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The Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH) is one of ten Centers of Excellence in Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education and Prevention funding by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

UMASH was established in 2012 and is headquartered in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota with collaborating partners in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota, at the Minnesota Department of Health, and at the National Farm Medicine Center of the Marshfield Clinic.

UMASH employs a One Health approach to addressing occupational safety and health issues in agriculture by recognizing the interrelationships between human, animal and environmental health. Researchers includes experts in epidemiology, occupational medicine, veterinary medicine, nursing, anthropology, communications, and evaluation.

Located in the Upper Midwest region of the United States, UMASH research includes projects addressing health and safety in animal agriculture. and how changes in production practices, surveillance of disease and injury in dairy workers, surveillance of zoonotic disease in agricultural workers, changes in the workforce,