The call for abstracts for the 2024 Integrated Foodborne Outbreak Response and Management (InFORM) conference to be held January 22-24 in Washington, DC, will open in early August. This year’s theme is “The State of Enterics: Capitalizing on Opportunities.”
Submission Deadline: Friday, August 25, 2023 by 11:59 pm ET.
The abstract submission system will open in early August. Check back at neha.org/InFORM.
Review the full submission guidelines here.
Suggested Topics (but not limited to):
- Advanced molecular detection (i.e. whole genome sequencing, genomic epidemiology, and associated bioinformatics topics, etc)
- Case studies and cross-cutting outbreaks
- Climate change and enterics
- Culture-independent diagnostic testing
- Data modernization efforts
- Data visualization tools, dashboards, and applications
- Emerging and re-emerging food safety challenges
- Enteric antimicrobial resistance
- Environmental assessments/root cause analysis
- Epidemiologic methods
- Food or environmental sampling and testing
- Interagency or cross-jurisdictional coordination
- Global health
- Health education, including food safety
- Health equity and enterics
- Interagency or cross-jurisdictional coordination
- Multidisciplinary approach to investigation of foodborne outbreaks
- Norovirus investigation, response, and prevention
- Novel or innovative technologies
- One Health
- Prevention
- Risk communication, including outbreaks
- Surveillance and informatics
For questions about InFORM abstracts or the conference, please email [email protected].
