How would You Like Your Burger?
New Developments in Foodborne Disease Outbreak Detection and Investigation This webcast originally took place live on Friday, April 23rd @ 12:00pm (Central) It is now archived for convenient viewing at any time Goal: To bring the audience up-to-date with developments and prospects for the fields of foodborne disease epidemiology and microbiology. A special focus will be given to pathogen discovery. Objectives: • Understand why, in the age of Novel H1N1, extreme TB, and drug resistant Staph we should be concerned about foodborne and diarrheal diseases. • Describe what is known and what is not known about the etiology of human foodborne and diarrheal disease. Speaker: John Besser has been the Deputy Chief of the Enteric Diseases Laboratory Branch at the CDC since July 2009, where he has been involved in national and global programs to detect, characterize, and track enteric infectious diseases. Between 1990 and 2009 he managed the Clinical Laboratory at the Minnesota Department of Health, where he directed infectious disease activities and presided over the development of numerous innovative laboratory-based surveillance programs. From 1985 to 1990 he served as a clinical microbiologist at the University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics. He has been actively involved in development of PulseNet, and serves on committees and workgroups for the Association of Public Health Laboratories, Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR), American Society for Microbiology, and CDC. John received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is author or coauthor of over 85 journal articles, published abstracts, and book chapters, including a chapter in the ASM Manual of Clinical Microbiology.
Grand Rounds - Foodborne Disease: Finding the Common Thread (Archive)
Advances in molecular epidemiology have dramatically enhanced our ability to detect and fix problems in our food and water supplies that formerly would have gone unnoticed. Recent outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 and Salmonella spp. associated with fresh produce are good examples. In spite of these advances, the burden of foodborne and diarrheal disease remains substantial, both nationally and globally. John Besser, Manager of the Clinical Laboratory at the Minnesota Department of Health, will discuss and focus on systems used to detect and investigate problems in the food supply.
Public Health Impacts of Industrial Food Animal Production
Ellen K. Silbergeld, Ph.D., is a professor of environmental health sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. In this presentation she discusses current information on the public health impacts associated with methods of intensive food animal production. Original Presentation Date: 04/23/2008