Kirk Smith MN, Carina Blackmore FL, John Dunn TN,Alicia Cronquist CO, Bill Keene OR

Dale Morse & Don Sharp CDC

CSTE Annual MeetingJune 12, 2013

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases

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

illness surveillance and outbreak response

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

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

Center Site Collaborations Health

DepartmentAcademic Partner(s)

Points of Contact

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Colorado School of Public Health (UC, UD, CSU)

Alicia CronquistElaine Scallan

Florida Department of Health

University of Florida Carina BlackmoreGlenn Morris

Minnesota Department of Health

University of Minnesota Kirk SmithCraig Hedberg

Oregon Public Health Division

Oregon Health Sciences Center University of Minnesota

Bill KeeneKevin WinthropCraig Hedberg

Tennessee Department of Health

University of Tennessee John DunnSharon ThompsonFaith CritzerPaul Erwin

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…”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Center Websitewww.cdc.gov/foodsafety/centers/ind

ex.html

About the Centers

Center Sites

Flash

FAQs

Resources Press Releases

CoE Workgroups and lead Center

Academic coordination (Florida) Training/workforce development

(Colorado) Communications/website (Tennessee) Performance indicators/metrics

(Minnesota) Research issues (Oregon)

For more information please contact Centers for Disease Control and Prevention1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333Telephone, 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348E-mail: cdcinfo@cdc.gov Web: www.cdc.gov

The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/centers

Questions??

Thank you!

Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases