DrJessie Adams

Jessie Adams is an Associate Research Fellow at Deakin University's National Centre for Farmer Health (NCFH), where her research focuses on improving the health, wellbeing and safety of farmers, their families, and rural communities through applied, collaborative and translational research.

Growing up on a family farm provided Jessie with firsthand insight into the opportunities and challenges of rural life and continues to shape her research priorities. Since joining the NCFH in 2018, she has contributed to various research projects addressing child farm safety, farmer suicide prevention, agricultural health and medicine education, the health impacts of extreme heat, chronic kidney disease, needlestick injuries, tailored farmer health and wellbeing assessments and agricultural community resilience. Her research has resulted in peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, research reports and industry resources, contributing to the evidence base for agricultural and rural health.

Jessie completed her PhD at Deakin University investigating the injury risk and safety behaviours among children on Victorian farms, establishing expertise in child farm safety and agricultural injury prevention. In recognition of her growing contribution to the field, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2024 to investigate international approaches to child farm safety across Ireland, Canada and the United States. This work strengthened her international research networks and will inform future directions for child farm safety research, policy and practice in Australia. A key focus of Jessie's work is ensuring research findings translate into meaningful outcomes for the communities they are intended to benefit.

Alongside her role at Deakin, Jessie is the Western Alliance Research Translation Coordinator across Western District Health Service and South West Healthcare. In this role, she supports research capacity building, research translation and collaboration between researchers, clinicians, health services and communities across western Victoria. This work complements her research activities by strengthening pathways between evidence generation and real-world implementation, with the ultimate goal of improving health outcomes for rural and regional communities.