Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center Pilot Project Program

Judy Lysiak
206.616.1958
judy13@uw.edu

The Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (PNASH) provides funding for pilot projects for new and expanded research, prevention/ intervention, and education/translation activities in the area of occupational safety and health in Northwest farming, forestry, and fishing industries. Pilot projects are intended to inform future large-scale research projects to address the needs of agricultural workers. Special emphasis is given to projects that widen PNASH's existing work and those that support early stage investigators.

Priority areas include:

• Develop preliminary data or expertise to support new proposals
• Adapt or evaluate proven tools or techniques for new populations, workplaces, or delivery methods
• Evaluate the merit of new ideas, or new approaches to existing methodologies or datasets
• Explore new directions in research, prevention/intervention, and education/translation
• Apply their expertise to the field of agricultural safety and health
• Leverage emerging technologies in supporting a healthy, safe, and productive agricultural workplace

To be eligible for this opportunity, the principal investigator (PI) must:

• Be affiliated with an institution within the HHS Region 10 but may collaborate with researchers outside of the Region with specialties/expertise essential to the project
• Have a strong and demonstrated interest in agricultural worker health and safety, and/or is working in complementary or non-traditional disciplines and demonstrates cross-disciplinary applicability

PIs must also meet at least 1 of the following criteria:

• Trainees and early-stage investigators, such as post-docs, occupational medicine residents, fellows, graduate students, interested in advanced training in occupational health and safety research
• Trainees must list a qualifying advisor/mentor
• Investigators from other disciplines and institutions interested in developing innovative research efforts in collaboration with PNASH Center faculty
• Investigators within the PNASH Center are proposing innovative research directions and topics which they had not previously studied
• Regional stakeholders, provided they are working with eligible faculty members
• Previous pilot project awardees seeking new research directions are eligible to apply but will be additionally evaluated based on the productivity of the prior awarded project(s)

Up to $30,000 for a 1-year project period. Applicants also have the option of applying for a $5,000 supplement for projects with an education/research translation component.

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

Applicants must submit the pre-proposal application by June 3, 2024. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal, with a deadline of July 22, 2024.