Barbara Lee is director of the National Farm Medicine Center and has directed the NIOSH-funded National Children’s Center for Rural and
Agricultural Health and Safety since its establishment in 1997. She has
chaired major efforts to set a national agenda for childhood agricultural
injury prevention and led initiatives to develop voluntary standards for
children’s work in agriculture and for protecting non-working children who
live on and visit farms. She is a past president of the International Society
for Agricultural Safety and Health and co-founded the Agricultural Safety
and Health Council of America, now based in Washington D.C.