Agricultural Health and Safety Small Grant Program

aghealth@ucdavis.edu

Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS) provides grants for research projects that address agricultural health and safety in Arizona, California, Hawaii, and/or Nevada.

The overarching goal of the program is to encourage the development of creative research projects while nurturing researchers, particularly early career researchers, interested in improving agricultural health and safety for the Western U.S.

The program is designed to:

1. Fund short-term research projects to support the collection of preliminary data
2. Attract new investigators to WCAHS and the field of agricultural health and safety
3. Facilitate the exploration of innovative research directions
4. Engage and mentor early state investigators as defined by the National Institutes of Health

Priority is given to projects that:

• Include collaboration with cooperative extension farm advisors or farm labor contractors
• Identify an occupational health or safety issue attributable to the agricultural worksite rather than general community exposures
• Result in industry, community, and/or policy outputs

Examples of funded projects

Eligible applicants include investigators in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and/or project activities and research sites in those states.

Early-stage investigators are prioritized. Early-stage investigators include graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, research staff, and professors who have completed their terminal degree within the past 10 years and have yet to be awarded a substantial grant as a principal investigator.

Up to $30,000 for postdoctoral scholars, research staff, and professors and up to $10,000 for graduate students.

Application instructions are provided on the program website.

Email the completed application package in a single PDF file to aghealth@ucdavis.edu.