Florence Becot, Ph.D., associate research scientist with the National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, is part of a team that received the Excellence in Scholarship award from the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society.
Dr. Becot and colleagues Shoshanah Inwood, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, and Andrea Rissing, Ph.D., Arizona State University, received the award June 3 during the society’s annual conference at Boston University.
Becot, Inwood and Rissing conduct research on the social and economic challenges faced by farm households. They seek to understand how access to quality affordable health care impacts both the quality-of-life of farm households and farm business development and resilience. The society acknowledged their research as making a vital contribution to farm viability, rural economies and quality of life.
To bring awareness to the social and economic challenges experienced by farm families, as well as their consequences, Becot and Inwood are helping to organize a one-day online conference, Sept. 13, supported by the Farm Foundation. Selected papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of the journal Agriculture and Human Values.
You can find more information on the National Farm Medicine Center website.
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