The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
The Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoE) have developed competencies for public health professionals who investigate...
Jun 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program...
May 10, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Most foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...
May 06, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
A recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on the latest data from the...
Mar 15, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
As expected, 2018 was another busy year in emerging infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To...
Mar 05, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
State and local public health departments report hundreds of foodborne illness outbreaks each year to CDC and are primarily...
Feb 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
This ECHO series has been designed to encourage foodborne epidemiologists to take advantage of a variety of data and tools available...
Feb 20, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will...
Jan 14, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoE) have developed competencies for public health professionals who investigate foodborne outbreaks. They invite you to participate in this short survey to evaluate the competencies, which will help guide the future development of CoE trainings and curricula. They are currently seeking feedback from environmental health professionals and...
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Voluntary National Retail Food Regulatory Program Standards (Retail Program Standards) are designed to help food regulatory programs enhance the services they provide to the public. This post is part of NACCHO’s Retail Program Standards blog series, showcasing the progress that communities across the country have made in retail […]
Most foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looked at 403 foodborne outbreaks reported to CDC’s National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS). An environmental assessment is an important part of outbreak investigations. It can determine how and why germs got into the environment and spread...
A recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused on the latest data from the Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet). The report summarizes preliminary 2018 data on eight pathogens spread commonly through food, including changes in incidence since 2015. The report and accompanying materials are now available at...
As expected, 2018 was another busy year in emerging infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). To reflect, the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) recently released the 2018 Accomplishments Report. This report describes the important work of NCEZID over the past year, none of which would have […]
State and local public health departments report hundreds of foodborne illness outbreaks each year to CDC and are primarily responsible for investigations of these outbreaks. Typically, investigations involve epidemiology, laboratory, and environmental health components. Health departments voluntarily report epidemiologic and laboratory data from their foodborne illness outbreak investigations to...
This ECHO series has been designed to encourage foodborne epidemiologists to take advantage of a variety of data and tools available to them when generating a hypothesis for an outbreak detected through pathogen-based surveillance. In the four, 1-hour sessions, foodborne epidemiologists will engage with peers and experts as they are encouraged to utilize a variety […]
The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will offer mini-grants, between $1,200 to $3,000 depending on number of applicants, to support state, tribal, local or territorial governmental food safety programs to learn more about the National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS) program. NEARS is a...
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