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)--以实践为基础的研究 改善纽约州的食品安全 RFA-EH-20-001 项目摘要/摘要 纽约州卫生局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，为纽约人提供服务。这个 国家的复杂性，从人口稠密的城市，到农村和郊区，多样性 国家在种族、民族和社会经济地位方面的地位，需要公共健康 全面而灵活的制度，成功地治理国家公共卫生。 自2000年EHS-Net成立以来，有许多关键障碍需要克服。 关于食源性暴发情况和环境评估， 在协调快速有效的反应时，纽约可能是具有挑战性的。在过去的数字中 多年来，一些州和地方部门经历了高达30%的裁员 由于退休和自然减员。为了克服这些障碍，在一定程度上，这个项目的具体目标 包括接触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，并向 通过各种机制向公众开放。这将允许当地卫生部门和州政府 来自多个机构的人员应用最佳做法和干预措施 EHS-Net确定的标准和新形式的技术，改善食源性 疫情响应(CIFOR)；英才中心和其他快速反应小组(RRT) 以改善纽约人的整体健康和安全。 疫情和调查的性质随着实施 脉冲场凝胶电泳(PFGE)和全基因组等实验室新技术 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的共同来源，即生物体的完整DNA组成 可以被确定为使我们能够更好地理解物种内和物种之间的差异。 这些新技术，包括计算机化的信息共享，将使我们能够 食源性疾病暴发期间食源性致病菌的基本鉴定及其在小说中的应用 有可能帮助减少食源性疾病的方法。这些技术的使用和 我们在各个项目上的合作将改善对疾病聚集性或疫情的调查。

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.