Agricultural Health and Safety Small Grant Program

aghealth@ucdavis.edu

Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS) provides grants to address research, outreach, or educational issues of 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
• Address mental health and workplace violence in agriculture
• Occur in Arizona, Hawaii, or Nevada
• Involve under-represented or early state investigators

Examples of funded projects

Eligible applicants are early stage and under-represented investigators located in or with project activities and research sites located in Arizona, California, Hawaii, and/or Nevada.

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 research staff and faculty

Up to $20,000 for postdoctoral scholars

Up to $10,000 for graduate students

Links to additional guidance and the application instructions are available on the program website.

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