Subcommittee Chair: Kirk Smith, DVM, PhD, MS (MN)
The Enteric Disease Subcommittee comprises public health professionals dedicated to building epidemiology capacity for the detection and prevention of illness due to enteric pathogens from foodborne, waterborne, and zoonotic transmission routes. The Subcommittee holds periodic conference calls and webinars to support a forum for information sharing between state, territorial, local, and tribal (STLT) public health practitioners and with national partners, including the CDC. The Subcommittee supports the development of enteric disease position statements and briefs, national assessments, and other resources.
In addition to supporting the Subcommittee, CSTE co-chairs the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak and Response (CIFOR), a multidisciplinary collaboration of diverse national associations and federal agencies whose goal is to improve methods at the local, state, and federal levels to detect, investigate, control, and prevent foodborne disease outbreaks. As a founding member of CIFOR, CSTE works to identify barriers to rapid, accurate detection and investigation of foodborne disease outbreaks. CSTE proposes projects to address these barriers, notably those that impede epidemiologic response to foodborne illness. For more information about CIFOR, contact info@cifor.us. For more information about the Enteric Diseases Subcommittee and their activities, please contact Rachael Singer. Click here to view other Infectious Disease Steering Committee activities.
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