Epi-Ready Workshop Learning Objectives

Workshop Learning Objectives

At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe the desirable skills and knowledge available through a foodborne disease outbreak investigation and control team.

• Recognize a possible foodborne outbreak through reports to a notification/complaint system or pathogen-specific surveillance.

• Generate hypotheses about the source of an outbreak using information on causative agents, the implicated facility, the descriptive epidemiology of cases, and case interviews.

• Describe how the contributing factors in an outbreak are related to the causative agent, the suspect food, and food preparation setting.

• Explain terms used in epidemiology such as case-control and cohort study, relative risk, odds ratio, and measure of association.

• List important considerations in the collection and submission of clinical and food specimens to the laboratory.

• Identify ways to improve communications between members of the outbreak investigation team.

EPi-Ready Workshop Learning ObjectiveS (PDF)