centers and investigators to
undertake the process of research-to-practice. In general, it is more difficult to ac-
complish transfer activities on a larger scale, so the projects that are most success-
ful are probably the ones that have a manageable number of stakeholders or that
have partners and existing infrastructure to facilitate widespread dissemination of
outputs. The success of transfer activities also depends on the targeted audience.
If the primary “consumer” of an output is the community of agricultural health
and safety researchers and professionals, presentation at a professional conference
or research symposium or in the peer-reviewed literature can be a highly effective
means of transfer. Because of the diverse nature of the numerous intervention re-
search projects undertaken and differences in the targeted consumers and partners,
some projects are more successful than others; there is no standardized objective
means of evaluating the success of transfer activities.

Intermediate Outcomes

The committee lists here a number of the contributions of AFF Program re-
search to inform public policy and regulatory action.
State-level policies in which AFF Program research informed decision-
making:

• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) article in August 2004
about chloropicrin drift exposure in California (CDC, 2004) provided justification
of new legislation in California requiring growers to reimburse medical expenses
incurred by persons injured by pesticide drift.