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Improving Hand Hygiene through Innovative Campaign Advertising and Community Outreach
By: Kyle Foerst, M.S., Emergency Response Planner, Saint Louis County Department of Public Health Seasonal influenza occurs annually...
Oct 20, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
The CIFOR Toolkit: A Powerful Training Resource Advancing Foodborne Outbreak Response
By Scott E. Holmes, REHS, MS, Environmental Public Health Manager, Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department What do you get when you...
Oct 06, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
CDC Awards New Antibiotic Resistance and Food Safety Funds to Health Departments
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is awarding $30 million to state and local health departments supporting their...
Aug 04, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
New Food Safety Performance Measurement Tool
The Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) recently released a new data entry tool to support state and local health...
Jul 19, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman
Foodborne Illness Trends
The CDC’s Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network, FoodNet, has released their most recent report. This report provides a...
May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang
At Your Service: CDC’s Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence Provide Guidance...
By Elizabeth Pace, Public Health Advisor, Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention If...
Jan 27, 2016 | Katie Regan
NACCHO Resources to Address the Recommendations in the “Outbreaks: Protecting...
On December 17, the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released their annual report on the state of...
Dec 17, 2015 | Sara Chang
CDC Launches Redesigned Foodborne Outbreak Tool
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) redesigned an online tool that makes it easier to search data on foodborne...
Oct 30, 2015 | Katie Regan
CIFOR Guidelines and Toolkit Implementation Webinar Series
Two upcoming webinars, one for managers and directors of local and state environmental and public health departments (the decision...
Sep 14, 2015 | Katie Regan
Improving Hand Hygiene through Innovative Campaign Advertising and Community OutreachBy: Kyle Foerst, M.S., Emergency Response Planner, Saint Louis County Department of Public Health Seasonal influenza occurs annually and can cause mild to severe illness, which can lead to hospitalizations and even death. Certain groups, such as elderly people, young children, and people with health conditions like heart disease, asthma, or weakened immune systems have a […] Oct 20, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
The CIFOR Toolkit: A Powerful Training Resource Advancing Foodborne Outbreak ResponseBy Scott E. Holmes, REHS, MS, Environmental Public Health Manager, Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department What do you get when you bring together over 60 public health professionals specializing in environmental health, epidemiology, and laboratory sciences, representing 15 different local and state agencies to discuss how to improve foodborne outbreak response in Nebraska? A major “reboot”... Oct 06, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
CDC Awards New Antibiotic Resistance and Food Safety Funds to Health DepartmentsThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is awarding $30 million to state and local health departments supporting their efforts of tracking, investigating and preventing foodborne illness. Grant recipients will receive training for and access to advanced technology, including whole genome sequencers to improve detection and surveillance for antibiotic-resistance intestinal bacteria.... Aug 04, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
New Food Safety Performance Measurement ToolThe Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) recently released a new data entry tool to support state and local health departments and partner agencies in measuring their food safety progress. In collaboration with the Minnesota Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence (CoE) and CoE Metrics Work Group, and through a contract managed by the Association of Public […] Jul 19, 2016 | Anastasia Sonneman |
Foodborne Illness TrendsThe CDC’s Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network, FoodNet, has released their most recent report. This report provides a preliminary 2015 data on the nine most common germs spread through food. Overall, the progress in reducing rates of foodborne illnesses has been limited since 2012 and the most frequent causes of infection in 2015 were Salmonella and Campylobacter. […] May 02, 2016 | Amy Chang |
At Your Service: CDC’s Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence Provide Guidance and Resources for Local and State Health DepartmentsBy Elizabeth Pace, Public Health Advisor, Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention If your New Year’s resolution is to improve your health department’s foodborne illness investigations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoEs) can help. The CoEs were established under the […] Jan 27, 2016 | Katie Regan |
NACCHO Resources to Address the Recommendations in the “Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases” ReportOn December 17, the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released their annual report on the state of prevention and control of infectious disease outbreaks in the United States. Outbreaks: Protecting Americans from Infectious Diseases analyzes the country’s policies related to ongoing and emerging infectious disease threats and provides recommendations to […] Dec 17, 2015 | Sara Chang |
CDC Launches Redesigned Foodborne Outbreak ToolThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) redesigned an online tool that makes it easier to search data on foodborne disease outbreaks. CDC estimates that 1 in 6 Americans suffer foodborne illness every year. The Foodborne Outbreak Online Database Tool (FOOD Tool) includes interactive features such as maps, graphs, and tables. Users can search […] Oct 30, 2015 | Katie Regan |
CIFOR Guidelines and Toolkit Implementation Webinar SeriesTwo upcoming webinars, one for managers and directors of local and state environmental and public health departments (the decision makers) and one for public health professionals responsible for the investigation and control of foodborne diseases and outbreaks (the worker bees), will describe the CIFOR Guidelines, Toolkit, and other available resources to improve foodborne disease outbreak... Sep 14, 2015 | Katie Regan |
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