AEC Conference Support 5 year

项目总结/摘要 国家环境健康协会（NEHA），一个501（c）3非营利组织，很高兴 向美国食品和药物管理局（FDA）提交资金援助申请 支持会议和科学会议（不允许进行R13临床试验），FOA编号：PAR- 19-306. NEHA年度教育会议（AEC）和展览于1937年6月25日首次举行， 从那时起，在北美召开了85次AEC会议，包括夏威夷、阿拉斯加、罗得岛， 和加拿大AEC旨在培训，教育和促进环境卫生专业人员 通过提供建立同事网络，交换信息，发现新的，最好的， 以及食品安全和其他环境健康问题的实际解决方案。AEC汇集了 超过1,400个州、地方、部落、领土和联邦环境卫生和公共卫生 卫生和环境保护机构以及私营部门的专业人员， 学术界、军警部门和国际司法管辖区。AEC提供了一种方法， 将基于实地的研究转化为零售食品安全的行动，符合程序标准， 食源性疫情预防、数据和技术、应急准备等等。像 许多其他人，NEHA过渡到一个混合格式在最近几年的必要性，但我们有 继续虚拟部分，因为我们致力于小，农村和边境环境 健康计划，否则无法旅行。 FDA法规事务办公室的愿景是“所有食品都是安全的...... 是先进的和受保护的”，以及其使命，以保护消费者和提高公众健康， 最大限度地提高合规性并最大限度地降低风险，这符合我们的使命，即建立、维持和增强 有效的环境卫生工作队伍。这两项任务都体现在原子能委员会中。 我们请求提供资金援助，以发展、管理和开展AEC。NEHA预计， 今后5年每年的估计费用为75万至85万美元，并要求提供资金， 抵消提供高质量教育所需的虚拟平台和视听成本， 环境卫生专业人员的当前和不断变化的需求，他们可以亲自参加， 远程参与的人。

Project Summary/Abstract The National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, is pleased to submit an application for funding assistance under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (R13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed), FOA Number: PAR- 19-306. The NEHA Annual Educational Conference (AEC) & Exhibition was first held on June 25, 1937, and there have since been 85 AECs convened in North America, including Hawaii, Alaska, Rhode Island, and Canada. The AEC is designed to train, educate, and advance environmental health professionals by providing the means to build a network of colleagues, exchange information, and discover new, best, and practical solutions to food safety and other environmental health issues. The AEC brings together over 1,400 state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal environmental health and public health professionals from health and environmental protection agencies, as well as from the private sector, academia, the uniformed services, and international jurisdictions. The AEC provides a means to translate field-based research into action on retail food safety, program standards conformance, foodborne outbreak prevention, data and technology, emergency preparedness, and much more. Like many others, NEHA transitioned to a hybrid format in recent years out of necessity, yet we have continued the virtual component because of our commitment to small, rural and frontier environmental health programs that are otherwise unable to travel. The vision of the Office of Regulatory Affairs within FDA is that “all food is safe…and the public health is advanced and protected,” as well as its mission to protect consumers and enhance public health by maximizing compliance and minimizing risk, aligns with our mission to build, sustain, and empower an effective environmental health workforce. Both missions are embodied in the AEC. We request funding assistance to develop, administer, and conduct the AEC. NEHA anticipates an annual estimated cost of $750,000–$850,000 per year over the next 5 years and requests funding to off-set the virtual platform and audio/visual costs necessary to provide high-quality education to meet the current and evolving needs of environmental health professionals who can attend in person and those participating remotely.