Leaders in the Field Podcast

The Leaders in the Field Podcast series is dedicated to enhancing healthcare practitioners' understanding of the agricultural population, focusing on the unique healthcare needs, challenges, and contextual factors of agricultural workers.

By offering insights on health, safety, and well-being, this podcast aims to provide valuable knowledge that will help healthcare professionals deliver more effective, client-centered care to this underserved and unique community. This series is for a wide variety of healthcare practitioners, but applies occupational therapy principles to working with agricultural producers and their families, ensuring that practitioners are equipped to address the diverse and specific needs of this population in a client-centered and holistic way.

Hosted by Mackenzie Bevins, each episode delves into various aspects of healthcare and agriculture, featuring discussions with agricultural workers and their families, rural health experts, healthcare practitioners, and other leaders in their field.

Listen here: Podbean.

Mackenzie Bevins

Mackenzie Bevins is a Doctoral Capstone student from the University of Missouri Occupational Therapy Program. Her time as an occupational therapy student has helped her to recognize the importance of client-centered, evidence-based practice. Her passion for supporting underserved populations has driven her to focus on bridging the gap between healthcare professionals and the agricultural sector.

To better address the perceived need for more comprehensive resources about agriculture for healthcare practitioners, she has partnered with the Missouri AgrAbility Project at the University of Missouri Extension. She is the creator and host of the Leaders in the Field Podcast, a podcast that aims to educate healthcare practitioners on the unique needs and challenges faced by the agricultural community to increase quality of care and practitioner competency when serving the agricultural population.