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Integrated Food Safety Centers of
Excellence: Building state and local
capacity for foodborne illness
surveillance and outbreak response
Kirk Smith MN, Carina Blackmore FL, John Dunn TN,
Alicia Cronquist CO, Bill Keene OR
Dale Morse & Don Sharp CDC
CSTE Annual Meeting
June 12, 2013
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases
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
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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
Department
Academic Partner(s)
Points of
Contact
Colorado Department
of Public Health and
Environment
Colorado School of Public
Health (UC, UD, CSU)
Alicia Cronquist
Elaine Scallan
Florida Department of
Health
University of Florida
Carina Blackmore
Glenn Morris
Minnesota Department
of Health
University of Minnesota
Kirk Smith
Craig Hedberg
Oregon Public Health
Division
Oregon Health Sciences
Center
University of Minnesota
Bill Keene
Kevin Winthrop
Craig Hedberg
Tennessee Department
of Health
University of Tennessee
John Dunn
Sharon Thompson
Faith Critzer
Paul 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.
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Conduct systems evaluations
using the CIFOR
Guidelines/Toolkit
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MN: assist states or LHD
during outbreaks
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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.
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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.
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FL and CO are conducting pilot training
needs assessment surveys
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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
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Not currently funded
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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.
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Evaluating illness complaint
reporting systems
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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.
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Creating Center websites
and standardized “design
elements”
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Developing research
agenda for outside funding
Center Website
www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/centers/index.html
About
the
Centers
Flash
Center
Sites
FAQs
Resources
Press Releases
CoE Workgroups and lead Center
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Academic coordination (Florida)
Training/workforce development (Colorado)
Communications/website (Tennessee)
Performance indicators/metrics (Minnesota)
Research issues (Oregon)
http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/centers
Questions??
Thank you!
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Prevention
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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.
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases