California Envirnomental Health Specialist Network

EHS-Net的目标是通过加强州和地方环境卫生计划和专业人员的能力来帮助州卫生部门改善环境卫生计划服务的提供，以预测，识别，评估和应对有意和无意的食品和供水污染。 实现这一目标的机制是建立一个环境卫生专家网络，与环境卫生方案工作人员、传染病方案工作人员、流行病学家以及州和地方各级的实验室工作人员合作，以确定和预防导致食源性和水媒疾病和疾病爆发的环境因素。 加州EHS网络项目将继续进行研究，以确定餐馆食源性疾病的环境前因，并将扩大该项目，包括饮用水安全以及食品安全的其他方面。 此外，加州EHS网络项目将与其他EHS网络州合作，开展专门的研究。 参与县（见下文“绩效地点”）的环境卫生和传染病工作人员将协助这些研究项目，包括数据收集方法、数据收集和分析以及研究结果的出版。 加州EHS网络项目将用于实现疾病控制和预防中心、国家环境卫生中心的以下目标：“提高州和地方卫生部门在社区提供环境卫生服务的能力。“为了实现这一目标，加州将继续与环境卫生专家、流行病学家、公共卫生和传染病专家、实验室工作人员、公共卫生教育工作者以及国家、州和地方各级的专职人员建立新的伙伴关系，并加强现有的伙伴关系。这些伙伴关系将提高地方机构进行食源性和水传播疾病暴发调查和环境监测活动的能力。

Description (provided by Applicant): The objective of EHS-Net is to assist State health departments in improving the delivery of environmental health program services by strengthening the ability of State and local environmental health programs and professionals to anticipate, identify, evaluate and respond to both intentional and unintentional contamination of the food and water supply. The mechanism to achieve this purpose is the establishment of a network of Environmental Health Specialists (EHS) who collaborate with environmental health program staff, communicable disease program staff, epidemiologists, and laboratorians at the State and local levels to identify and prevent environmental factors that contribute to food borne and waterborne illness and disease outbreaks. The California EHS-Net project will continue on-going research to identify environmental antecedents to foodborne illness at restaurants, and will expand the project to include drinking water safety as well as other aspects of food safety. In addition, the California EHS-Net project will collaborate with other EHS-Net states to develop special research studies. Environmental health and communicable disease staff in the participating Counties (indicated in "Performance Sites" below) will assist with these research projects, including the methodology for data collection, the collection and analysis of the data, and the publication of the study results. The California EHS-Net project will be utilized to achieve the following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health objective: "increase the capacity of state and local health departments to deliver environmental health services in the community." To fulfill this objective, California will continue to build new and strengthen existing partnerships with environmental health specialists, epidemiologists, public health and infectious disease specialists, laboratory staff, public health educators, and allied professionals at the national, State, and local levels. These partnerships will enhance the ability of local agencies to conduct foodborne and waterborne outbreak investigations and environmental surveillance activities.