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: 10259642
• 负责人: David Nicholas
• 金额: $ 19.26万
• 依托单位: NYSDOH/HEALTH RESEARCH, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-30 至 2025-09-29
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10259642
• 关键词: Environmental; Health; Specialists; Network; EHS

Environmental Health Specialists Network (EHS-Net) – Practice Based Research to Improve Food Safety in New York State RFA-EH-20-001 Project Summary/Abstract The New York State Department of Health 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 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); and 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.

环境卫生专家网络（EHS网络）-基于实践的研究， 改善纽约州的食品安全 RFA-EH-20-001 项目总结/摘要 纽约州卫生部一直是保护和促进健康的领导者 通过一个全面的公共卫生活动和服务网络，的 国家的复杂性，从人口稠密的城市，到农村和郊区， 国家在种族，民族和社会经济地位方面的地位，保证了公共健康 这是一个全面和灵活的制度，以成功地管理国家的公共卫生。 自2000年EHS网络启动以来，有许多关键障碍需要克服。 关于食源性疫情和环境评估， 纽约州在协调快速有效的反应时可能具有挑战性。在过去的数 多年来，一些州和地方部门的工作人员减少了30 因为退休和自然减员为了克服这些障碍，该项目的具体目标 涉及参与和加强与其他国家和地方合作伙伴的伙伴关系， 环境卫生，疾病监测和实验室当局，以改善环境 评估数据收集和食源性疾病暴发调查，建立和实施 计划评估并与国家标准进行比较，并分发教育材料， 通过各种机制向公众开放。这将使当地卫生部门和国家 来自许多机构的人员，利用国家 标准和新形式的技术确定的EHS网络，理事会，以改善食品 爆发反应中心;英才中心和其他快速反应小组 改善纽约市民的整体健康和安全。 随着《2000年世界卫生组织疾病控制框架》的实施， 新的实验室技术，如脉冲场凝胶电泳（PFGE）和全基因组 测序（WGS）。许多司法管辖区的零星病例现在可以与 使用PFGE技术和WGS（生物体的完整DNA组成）的共同来源 可以使我们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共享，将使我们能够执行 食源性疾病暴发期间的基本食源性病原体鉴定，并将其应用于新型 有可能帮助减少食源性疾病的方法。这些技术的使用和 我们的跨方案合作将改善对疾病集群或疫情的调查。