Environmental Health Specialist Network

环境健康专家网络

• 批准号: 9315567
• 负责人: Kirk Smith
• 金额: $ 19.25万
• 依托单位: MINNESOTA STATE DEPT OF HEALTH
• 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/9315567
• 关键词: Environmental; Health; Specialist; Network

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of the proposed work is to reduce foodborne illness associated with commercial food establishments in Minnesota and the entire U.S. Specific aims are to: 1) increase and improve environmental assessments conducted during foodborne illness outbreak investigations; 2) identify contributing factors and antecedents factors associated with foodborne illness outbreaks; 3) identify and understand environmental factors associated with sporadic foodborne illness through special studies; 4) evaluate food safety programs in Minnesota; 5) synthesize and disseminate the findings from EHS-Net research projects to the environmental health community and the food service industry; and, 6) develop, implement, and evaluate interventions at commercial food establishments that will reduce the incidence of foodborne illness. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has been a leader and active participant in EHS-Net since its inception and proposes to continue EHS-Net involvement in the same fashion going forward. Environmental health specialists from the MDH Division of Environmental Health and epidemiologists from the MDH Foodborne, Waterborne, Vector borne, and Zoonotic Diseases Section will continue to comprise the MDH EHS- Net team and will work closely together to conduct EHS-Net activities. Active population-based surveillance for reportable bacterial and protozoal pathogens will be conducted, along with state-of the art outbreak detection and investigation. Environmental assessments will be conducted on all foodborne outbreaks in commercial food establishments in Minnesota using standard tools to allow collection of high quality data for the National Voluntary Environmental Assessment Information System [NVEAIS]. Special studies to identify practices, behaviors, or other risk factors that lead to sporadic foodborne illness will be conducted at random samples of restaurants in previously selected sampling frameworks. Another proposed project is to synthesize all previous EHS-Network and disseminate it to target audiences in an effective format. Finally, a major part of our proposed ongoing work will be to use data and lessons learned from past EHS-Net activities to develop, implement, and evaluate interventions at commercial food establishments. MDH will continue to build communication and collaborations with EHS-Net partners (other states, CDC, FDA, and EPA) and will actively participate in multi-site studies decided on by the EHS-Net Steering Committee. Education of environmental health specialists and industry groups throughout Minnesota, based on lessons learned from EHS-Net, will continue to be actively pursued.

 描述（由适用提供）：拟议工作的长期目标是减少与明尼苏达州的商业食品机构相关的食源性疾病，而美国整个美国的具体目标是：1）增加和改善在食源性疾病爆发期间进行的环境评估； 2）确定与食源性疾病暴发相关的因素和前因因素； 3）通过特殊研究确定并了解与零星食源性疾病相关的环境因素； 4）评估明尼苏达州的食品安全计划； 5）将EHS-NET研究项目中的发现综合并传播到环境卫生社区和食品服务行业； 6）在商业食品机构中开发，实施和评估将减少食源性疾病发生率的干预措施。明尼苏达州卫生部（MDH）自成立以来一直是EHS-NET的领导者和积极参与者，并提出以与未来相同的方式继续参与EHS-NET的提议。 MDH环境卫生部的环境卫生专家和MDH Foodborne，Waterborne，Vector Borne和Woonotic Disoases部门的流行病学家将继续建立MDH EHS-NET团队，并将紧密合作，以进行EHS-NET活动。将对可报告细菌和原生动物病原体的主动监测以及最新的爆发爆发和投资进行。将使用标准工具对明尼苏达州商业食品机构的所有粮食爆发进行环境评估，以允许为国家自愿性环境评估信息系统[NVEAIS]收集高质量的数据。在先前选择的采样框架中，将在餐馆的随机样本中进行识别的实践，行为或其他危险因素的特殊研究。另一个提议的项目是将所有以前的EHS网络综合，并将其传播到有效格式的目标受众。最后，我们拟议的正在进行的工作的主要部分是使用从过去的EHS-NET活动中学到的数据和经验教训来开发，实施和评估商业食品机构的干预措施。 MDH将继续与EHS-NET合作伙伴（其他州，CDC，FDA和EPA）建立沟通和合作，并将积极参与由EHS-NET指导委员会决定的多站点研究。基于从EHS-NET中学到的教训，对环境卫生专家和行业团体的教育将继续积极追求。