Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) - Practice Based Research to Improve Food Safety in New York State

环境健康专家网络 (EHS-Net) - 基于实践的研究，以改善纽约州的食品安全

• 批准号: 9525606
• 负责人: DEBRA S. BLOG
• 金额: $ 19.25万
• 依托单位: NYSDOH/HEALTH RESEARCH, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-30 至 2020-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9525606
• 关键词: Environmental; Health; Specialists; Network; EHS

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) has been a leader in protecting and advancing the health of New Yorkers through a comprehensive network of public health activities and services. The complexity of the state, from densely populated urban, to rural and suburban areas, the diversity of the state with respect to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, warrants a public health system that is comprehensive and flexible to govern the state's public health successfully. Since the EHS-Net's inception in 2000, there have been a number of critical barriers to overcome. In regards to foodborne outbreak situations and environmental assessments, the geographic size of NYS can be challenging when coordinating a rapid and effective response. Over the past number of years, some state and local departments have experienced as much as a 30% reduction in staff due to retirements and attrition. To overcome these barriers, in part, the specific aims of this project involves engaging and strengthening the partnership with other State and local partners from environmental health, disease surveillance and laboratory authorities to improve environmental assessment data collection and foodborne disease outbreak investigations, establish and implement program evaluations and compare to national standards and disseminate educational materials to the public through a variety of mechanisms. This will allow Local Health Departments (LHDs) and State personnel from numerous agencies to apply best practices and interventions using national standards and new forms of technology identified by EHS-Net, the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR), Centers of Excellence and other Rapid Response Teams (RRT) to improve the overall health and safety of New Yorkers. The nature of outbreaks and investigations has changed considerably with the implementation of new laboratory techniques such as pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS). Sporadic cases of illness across many jurisdictions can now be linked to a common source by using PFGE technology and WGS, the complete DNA make-up of an organism can be determined to enable us to better understand variations both within and between species. These new technologies, including computerized sharing of information, will allow us to perform basic foodborne pathogen identification during foodborne illness outbreaks and apply it in novel ways that have the potential to help reduce foodborne illness. The use of these technologies and our collaboration across programs will improve investigations of illness clusters or outbreaks.

 描述（由适用提供）：纽约州卫生部（NYSDOH）一直是通过全面的公共卫生活动和服务网络来保护和推动纽约人健康的领导者。从人口稠密的城市，到郊区和郊区的国家，国家在种族，种族和社会经济地位方面的多样性，保证了一个全面且灵活地成功管理国家公共卫生的公共卫生系统。自EHS-NET于2000年成立以来，已经存在许多关键的障碍。关于食源性爆发情况和环境评估，在协调快速有效的反应时，纽约州的地理规模可能会受到质疑。在过去的几年中，某些州和地方部门因克服这些障碍而经历了30％的员工降低，部分原因是，该项目的具体目标涉及并加强与其他州和地方伙伴的合作关系，从环境健康，疾病培训和实验室机构中的疾病和实验室机构的分散评估和进取的疾病爆发和进取的疾病爆发，并实施了疾病的临时，并促进了对环境健康的疾病和实施措施，并促进了对国家的爆发和进取的措施。通过多种机制。这将允许来自众多机构的地方卫生部门（LHD）和国家人员使用EHS-NET确定的国家标准和新形式的技术采用最佳实践和干预措施，该理事会是改善卓越中心，卓越中心和其他快速响应团队（RRT）（RRT）（RRT）来改善新约克人的整体健康和安全。随着新实验室技术的实施，例如脉冲场凝胶电泳（PFGE）和整个基因组测序（WGS），爆发和研究的性质已仔细地改变了。现在，通过使用PFGE技术和WGS，可以将许多司法管辖区的零星病例与共同来源联系起来，可以确定有机体的完整DNA组成，使我们能够更好地了解物种内部和物种之间的变化。这些新技术，包括计算机化的信息，将使我们能够在食源性疾病暴发期间进行基本的食源性病原体鉴定，并以新颖的方式应用它，有可能帮助减少食源性疾病。这些技术的使用以及我们跨计划的合作将改善对疾病簇或暴发的调查。