If you’re a mental health professional or health care provider who wants to engage more effectively with farming clients, AgKnow can help you make the connection. At AgKnow, we are working to increase the resiliency of farming communities by destigmatizing mental health and reducing barriers to services.  It is our goal to create better connections between farmers their families and the health care and mental health professionals that support them.

Join us and Dr. Michelle Pavloff Network and Research Chair of Rural Health at Saskatchewan Polytechnic and founder and lead researcher for the SaskAgMatters Network, for a one hour webinar to explore her research on the unique needs and culture of farmers as they pertain to health care provision. This webinar would be most useful to health care and mental health professionals working with rural farm clients in western Canada.

about the presenter

Dr. Michelle Pavloff is the principal investigator of the award-winning Saskatchewan Farmer and Rancher Mental Health (FARMh) Initiative. Her areas of research include patient-oriented research, rural nursing, telephone-based social programs for rural older adults, farm culture, and farmer/rancher mental health. She is the former president of the Canadian Association for Rural and Remote Nursing. Michelle is the Research Lead and founder of the SaskAgMatters Network and member of the Saskatchewan Centre for Patient Oriented Research (SCPOR) Affiliated Research Alliance. She resides with her family on a ranch in rural Saskatchewan.

Currently the Research Chair of Rural Health at Saskatchewan Polytechnic, Michelle holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a Master of Nursing degree, and a PhD. She is currently attending Harvard Medical School as a post graduate certificate student with a focus on effective writing for health care.

She holds a faculty position with Saskatchewan Polytechnic and is an Adjunct Professor (University of Regina) in the Saskatchewan Collaborative Bachelor of Science in Nursing program.