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Epi-Ready Team Training
Epi-Ready Team Training: Foodborne Illness Response Strategies
What Is Epi-Ready?
Developed in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Epi-Ready is a two-day in-person workshop for environmental and public health professionals with responsibility for investigation of foodborne illness outbreaks. With a team-based approach to training, Epi-Ready focuses on how to efficiently and effectively respond to an outbreak by understanding the roles and responsibilities of the disciplines involved—using the analogy of the 3-legged stool.
The Epi-Ready 3-legged stool represents a collaboration between the three disciplines involved in a foodborne illness investigation, environmental health specialists/sanitarians, epidemiologists and laboratory staff. Epi-Ready gives your team the tools and training to prevent a foodborne illness outbreak before it occurs.
- Workshop content is designed to follow the Council to Improve Foodborne Outbreak Response (CIFOR) Guidelines.
- Topics are covered through a combination of lecture, question and answer sessions, interactive group exercises and final case study.
For more information on Epi-Ready Team Training, please contact programs@neha.org.
Outbreak Response… Is Your Team Ready?
Reasons to Host an Epi-Ready Workshop on Foodborne Illness Response Strategies
- Proactive training for teams before an incident occurs
- Clear lines of communication and responsibilities within departments
- Improved collaboration between organizations and disciplines
- Reduced response time
- Staff and community confidence of having a well-trained team in place
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