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Prioritizing Opportunities to Reduce
Foodborne Disease
Project Collaborators and Contacts
This project lead is Helen Jensen at Iowa State University with participation from researchers at Resources for the Future, University of California, Davis, University of Maryland, University of Georgia, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Michigan State University.
A complete list of participating institutions and contact information on the project can be found on the Iowa State University website.
Funding and Timeline
This project is being supported by a grant from USDA’s Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) National Integrated Food Safety Initiative and is expected to culminate with a national stakeholder conference in the fall of 2005.
Publications
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Prioritizing Opportunities to Reduce Foodborne Risk
This "Backgrounder" provides an overview of the project, its goals, and involved FSRC institutions and researchers.
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Constructing the Analytical Tools for a Systems and
Risk-Based Approach to Food Safety
This "Framework Paper" provides thinking on a conceptual framework for an integrated, systems approach to food safety to reduce risk that will be refined over the life of the project through input of stakeholders and experts in workshops and conferences.
- Papers/Proceedings from Workshops 1, 2, and 3
Events
- National Conference: Presentation of Proposed
Priority-Setting Framework to National Stakeholders and Experts
(September 14, 2005, Washington, DC)
The national conference will serve as the culmination of the project by bringing researchers and stakeholders together to review the refined conceptual framework. -
Workshop 3: Post-hoc Evaluative Tools (April
26-27
2005, Athens, GA)
This workshop explored how disease surveillance and other tools can contribute to understanding risk and the effectiveness of efforts to reduce risk, thereby better linking priority setting and intervention strategies to relevant health outcomes.
Agenda and Presentations -
Workshop 2: Economic
Measures of Interventions
(December 1-2, 2004, Amherst, MA)
This workshop focused on measuring the costs and benefits of interventions and identifying ways to integrate economic information into the food safety priority-setting tools.
Agenda and Presentations -
Workshop 1:
Risk Modeling Approaches and Case Studies (June 16-17, 2004,
Ames, IA)
This workshop reviewed alternative risk assessment and predictive modeling methods and used case studies to examine the systems and interventions used in selected food production and marketing systems.
Agenda and Presentations - Videoconference – February 6, 2004.
The project team invited a small group of experts to comment on the concept paper and provide guidance on the development of the conceptual framework. - Stakeholder Project Briefing – February 2, 2004
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