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The National Symposium on Agricultural Mental Health has been established to connect farmer mental health groups, researchers, government officials and policy makers, members of Canada’s agricultural community including agricultural associations and producer groups, individual advocates, and most importantly farmers to address the challenges and opportunities of the farmer mental health movement across the country.

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Canadian Centre for Agricultural Wellbeing

Josie Rudolphi, PhD

Josie Rudolphi, PhD, is an assistant professor and Extension specialist in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Rudolphi’s research quantifies the burden of mental health conditions among agricultural populations, identifies risk and protective factors, and considers socio-ecological interventions to improve mental health. She is the director of the North Central Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance, a 12-state collaborative that increases and expands stress and mental health services to agricultural producers, workers, and their families. She has her PhD in Occupational and Environmental Health from the University of Iowa. Dr. Rudolphi was raised on a corn and soybean farm in east central Iowa and remains involved in the operation.

Sue Brumby, PhD, MHM, GradDip Women’s Studies, GCert SciComm, GCert Higher Ed, Learning & Teaching, Dip Farm Management, RN. FAICD

Professor Sue Brumby is a distinguished expert in farmer health, rural mental health, safety, and primary prevention. She was the founding director of the National Centre for Farmer Health, where she provided visionary leadership for 13 years until July 2021. Her PhD, awarded in 2013, concentrated on the health, wellbeing, and safety of farm families across various agricultural sectors in Australia.

Prof. Brumby pioneered Australia’s first Graduate Certificate in Agricultural Health and Medicine, a community-engaged, interprofessional postgraduate course designed to enhance the cultural competence of health and rural professionals working in agricultural settings. She has successfully secured over 12 million AUD in funding between 2002 and 2023, leading numerous ARC and NHMRC grants as well as place based primary health service delivery to agricultural communities including the Sustainable Farm Families program.

With over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles to her name, Prof. Brumby has an h-index of 25 and an i10-index of 44 according to Google Scholar. She serves as the Chair of the Western Victorian Primary Health Network covering an area of 79,843 square kilometres.

Prof. Brumby has extensive experience in academia, having supervised a diverse range of students, including honours, postgraduate, psychology, and public health master’s students, and four PhD candidates to successful completion. She also managed the family beef and wool property.

In addition to her work in Australia, Prof. Brumby has presented and collaborated internationally, including in Canada, Bangladesh, Germany, India, New Zealand and Indonesia.

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This project was paid for in part by the governments of Canada and Ontario through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (the Partnership), a five-year, federal-provincial-territorial initiative.

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