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Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence: Building state and local capacity for foodborne illness surveillance and o

Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence: Building state and local capacity for foodborne illness surveillance and outbreak response. Kirk Smith MN, Carina Blackmore FL, John Dunn TN, Alicia Cronquist CO, Bill Keene OR Dale Morse & Don Sharp CDC. CSTE Annual Meeting June 12, 2013.

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  1. Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence: Building state and local capacity for foodborne illness surveillance and outbreak response Kirk Smith MN, Carina Blackmore FL, John Dunn TN, Alicia Cronquist CO, Bill Keene OR Dale Morse & Don Sharp CDC CSTE Annual Meeting June 12, 2013 National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases

  2. Designating the Centers of Exellence • FSMA required CDC to: • Improve surveillance/establish Workgroup • Designate five Food Safety Centers of Excellence • CDC BSC FSMA Workgroup provided guidance on designation criteria • ELC produced the FOA in summer 2012 • 11 state applications received by CDC • Objective review process used to select sites • Each site received $200,000 from CDC FY ’12 funding

  3. Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence • Headquartered at selected state health departments • Partnered with 1 or more institutions of higher education that have expertise in: • regional or national food production, processing, and distribution, and • laboratory, epidemiological, and environmental detection and investigation of foodborne illness Locations of current Centers of Excellence

  4. Center Site Collaborations

  5. Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence(Purpose) “To serve as resources for Federal, State, and local public health professionals to respond to foodborne illness outbreaks.” “… shall provide assistance to other regional, State, and local departments of health through activities…”

  6. Main Activity Areas Centers develop and share best practices through their 6 main activity areas: • Corresponding projects build upon each activity area • Centers are expected to communicate through workgroups to support individual efforts

  7. Activity Area 1 and Corresponding Projects Collaborate with frontline public health professionals to strengthen routine foodborne illness surveillance and outbreak investigations. • Conduct systems evaluations using the CIFOR Guidelines/Toolkit • MN: assist states or LHD during outbreaks • OR: conducted consultations with AK DOH

  8. Activity Area 2 and Corresponding Projects Evaluate and analyze the timeliness and effectiveness of foodborne illness surveillance and outbreak response activities. • Use proposed new CIFOR metrics and targets for evaluation

  9. Activity Area 3 and Corresponding Projects Train local and state public health personnel in epidemiological and environmental investigation of foodborne illness, including timeliness, coordination, and standardization of the investigation process. • FL and CO are conducting pilot training needs assessment surveys • CO is building catalog of existing outbreak training courses

  10. Activity Area 4 and Corresponding Projects Establish fellowships, stipends, and scholarships to train future epidemiology and food safety leaders • Not currently funded • Some Centers have initiated activities

  11. Activity Area 5 and Corresponding Projects Strengthen capacity to participate in existing or new foodborne illness surveillance and environmental assessment information systems. • Evaluating illness complaint reporting systems • Assessing other information systems

  12. Activity Area 6 and Corresponding Projects Conduct program evaluation [research] and outreach activities focused on increasing prevention, communication, and education regarding food safety. • Creating Center websites and standardized “design elements” • Developing research agenda for outside funding

  13. Center Websitewww.cdc.gov/foodsafety/centers/index.html About the Centers Flash Center Sites FAQs Resources Press Releases

  14. CoE Workgroups and lead Center • Academic coordination(Florida) • Training/workforce development(Colorado) • Communications/website(Tennessee) • Performance indicators/metrics(Minnesota) • Research issues(Oregon)

  15. http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/centers Questions?? Thank you! Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

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