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Food Safety Resources

Foodborne Outbreak Investigation Online Series

The Foodborne Outbreak Investigation Online Series (FOIS) is an online self-paced training that that teaches professionals how to respond to a foodborne illness outbreak efficiently and effectively by understanding the roles and responsibilities of the disciplines involved: epidemiology, laboratory, and environmental health.

Interview Training

Our interview training is an online facilitated training that covers interviewing best practices, strategies for effective interviews, collecting exposure histories and examples of interviewing in outbreak settings.

REDCap Videos (Research Electronic Data Capture)

Our REDCap quick-train videos are designed to be taken by those users new to REDCap and cover topics a variety of topics including: creating and disseminating surveys, creating data entry forms, adding users and more!

Tailored Resources

To learn more about any of our custom consultations and tailored resources, please send an email to tnfood.safetycoe@tn.gov detailing what you are looking for in your jurisdiction.

CIFOR Needs Assessment

Using the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response’s toolkit, the TN Food Safety CoE will familiarize your agency with the CIFOR guidelines and assess current foodborne disease outbreak response activities in your jurisdiction to help identify specific activities and procedures needing improvement in the areas of: planning and preparation, surveillance and outbreak detection, investigation of outbreaks and clusters and control measures. The TN CoE will then work with your jurisdiction and make implementation plans for newly updated activities and procedures. A CIFOR needs assessment is designed for local, regional, and state public health departments working in foodborne disease outbreak response.

Peer-to-Peer Exchange

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) exchanges bring together subject matter experts to share their experiences and build on one another’s successes and challenges to achieve collective and continuous growth. These exchanges leverage opportunities created when several states request similar support, want to hear what other states are doing, or to partner across states to address shared challenges. The TN Food Safety CoE’s peer-to-peer program is an exchange where our regional state health departments send 2-3 team members to the TN Department of Health’s central office in Nashville, TN for a day and a half of presentations and discussions on topic areas identified by all partners involved.

Previous topics areas discussed during peer-to-peer exchanges include data modernization, visualization, and automation, cluster detection and investigation, surveillance systems and informatics, and Data System Integration with NBS.

The peer-to-peer program is funded by ELC and coordinated yearly. If your state health department is interested in this opportunity, please notify TN CoE members at your state’s yearly check-in meeting.

Tailored Consultations

A general consultation is a great option for jurisdictions who are interested in working with the TN Food Safety CoE that might not know what resource would be the most beneficial for their health department. After meeting with your jurisdiction, the TN CoE will put together a plan to address your food safety investigation needs through tools, resources and trainings developed by the Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence. Tailored consultations are designed for local, regional, and state public health departments working in foodborne disease outbreak response.

Site Visit

The TN Food Safety CoE conducts site visits for jurisdictions looking to bring subject matter experts (SME) from the TN Department of Health to their health department to address your jurisdictions specific food safety needs. After meeting with your jurisdiction to identify topic areas of interest for the site visit, the TN CoE will send SMEs to your jurisdiction for 1-2 days to address needs identified by your health department by observing your local food safety systems and practices. A site visit is designed for local, regional, and state public health departments working in foodborne disease outbreak response. If you are interested in this opportunity, please notify the TN CoE members at your state’s yearly check-in meeting.