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Building capacity in local and state health departments across the southeast to prevent and rapidly respond to foodborne illness outbreaks

Who We Are

The Tennessee Integrated Food Safety Center of Excellence serves as a peer resource and subject matter expert for state and local public health partners. We provide support through a range of actvities:

  • Development of investigation tools
  • Development of case studies
  • Development of guidance documents
  • Formal peer-to-peer facilitation (see Southeast Annual P2P Symposium)
  • Informal partnership liaisons – if you don’t know where to start reach out to us and we can help you connect with the right people.
  • Food safety community building
  • Health communication assistance (e.g. messaging and public facing prevention efforts)
  • Internal team communication
  • External partner communication

The Tennessee Food Safety CoE has collaborated on and led several analytics projects that have increased our knowledge of the food safety landscape from the workforce to genomic trends.

  • Perspectives of Enteric Disease Epidemiologist at State  Public Health Agencies, United States, 2023
  • Tailored consultations (e.g. assistances with tools and software)
  • Subject matter expertise in epidemiology, environmental health, and laboratory response
  • Cluster and outbreak investigation assistance (See Just-in-Time Training)
  • Outbreak Teaming Training
  • Foodborne Interview Training
  • Train-the-Trainer
  • Environmental Assessment and Sampling Training
  • Case Studies and Tableop Exercises

In the effort to build a the future food safety workforce the TN Food Safety CoE provides experiences for:

  • Student Interns (8 week internship)
  • Graduate Assistantships
  • Student practicums
  • Graduate level food safety courses

Serving the Southeastern Region

The Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence program was established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Tennessee is one of five existing regional centers in Colorado, Minnesota, New York, and Washington.

We primarily serve southeastern region state and local health department staff include Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 

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